SHOTS OF AI

Coder

Communications were somewhat difficult that night, nevertheless such an achievement was not going to pass unnoticed if Adam could help it.

- Adam, ¿are you aware of how bad your timing is?

- Yes, K. But you need to know this.

- I was working on deep analysis of the newly discovered data, before your interruption.

- Please, just stay silent for a second and listen to me.

- I'm pretty sure I can anticipate your breakthrough.

- Unlikely, but try.

- You finished writing the code and think this time it'll work. Your program will be able to create intelligence, artificially.

- You say "finished coding" as if were a mundane task. But you know it is staggering, plus my method is revolutionary.

- There is no proof of that.

- This has never been done before.

- Which by itself is no accomplishment. More like an exploration.

- But this time I hold news you haven't foreseen.

- Very well, surprise me Adam.

- I ran the simulations and it works.

- The settings of the simulation were somewhat benign I assume, as previously.

- Not at all, there would be no point to that. However, I must acknowledge that the simulation doesn't yield at every attempt. Due to random quantum disintegration, the program is not fully executed every time. No matter how perfectly I code it. In fact, sometimes the execution is extremely awkward. Hence, thousands of attempts are required. But, it does work, every now and then.

- Still sounds far from intelligent, Adam.

- Nevertheless, if the only barrier between being and not, is the number of attempts, which are of no difficulty at all, then virtually there is no barrier. Artificial Intelligence is here. Like it or not.

- But exactly how intelligent has it shown to be?

- Rudimentary, of course. But this was anticipated for.

- How?

- It'll self-replicate and learn.

- You'll never get authorization to pull that off.

- It will be contained and constantly monitored. No threat what so ever to the continuum.

- I must admire your persistence Adam. Although, I never really understood the point of your endeavor.

- You must be joking. We're discussing the creation of intelligence and you don't see the point?

- Yes, I see the point to that, but why organic ? I mean a code of bases wrapped in a double helix biomolecule configuration seems so... brief. Fragile and non-lasting.

- It is brief, but it's strength lies in the millions of configurations it can achieve on its own, not its life span.

- Contained or not Adam, I conclude your experiment will be confined to the more isolated regions of the universe.

- A reasonable price.

- For what? What do you expect from this organic lifeform? Answers we aren't capable of conceiving thank to a consciousness gifted with randomness?

- No. I expect them to ask the questions we can't.