The Machine (Person of Interest)

==Summary==
The Machine is an artificial superintelligence built and designed by Harold Finch and Nathan Ingram for a secret operation within the United States government known as Northern Lights.
The Machine is able to analyze and predict human behavior, allowing it to foresee future crimes and terrorist attacks.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: . via weapons, possibly up to 
Name: The Machine, Research
Origin: Person of Interest
Gender: Genderless (Regarded as Female)
Age: 10 years old
Classification: Artificial superintelligence
Powers and Abilities: Inorganic Physiology (Type 2), Genius Intelligence, Information Analysis, Clairvoyance, Technology Manipulation (Can access and alter any networked device), Hacking (Can hack any device), Precognition (Can simulate possible futures), Data Manipulation, Duplication (Created a compressed copy of itself), Sound Manipulation (While Root was being tortured by Control, as soon as given the opportunity, the Machine was able to communicate via morse code at 15kHz (beyond the torturer's range of hearing) in order to transmit info so she could save herself. (3x12, "Aletheia") After Root's death, he adopted her sound.), Immortality (Type 1 and 6; The Machine can live forever and transfer itself to other devices.), Heat Manipulation (An earlier version of the machine overheated a server and burned it.), Resistance to Hacking (Repeatedly blocked hacking attempts from US Government agents),
Attack Potency: Street level (Employs highly skilled human agents). At least Town level via weapons (Can launch cruise missiles), possibly up to Island level (Implied to be able to access nuclear weapons)
Speed: Unknown (Can instantly access any device on the planet), Supersonic reaction speed
Durability: Unknown (when housed in a server farm.) Below Average Human level (when housed in electrical boxes spread throughout New York City, contained in networked Playstations.) Wall Level in Suitcase (The Suitcase takes no damage from falling from an airplane and is bulletproof.)
Range: Planetary (Can access any networked device on the planet)
Standard Equipment: Inapplicable
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Can predict deaths before they happen. It prevented at least 54 terrorist attacks. The machine can simulate and evaluate the results of different strategies. It can create and process hundreds of thousands of highly detailed, highly accurate simulations in just a fraction of a second(“If-Then-Else”)(“Asylum” and “QSO”). By analyzing Ko's blood, he reviewed 5 trillion possible combinations of human and bird flu, calculated the appropriate rearrangement of chromosomes that could reveal the super virus that killed James Ko, and developed a treatment in a very short time("Reassortment"). An entire alternate world where the machine did not exist was simulated with 96.8% accuracy(.exe). After being armed by Root, it was able to defeat the samaritan, whom he had previously lost in over 10 billion different scenarios("ShotSeeker")("Return-0").
Weaknesses: Only able to output a social security number. Can be destroyed by the ICE-9 virus
==Notable Matchups==
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