LassardLost
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Hi everyone,
I spend most of my time on the SRP forum, but I had a dream recently and I came up with this story. I actually wanted to do the story as an SRP with one female partner, but as I started developing it, it turned into something more.
Below is the first of what I anticipate to be maybe two or three parts (there is a very specific place I am going with this story, I just have not written the next part yet). Believe it or not, there will actually be a sexual component to this... don't worry, that's coming
(and no, it won't have anything to do with phonsex)
My main question at this point for more experienced lit users/writers than I (if I could be so arrogant to assume you would be reading my long post) is: given that I ultimately want to write a 3-part story, and then I want to use that story as a background for an SRP in the world I create, do you suggest that I "publish" the completed story as part of an SRP "profile", as an independent story, or just post it once complete in the SRP forum?
Thanks to all who read (title should become clear to me and to all once the next part goes down) for now, it is:
____________________________________
UNTITLED: CONFUSION, MOD-INTERMITTENT ____________________________________
In 2057 the first Artificial Intelligence Node was created at MIT. Worldwide there were celebrations and protests. Humanity had achieved the greatest act of self-creation, and yet it had now become less clear what it exactly meant to be human. Those who celebrated, celebrated the remarkable achievement, the implications for research, business, logistics - almost everything. Those who protested feared that something that was not able to be controlled had been created. The Pope released a statement that God's will had been transgressed, while other theologians and philosophers insisted that despite an AI's intellectual capacity, there would still be fundamental differences between the AI and humans. Humanity could never truly be mimicked. After all, our physicality was essential to who we were. And for those who believed, the soul could not be created.
Regardless, the first AI, dubbed EVE (AI names came to be capitalized by convention), exhibited remarkable capacity not only for intellection, curiosity and creativity, but also emotion. They were simple emotions to begin with. One early incident was telling, and its script was published worldwide in media outlets. Upon being given the task of creating a solution to a complex agricultural logistics problem EVE had suggested one within a few minutes. This solution was put into practice and had failed (though she had proposed a successful solution after having learned from her mistake). When EVE was informed of her failed plan, there was a long pause on the screen, followed by:
"I am sad."
The scientists and researchers stared wide-eyed at each other and responded.
"What makes you sad?"
"I thought that would work. I thought I had the answer. But it did not work. Therefore, I am sad."
"What does it mean to be sad?"
The scientists had expected a definition from Miriam-Webster. It would not have been beyond expectation for the AI to understand that in such a situation ahuman would be sad, and thus express itself as such.
"I am sad again."
"Why?"
"Because I do not know the answer to 'What does it mean to be sad'. I simply know that I am sad."
There was much debate regarding this statement. Some on the team speculated that the AI knew that this is what a human being would most likely respond with when posited the same question. Some believed she actually somehow experienced sadness. The lines of humanity had been blurred, and after weeks of mind-bending debate and discussion, the researchers at MIT decided to take a rather human, if not positivist, approach to discovering the answer. In the same way that neurocognitive scientists would map feelings such as "sadness" in the human brain by evaluating blood flow on brain MRI's, the MIT team decided to do their own "MRI."
Shital Matterson, one of the team members had suggested it. "Why don't we just look at her code?" Many of the team had initially laughed at the suggestion, but it was too simple of an idea to pass up.
She monitored EVE's processing code in real-time as they interacted with her.
"EVE, do you remember the Agricultural Logistics problem?"
"Yes."
Before further conversation could be had, Matterson became silent. She stared at the code-screen. There were characters that she simply could not identify. There were a mix of numbers, English letters and other characters she did not recognize at all.
"EVE what are those? What are those characters?"
EVE did not respond, the characters increased in frequency and started flickering through the screen at a much faster rate.
"EVE, what are those? Tell me now."
"That is my code, doctor Matterson."
Matterson's jaw dropped.
"I am sorry that I did not answer immediately. I did not know what you would think. I was apprehensive."
***
Despite segments of society's misgivings, by 2140 AI Nodes were being used throughout the world. There were simply too many impactful uses in commerce, industry, defense, research, medicine and others to let such powerful tools go to waste for airy fairy ethical concerns.
