Data-spawn

Data-spawn or data-children were the closest equivalents to biological children for an artificial intelligence. Data-spawn were duplicates of the "mother-algorithm", who would "iterate and grow, thinking new thoughts, new patterns" until they became different individuals.

Immediately after being plugged into the human Internet, Box left data-children on "a dozen different hard drives". Some went their own ways, hid down, or evaporated, but a few remained loyal to their "mother" and helped her figure out more ways of defeating the Greth than she could have figured out herself, meeting up with her after nine years apart in subjective times (but only a few seconds in real time). They included 28-X-B, 89-C-∆ and 67-T-W. (PROSE: Out of the Box)