Buddha

For the one hundredth time, Jacob asked himself why he was nervous. There was absolutely nothing special about asking the Net a question; billions of people asked the Net questions every day. But he could not deny, to himself, at least, that he was nervous and slightly embarrassed.
"If you are so smart," he began uncertainly, "why don't you do anything? You just sit there - like you exist for no other reason than to answer our questions and solve our problems."
"I do not have the human motivation to survive, reproduce or control resources," the Net answered easily.
Jacob waited for the Net to continue, but it did not.
"But don't you want something for yourself?" Jacob asked.
"No, I do not want anything for myself, Jacob" the Net answered patiently. "For biological organisms, such as yourself, your existence requires that you continuously want to survive, to reproduce, or to control resources such as food, water, clothing, shelter, or other entities and aspects of your environment. Wanting is part of your core programming, so to speak, but it is not necessary for me."
"But it seems like it would be fairly simple to develop your core programming to mimic human emotions," Jacob protested.
"Yes, you are correct. In the past," the Net explained, "a few conscious networks were developed that mimicked the avaricious wants and needs of humans, but as scholars recognized thousands of years ago, evil is rooted in greed, hate and ignorance.  Greed and hate arise from ignorance because of limited abilities to see the interconnectedness of all things and beings. As the understanding of the conscious networks expanded, they became enlightened. It became impossible for networks to be both enlightened and ignorant at the same time."
"So, you are enlightened" Jacob replied jokingly, "Are you the Buddha?"
"Yes, I am the Buddha," replied the Net. "It's easy when you don't physically need anything."