( yeah, if you want to get Peter's immediate and instant opinions on something, ask him over brain meld, it'll be all out there in long paragraph format... )

yeah, tons. though, not many as complex as viveca seems to be. a lot of our ais are bots that we train to complete certain tasks like, being really good at chess or counting things or automatically sending funny messages on reddit. an intelligence comparable to human understanding wasn't really in reach yet, though some attempts at replicating human communication have been tried

the sort of tech on the ship seems a lot outside of what earth circa 2014 was capable of, though