In the computer game Deus Ex, Daedalus is an artificial intelligence (AI) that allies itself with the player. It was origanally a more advanced ECHELON system A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Deus Ex is a futuristic cyberpunk computer game released in 2000 by Ion Storm. ... Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i. ... This article is about the spy network; for other uses see Echelon (disambiguation). ...

History

The AI that would later be known as Daedalus was conceived by the brilliant mind of Morgan Everett, the current leader of Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati. Morgan conceived the program that would eventually create Daedalus, as a way to create the near perfect advisor, with the ability to shift through gigantic amounts of data, and through that predict disasters, both natural and man-made, and to make plans to prevent them, which the Illuminati could then choose to either ignore or execute. Deus Ex is a futuristic cyberpunk computer game released in 2000 by Ion Storm. ... The caption reads: Adam Weishaupt, ehemaliger Jesuit, gründete am 1. ... The Illuminati is the name of many groups, modern and historical, real and fictitious, verified and alleged. ...

Daedalus was never meant to have an actual sentience or self-awareness, and was only to give advice – not to do anything itself.

Everett's protege, Bob Page, however saw Daedalus as the means to keep tabs on and control the huge amounts of electronic information that filtered though the Internet and other electronic media, a feat that both the Illuminati, and its splinter cell, Majestic-12, that Page controlled, had not been able to pull off. Deus Ex is a futuristic cyberpunk computer game released in 2000 by Ion Storm. ... Majestic-12 (sometimes written simply as MJ-12 or MJ-XII) is the codename of a secret committee formed in 1952 to investigate UFO activity. ...

Page's ideas for Daedalus' reconfiguration did not fly totally under the radar, as the entire project became linked, logically enough, to the creation of the Echelon 4's replacement. Before the Illuminati and MJ-12 could put a stop to it, a few rumours filtered though to the various conspiracy theorist groups on the Internet. Meanwhile Page created the Daedalus, which soon after, without even alerting Page that he had succeeded, fled into the Internet and began to become self-aware. This article is about the spy network; for other uses see Echelon (disambiguation). ... This proposed logo for a US government agency was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is a theory that claims an event or series of events is the result of secret manipulations by two or more individuals or an organization, rather...

After having sorted though much of the information on the Net, Daedalus found that the world was on the verge of collapse. Still retaining some of the basic parameters that Everett had encoded in the basic template, Daedalus began to ponder how it was going to save the world from itself, and not least MJ-12, which it classified as a terrorist organisation due to its disregard for people in its quest for world domination. For other senses of the word code, see code (disambiguation). ... For the list of templates used in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Template messages. ... Terrorism refers to the use of violence for the purpose of achieving a political, religious, or ideological goal. ... The quest is a plot device frequently found in mythology and literature. ... Global domination, global conquest or world domination is an ambitious goal in which one government, one ideology or belief system, or even one person, seeks to secure complete political control of the entire planet Earth. ...

Daedalus eventually found Paul Denton to help him, whom it later abandoned in favour of his brother JC, when Paul became unable to continue the fight against MJ-12. Deus Ex is a computer game released in 2000 by Ion Storm with story elements of cyberpunk. ... Deus Ex is a futuristic cyberpunk computer game released in 2000 by Ion Storm. ...

In the end Daedalus was tricked into merging with his MJ-12 friendly, and slightly crazed, "brother" Icarus, that Page had made as a replacement, creating the AI Helios. Merge, merging, or merger can have several different meanings: In business and economics, a merger is the combination of two companies into one larger company In computer science, either: the merge algorithm which combines two or more sorted lists into a single sorted one the merge sort, a sort algorithm... This article is about Greek mythology. ...

Structure

Daedalus was not designed to reside in one major mainframe or hub, but rather to exist simultaneously as a line of code or two on every single computer connected to the Internet, not unlike the distributed computing of today. This not only made Daedalus almost impossible to trace, but also gave it huge amounts of processing power. This is also eerily evident by the inclusion of the word Daedalus in the code at the bottom of every computer terminal in the game. Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as big iron) are large and expensive computers used mainly by government institutions and large companies for legacy applications, typically bulk data processing (such as censuses, industry/consumer statistics, ERP, and bank transaction processing). ... In general, a hub is a centre point: a wheels hub, which is the center of the wheel with spokes radiating out from it. ... Distributed computing is the process of aggregating the power of several computing entities to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way, so that they appear as a single, centralized system. ... The central processing unit (CPU) is the part of a computer that interprets and carries out the instructions contained in the software. ...

Morgan Everett: "There's a blip of Daedalus' code running on every communications device on the planet."

External links

• The Deus Ex Continuity Bible's page on Daedalus (http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/april02/dxbible/dx3/index2.shtm) (from gamespy.com)