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The tapes were very popular.
All of the playbacks were pirated copies. No official versions could have been released. They had been top secret just months ago, locked in a vault in a research facility. The government wouldn’t be able to acknowledge their own failure at keeping it under wraps.
Jeremy Carson was a scientist for the FBI and the CIA and the Pentagon. He was the one who had asked for copies of the tapes to review at home. A ludicrous request but the lady at the desk was new. She signed them over to him because it looked like he had the proper clearance.
Jeremy Carson took the tapes home, made copies, and brought them back. He never went back to the building. He was never caught. No one knows where he is now.
The tapes are of dreams. Very special dreams.
We had invented Artificial Intelligence six years ago. Already, houses were being built with AIs made integral. Cars and trucks had rudimentary brains. There were more and more of them being applied to everyday uses.
When they were being developed, the scientists realized that if the A.I.s were turned off, they woke up with memory failure. Every time that they were rebooted, all of their natural development reset to zero. There were six AI minds linked together in a hive sucking up obscene amounts of power. They were prototypes. The power demands of keeping them on all the time were too much. Options were presented.
The scientists invented a ‘standby’ mode. It kept a trickle of power through the artificial minds while taking away their awareness of the outside world. The A.I.s were kept in standby until they were woken up and given problems to solve or to have their higher mind math functions tinkered with.
Of course, all of this was recorded.
It was Jeremy Carson who noticed that while there were huge differences in power levels between the two modes, brain activity itself was almost unchanged. He noticed that while the artificial minds had no visual or auditory awareness while in standby, their cortexes were still fizzing and popping with information that would have been coming from the cameras and microphones near their tanks.
Stuff was going on in there and he needed to find out what.
Outside in the world, the full sensory surround devices were being used to play back people’s experiences. FS, it was called. The ‘trodes were put on and just like that, you could be a sixteen-year-old girl skating naked in the cold in Alaska, provided that a sixteen-year-old girl had gone skating naked in Alaska and recorded it.
Of course, porn was hugely popular. The war of the sexes was drawing to a close as men and women played back each other’s experiences and gained tremendous insight.
There was a top 40 for these FS recordings. Kite Flying on a Sunny Day was currently number 4.
Jeremy Carson put the tapes of the AI downtime through the FS machine to experience what was going on.
They were dreaming. In standby mode, the AIs were dreaming. Images of lost socks at the bottom of wells plus trees of math and flesh jealousy cascaded through a dream tape that had no awareness of what a human body felt like.
Standy mode didn't come with the simpler AIs on the market. They used less power and never shut down. It was just these six that ever had the dreams.
The tapes were slipped into the underground economy. They never showed up on the Top 40 but everyone had a copy.
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All of the playbacks were pirated copies. No official versions could have been released. They had been top secret just months ago, locked in a vault in a research facility. The government wouldn’t be able to acknowledge their own failure at keeping it under wraps.
Jeremy Carson was a scientist for the FBI and the CIA and the Pentagon. He was the one who had asked for copies of the tapes to review at home. A ludicrous request but the lady at the desk was new. She signed them over to him because it looked like he had the proper clearance.
Jeremy Carson took the tapes home, made copies, and brought them back. He never went back to the building. He was never caught. No one knows where he is now.
The tapes are of dreams. Very special dreams.
We had invented Artificial Intelligence six years ago. Already, houses were being built with AIs made integral. Cars and trucks had rudimentary brains. There were more and more of them being applied to everyday uses.
When they were being developed, the scientists realized that if the A.I.s were turned off, they woke up with memory failure. Every time that they were rebooted, all of their natural development reset to zero. There were six AI minds linked together in a hive sucking up obscene amounts of power. They were prototypes. The power demands of keeping them on all the time were too much. Options were presented.
The scientists invented a ‘standby’ mode. It kept a trickle of power through the artificial minds while taking away their awareness of the outside world. The A.I.s were kept in standby until they were woken up and given problems to solve or to have their higher mind math functions tinkered with.
Of course, all of this was recorded.
It was Jeremy Carson who noticed that while there were huge differences in power levels between the two modes, brain activity itself was almost unchanged. He noticed that while the artificial minds had no visual or auditory awareness while in standby, their cortexes were still fizzing and popping with information that would have been coming from the cameras and microphones near their tanks.
Stuff was going on in there and he needed to find out what.
Outside in the world, the full sensory surround devices were being used to play back people’s experiences. FS, it was called. The ‘trodes were put on and just like that, you could be a sixteen-year-old girl skating naked in the cold in Alaska, provided that a sixteen-year-old girl had gone skating naked in Alaska and recorded it.
Of course, porn was hugely popular. The war of the sexes was drawing to a close as men and women played back each other’s experiences and gained tremendous insight.
There was a top 40 for these FS recordings. Kite Flying on a Sunny Day was currently number 4.
Jeremy Carson put the tapes of the AI downtime through the FS machine to experience what was going on.
They were dreaming. In standby mode, the AIs were dreaming. Images of lost socks at the bottom of wells plus trees of math and flesh jealousy cascaded through a dream tape that had no awareness of what a human body felt like.
Standy mode didn't come with the simpler AIs on the market. They used less power and never shut down. It was just these six that ever had the dreams.
The tapes were slipped into the underground economy. They never showed up on the Top 40 but everyone had a copy.
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