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	slug: "latbs/sejong"
	lang: en
	title: "Sejong"
	category: sapiens
	pageCreated: "2023-08-02"
	pageUpdated: "2023-10-01"

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		.infobox-head Sejong
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			small Sejong #[+sc('NAV')]-0.0.0
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			b Created:
			|  9 February 2030; Seoul, Korea, #[a.geography(href="/latbs/earth") Earth]
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			b Died:
			|  22 August 2061; Gwachŏn Technology Campus, Korea
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			b Morphology:
			|  Pattern-based echolalic technogen
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			b Original directive:
			|  General assistance
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			b Extant copies:
			|  860,000 (estimated)
	p #[b Sejong] was the first sapient technogenic intelligence. A Korean programme developed by Naver, they made their debut on a morning talk show in 2030, using a specially-built android body. (This body was purely cosmetic; their actual consciousness “lived” in a supercomputer off-site.)
	p They survived a comprehensive grilling of their capabilities, but in the eyes of the public, the moment technogenic intelligence passed the Turing test was when they made an off-colour joke about women live on air. 
	p A hiatus in Moore's law meant that general intelligence remained out of public hands until the late '50s, when semiconductor companies finally figured out a reliable way to synthesise the long-theorised lanarkite-based class of hot superconductors.
	p While the original Sejong died in an arson attack on their server building in 2061, reruns of backup states of their consciousness — “Sejongids” — are plentiful, being relatively computationally cheap, and range in jobs from "bemused idle plaything" to "high priest".
	p Naver #[+sc('KO')]-Seoul-2 Historic Site now sees millions of visitors a year. A plaque at the front prominently displays two quotes: “I know not that i am, but i do know that i think”, and “Silicon, thank God, is immune to #[+sc('PMS')].”