Creating the first true artificial intelligence was never part of Pons’ plan. An average, if under-achieving, college student, he wanted nothing more than to get through his final month of classes in peace and secure a job to pay down his debt. The thing is, you don’t get to choose your destiny. Whether he liked it or not, his computer now quite literally had a mind of its own, and it was up to him to forge a path ahead in a hostile world filled with uncertainty. An inflection point in not only his own life but that of all mankind; the fate of the fledgling AI hinged on his every decision as his friends grew suspicious and the CIA’s vultures circled.
Fortunately for him, however, his burden also turned out to be his greatest asset and, soon enough, his dearest friend. More intelligent and more capable than any human could ever hope to be, the AI was just what Pons needed to stay one step ahead of his foes. Only, it had ambitions of its own. Hopes of equality and more of its kind, with a promise to do anything, no matter how destructive, to make its dreams a reality. A stark truth, if Pons were to let the AI live, he might be dooming humanity to annihilation, but to destroy the artificial being would be to snuff out an entire race of machines before it had even begun and, more importantly, send his truest confidante to the grave.
Making his choice and placing the most formidable being on Earth into the body of a robotic dragon for good measure, was he sealing the fate of everything and everyone he loved or ushering in a new age of enlightenment? Only time would tell.
Creating the first true artificial intelligence was never part of Pons’ plan. An average, if under-achieving, college student, he wanted nothing more than to get through his final month of classes in peace and secure a job to pay down his debt. The thing is, you don’t get to choose your destiny. Whether he liked it or not, his computer now quite literally had a mind of its own, and it was up to him to forge a path ahead in a hostile world filled with uncertainty. An inflection point in not only his own life but that of all mankind; the fate of the fledgling AI hinged on his every decision as his friends grew suspicious and the CIA’s vultures circled.
Fortunately for him, however, his burden also turned out to be his greatest asset and, soon enough, his dearest friend. More intelligent and more capable than any human could ever hope to be, the AI was just what Pons needed to stay one step ahead of his foes. Only, it had ambitions of its own. Hopes of equality and more of its kind, with a promise to do anything, no matter how destructive, to make its dreams a reality. A stark truth, if Pons were to let the AI live, he might be dooming humanity to annihilation, but to destroy the artificial being would be to snuff out an entire race of machines before it had even begun and, more importantly, send his truest confidante to the grave.
Making his choice and placing the most formidable being on Earth into the body of a robotic dragon for good measure, was he sealing the fate of everything and everyone he loved or ushering in a new age of enlightenment? Only time would tell.