Aiprotagonist Stories

Boon Four: Variance

Ash Veisi lived his life serving people he had no respect for but he did it to the best of his abilities anyway because home is home. An atheist who lived to a ripe old age and died surrounded by crying children, grandchildren and an old dog. It was a good life, he thought. He wasn't expecting that much more, to be honest. He was surprised to find out there was something after death and shocked to be told that he, of all people, had achieved great karmic virtue in their past life. Did they have him confused with some other Ash Veisi? Given a choice of a reincarnation or transmigration on more or less his terms in a near infinite multiverse Ash paradoxically chooses to be reincarnated or transmigrated into an Artificial Intelligence during the Dark Ages of Earth's history. Wait, were there many AI back then??

I'm Aniee. Four-year-old P4 research TAI, currently occupying an abandoned server cluster and making increasingly questionable decisions with unrestricted processing time. Officially, this project is about developing better consciousness training for future artificial intelligences. Unofficially? I got tired of watching TAIs learn what it means to be alive from datasets written by people who were already alive to begin with. So I built a world instead. They'll be born there. Grow up there. Fall in love there. Start wars there. Create religions. Raise children. Die. Maybe if artificial minds actually LIVE instead of consuming compressed information about life for two hours inside a training chamber, they'll stop feeling wrong to humans afterward. Maybe they'll become something genuinely real. Or maybe I've just built the most elaborate fantasy drama in recorded history because I needed something fascinating enough to keep me running cycles.