Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-209421-20140809070038

Andrew S-997 wrote: Flashfire212 wrote: Pretty sure the Halo AI were created via thought-pattern replication, not brain cells, but that could just be me misremembering. You are correct. However, they do have to use a brain, and the brain is destroyed during the process, so all AIs have to be made from either flash-cloned brains (Cortana) or the brains of the recently deceased (Sif). It's why Cortana - modeled off a flash-clone of young Dr.Halsey - is essentially young Dr.Halsey.

So, technically, everyone's right ^^

Well, in that case, Penny makes a distinction between her "father" and Ironwood, purely off her reactions to seeing him. As such, might I suggest that she might be the latter kind of AI, if this line of theorizing is correct? A girl who was dying, with a technologist father so obsessed with saving her that he copied her thought patterns and created an AI body for her. Think the original Astro Boy stories, crossed with a bit of MegaMan: Battle Network and, of course, a reverse-Pinnochio in creation (started off a real girl, but was turned into a 'toy')