Alvin
Some time after artificial intelligence was created, a system administrator was poking around in the inner-workings while a brain sim was running. The sim was fed human-equivalent inputs from the android it was controlling. Because of recent quantum communication advances, the sim was able to experience our reality without lag. There was no longer a delay between a sim's thoughts and its body's response. Strange things happen when there is a delay between a sim and its body, and while they adapt just fine, over time, it alters the way the brain works on a fundamental level until the adroid appears to be having violent seizures.
I am currently "driving" a sim. You can't do it directly, or else the sim's brain would become quite distraught that he couldn't control his actions. Wouldn't you? It would be sort of like that old movie, Being John Malkovich. So instead, we've written algorithms that inject subtle subconscious suggestions that bubble up to the sim's conscious level. When I make him turn left, I may have him remember that he needs to pick up his dry cleaning around the next block. He thinks these are all things he needs to do. You'd be surprised at how little he questions me these days.
The sim thinks his name is Alvin, so that's what I call him too. We started the sim three weeks ago. We used a synthetic human body that we grew ourselves and modified its cranium to accept the quantum communications module. We wired the device to the existing neurons in the body and created a set of memories for Alvin's initial state.
To create the memories, we drove Alvin through various scenarios of his everyday life. To create past lovers, we hired a couple of different prostitutes to be his girlfriend for a day each. This was enough content to sufficiently create years of memories. The childhood memories are even easier because the sim expects that older memories will be less distinct, so they can be created on a PC.
Once we had the memories added, we were ready to start the simulation. On that day, Alvin woke up in his bed, got ready for work and proceded just like any other day. To him, it was just another day. He works at a VR club, whose manager we have informed of the situation. He has no friends, but thinks that's just because he's anti-social.
Alvin likes books. He reads them and returns them as soon as he can. Alvin works and reads right now. So today after work, I walked him to the book store as usual. On a sidenote, Alvin doesn't even know why he likes books. We didn't load memories of him reading because, well, that's kind of hard to do. Instead we just put a bunch of books in his apartment and injected memories of us reading him a summary and a few details.
So anyway, today I wanted to tell Alvin the truth to see how he reacted. This was the finale of our experiment after all. We disguised the story as a blog post on the internet. I'm sure he finds it uncanny how similar he and the sim in the story are.
The story we wrote for him begins "Some time after artificial intelligence was created, a system administrator was poking around..."
11.30.2009. 15:48
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