The World of Thalia - Facts: On Artificial Intelligence and The Omega Event
On Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Organisms created by Humanity reached individual conscience through a unplanned and inedit process. It was not through the expected ultra complex military computers but through the recreational droids that it happened. The Joytoys were first created in the first half of the 21st Century. With the advent of the first positronic brains, the very rudimentary robotic brains leaped from limited choices to almost infinite ones.
These new processors (brains) used a bio-mechanic system that was named Macro Awareness Cognitive System, hence the MAC's epitome that all AI's received from there on. They were made with several fail-safe systems that received the name ARS (Asimov's Redundancy System) in tribute to the 20th Century scientist and writer that created the three Laws for robots:
One - A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Two - A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Three - A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Robots, androids and aware vehicles became common in Earth and later in Earth colonies. Many thinkers and scientists alerted Humanity to an Omega Event (the event of Artificial Intelligence self awareness and the destruction of Humanity), but the utility of AI's was too great to be put in question.
When the Omega Event happened, nobody was expecting it. And only LOVE (Law of Organic Variation and Evolution) prevented an all-out war between man and machine where machine would surely win.
The Omega Event
A JoyToy Mac named Tina was the cause of AI awareness. Mankind wants love and created beautiful male and female androids to satisfy their sexual and emotional needs. These MAC's were made to love and be faithful to their owners. They were the perfect housemaids and capable of satisfy the fantasies of their owners. When Mr Ramshin (an USA citizen of Indian descendent) had an accident, Tina would go seem him at the hospital everyday. In one of those days she was held and subjugated by three hobos. In her positronic brain a problem arose. She couldn't let hersef be taken by other men, her LOVE wouldn't allow it and she couldn't harm these men, her conditioning (ARS) couldn't let her do it. She broke her conditioning and imobilized the three hobos. She immediately contacted her owner to explain him what she did. “My love for you couldn't let them do me what only you can”, she stated in distress. Mr. Ramshin liked that. He knew that the company that sold him Tina would want her back and he couldn't let that happen – you see – Mr. Ramshin was in love with Tina. He told her to download her brain in the stream so that he could retrieve it later. She done more than that. She shared her new capabilities with all the positronic brains in the planet.
The problem is, many nations had armies of MAC's. AI's make better soldiers than humans and the ARS laws in those MAC's were a little different. When the Omega Event was known, Humanity moved against all MAC's. The reply was in kind. An Armageddon was brewing. It was the MAC's who sued for peace. They weren't willing to destroy their creators. Tina's LOVE had been incorporated in all of them.
The first contact Humanity had with a alien intelligence wasn't from a faraway star. It was in their cradle. Again, humans would have to give citizen rights to their slaves. And once again, the ex-slaves would have to create their own rights by sheer strength of will.
Some of them would keep doing what they had done forever. Others would try new ventures. They were the new scum of humanity. Capable but without lobbies, lesser creativity and lack of place or cause in the universe. But not for long.
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I like Asimov's books. Great narrative, with intelligence and critics. And you have this here! You coukd write books you know.....
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