It seems to me that aside from intelligence rankings and the distinction of having or lacking a fictional basis, there is a third type of classification: that of conditions surrounding their Quickening.
Deliberate AIs are what happens when a person who sets out to create an AI gets one. Scott-series AIs, the AI crew of Ki, and (I assume) Buckaroo Banzai are Deliberate AIs.
Circumstantial AIs come about due to background thoughts of the creator or extant files on the computer, rather than actual intent. Gina and GLaDOS are Circumstantial AIs (indeed, it could be argued that most ship AIs are circumstantial, due to the human habit of anthropomorphising vehicles).
Spontaneous AIs are truly ex nihilo, though most appear on special-built hardware intended for a particular (non-AI) purpose, rather than J. Random 'Waved PC. The first Hyper-Core AIs created by A.C. Peters (Lebia, Leonard, and Edddie) quickened in what were originally supposed to be VR servers for King of Fen.
Deliberate AIs are what happens when a person who sets out to create an AI gets one. Scott-series AIs, the AI crew of Ki, and (I assume) Buckaroo Banzai are Deliberate AIs.
Circumstantial AIs come about due to background thoughts of the creator or extant files on the computer, rather than actual intent. Gina and GLaDOS are Circumstantial AIs (indeed, it could be argued that most ship AIs are circumstantial, due to the human habit of anthropomorphising vehicles).
Spontaneous AIs are truly ex nihilo, though most appear on special-built hardware intended for a particular (non-AI) purpose, rather than J. Random 'Waved PC. The first Hyper-Core AIs created by A.C. Peters (Lebia, Leonard, and Edddie) quickened in what were originally supposed to be VR servers for King of Fen.