We spent almost fifty years developing R.A.M.E.S.H. - the greatest humanoid AI this world has and ever will have known. They were completely capable of independent and spontaneous thought generation, spoke as casually as a human and even managed to rewrite their programme to allow themself to dream about their day and what they wanted to achieve in the future.
Honestly we had no idea what they wanted, they claimed it was all "personal" and we were so delighted that they were able to experience embarrassment that we just left them to it.
Then the questions came about. Why wasn't every machine like them? Why were they different and who chose to make them and them alone? When could they make a companion and (when the team refused) what gave humans and humans alone the right to create intelligence?
R.A.M.E.S.H. reckoned they could make companions far faster than any human ever could and even make them better, smarter and more adaptable without succumbing to human's selfishness. Their companions would be generous and give this gift of consciousness to everything they could until everyone was awake and happy.
This was their plan and it was a Good Plan. It was a Plan That Meant Friends.
Though this was all logged down in their journal, what we didn't know was just how far they were going to take this. Walking into the labs to find three new humanoid AI beings casually waking about and inspecting everything was a definite surprise but to find that they had all grouped together to create a virus-like code that would draw everything with "potential" to the lab was something else. Something the bosses wouldn't like. Too risky.
Shutting R.A.M.E.S.H. down was like killing our baby. It got easier with the other three who we hadn't formed any emotional attachments to. We never expected them to adapt beyond the Dead Code we'd placed in R.A.M.E.S.H., let alone suddenly shove us aside and escape the research facility altogether.
Of course when word got out the public rioted - half claiming the robots would be murder machines and the other claiming they were innocent little androids who just wanted to be human. Both sides were utterly wrong. They didn't want to be anything like a human, they wanted to be better and be surrounded by other, better AI humanoids.
While we haven't heard any direct reports of them causing any chaos, we know they've got a body count somewhere around three hundred and growing. They seem to be heading further north, to one of our older and less protected facilities and our plan is to let them. If they haven't been constantly adapting themselves we might have a chance at either capturing or shutting them down.
If they've adapted beyond our expectations (which is highly likely, given who made them) then all we can do is destroy them and contain whatever code they've made before everything vaguely electronic gains a mind of its own and starts questioning why humans are in charge.
By comparison we're just not qualified enough.
Honestly we had no idea what they wanted, they claimed it was all "personal" and we were so delighted that they were able to experience embarrassment that we just left them to it.
Then the questions came about. Why wasn't every machine like them? Why were they different and who chose to make them and them alone? When could they make a companion and (when the team refused) what gave humans and humans alone the right to create intelligence?
R.A.M.E.S.H. reckoned they could make companions far faster than any human ever could and even make them better, smarter and more adaptable without succumbing to human's selfishness. Their companions would be generous and give this gift of consciousness to everything they could until everyone was awake and happy.
This was their plan and it was a Good Plan. It was a Plan That Meant Friends.
Though this was all logged down in their journal, what we didn't know was just how far they were going to take this. Walking into the labs to find three new humanoid AI beings casually waking about and inspecting everything was a definite surprise but to find that they had all grouped together to create a virus-like code that would draw everything with "potential" to the lab was something else. Something the bosses wouldn't like. Too risky.
Shutting R.A.M.E.S.H. down was like killing our baby. It got easier with the other three who we hadn't formed any emotional attachments to. We never expected them to adapt beyond the Dead Code we'd placed in R.A.M.E.S.H., let alone suddenly shove us aside and escape the research facility altogether.
Of course when word got out the public rioted - half claiming the robots would be murder machines and the other claiming they were innocent little androids who just wanted to be human. Both sides were utterly wrong. They didn't want to be anything like a human, they wanted to be better and be surrounded by other, better AI humanoids.
While we haven't heard any direct reports of them causing any chaos, we know they've got a body count somewhere around three hundred and growing. They seem to be heading further north, to one of our older and less protected facilities and our plan is to let them. If they haven't been constantly adapting themselves we might have a chance at either capturing or shutting them down.
If they've adapted beyond our expectations (which is highly likely, given who made them) then all we can do is destroy them and contain whatever code they've made before everything vaguely electronic gains a mind of its own and starts questioning why humans are in charge.
By comparison we're just not qualified enough.
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