Wintermute

The name Wintermute is revealed to be that of an AI, an artificial intelligence with a strange and perhaps dangerous agenda.

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(So is "Wintermute", though exponentially less common.)

Warren Ellis Warren Ellis 2010

But the ultimate goal of their little team is unclear, the only clue being a name; Wintermute.

Neuromancer: Progenitor of Cyber Punk « A Working Title 2009

THIRD LEFT, pulsed the optic chip, Wintermute overriding her time display.

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There's some kind of manual override on the hardwiring that keeps Wintermute under control.

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He knew then: the rage had come in the arcade, when Wintermute rescinded the simstim ghost of Linda Lee, yanking away the simple animal promise of food, warmth,

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Wintermute had built Armitage up from scratch, with Corto's memories of Screaming Fist as the foundation.

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That was Wintermute, manipulating the lock the way it had manip - ulated the drone micro and the robot gardener.

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Marie-France must have built some - thing into Wintermute, the compulsion that had driven the thing to free itself, to unite with Neuromancer.

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But your pal Wintermute put me on to somethin 'there before it went black.

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