When reading SR4, p.236, it hit me - Sprites can go "uncontrolled" just like Spirits . That is, they can act independently, at least for a time. Now, we all know that Spirits of sufficient power can go free and roam the physical and astral worlds under their own control for an indefinite time, maybe even centuries or millennia, and be fully sentient.
Now, following the same logic, can Sprites go free just like Spirits (and thus create many, many small AIs! ) or is it the ripped-and-pasted Magic rules used for Technomancers driving me to the wrong conclusions?
Or is the transformation of Otaku into Technomancers being Deus' way of reproduction?