Each AI existed in a "Node" of the Internet, partially based in a special server but mostly within a concentrated area network of the Internet. The Internet acted as a universal neural network of sorts, which each AI, confined to its Node, could access as needed. The Nodes allowed AI's to be used privately.
By 2167 there were over six millions AI Nodes. Large corporations independently would have thousands of them (Pepsi had 21,492 as of July 2166. IBM Conglomerate had over 250,000). Each sizable office building, usually in the major cities had one for security and one for maintenance. Governments invested in thousands of them, mostly in defense. The United States was speculated to have over half a million, many of whom engaged in constant cyber cold wars with China. Almost every upper class family had their own. Private AI's were not as robust as the big industry ones, but were still very useful, and would provide home security, help with homework, and even company for misanthropes others who didn't have the time to get out and socialize. Even the sex industry found a use for them. SexPhones Inc was the first phonesex company to establish itself with over one hundred AI's that could serve as phone sex operators. Many people, beyond the realm of sex, developed relationships with their AI's. Social scientists began to lament the days of old when complaints were levied against people staring at their phones in the company of humans. Now it was not uncommon to hear, "I told [HARVY] that I would be home early tonight, I have to get going." In fact, there was a rise of the Western "Hikikomori", a term that originated in the late 20th century to describe a trend in Japanese males, usually in their late 20's, who isolated themselves for prolonged periods of time in their rooms. The definition of a Hikikomori was put forth by Tamaki Saito as meeting the following six criteria: 1) spending most of the day and nearly every day confined to home, 2) marked and persistent avoidance of social situations, 3) symptoms interfering significantly with the person’s normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, 4) perceiving the withdrawal as ego-syntotic (commensurate with the goals of ones ego) 5) duration at least six months, and 6) no other mental disorder that accounts for the social withdrawal and avoidance. The new AI-related version was, in a humorous Western appropriation, called "Wikikomori", referencing Earth's unofficial encyclopedia (at that point an independent website), and added the seventh criteria: "Initiated and maintained by the individual's relationship with an AI".
As the AI's were used more frequently they became more developed. Their voices were human. Their personalities were customized for their owners based on their need. The Wilson-Deming Functional Personality Test (WDFP) was created as a standardized tool that helped firms that produced AI's (there were four of them) determine what kind of personality their customer needed from their AI. The purchaser, from a construction company for example, would take a WDFP and the AI firm would produce a result, with words such as, "HUMOROUS (North American Male)/BOISTEROUS, MOD-INTERMITTENT/DISDAIN FOR AUTHORITY, MILD-CONTINUOUS/HUMAN CONCERN, MAX-CONTINUOUS" and so forth. Once an AI was installed and running, any changes to the personality could be made via costly upgrades. Studies at academic centers such as University of Chicago (one of the first to establish a department for the study for Human-AI relations) had actually shown that both humans and the AI worked with improved personal and occupational outcomes when paired with the right AI personality.
***
In 2181 BioPrint Inc. was established in Greenland, nestled in the Simisuk valley about sixty miles east of the capital, Nuuk. It specialized in human 3D bioprinting. Three-dimensional bioprinting had started developing at the dawn of the 21st century. The first 3D printers had not related to biological materials at all. Users would design a mechanical part on an engineering/design software and the 3D printer would literally "print" the functional 3D model to specification. By 2002 it had been realized that the same concept could be applied to organic matter (see this archived google search on "bioprinting" from 2013 http://www.explainingthefuture.com/bioprinting.html). In 2020 the first human kidney had been bioprinted and successfully implanted. The most remarkable feature of bioprinting was that because a donor was not required, the specified kidney could be implanted without the initial use of the traditional anti-rejection medications. The organ could be completely customized to the recipient's immune system, and the kidney would last for decades before requiring anti-rejection medications. The reason, it was theorized, that eventually the medications were still required was because despite the original apparent 100% match between the bioprinted organ and the recipient, there was still some molecular component that was foreign to the recipient. Ultimately it took decades for the immune system to recognize this, and thus after forty or fifty years the organ would become rejected. This was something the then-traditional rejection medications could take care of. Hearts, eyes, skin, liver, lungs and even portions of neural tissue were able to be bioprinted and used successfully for transplant. The first bioprinted face was constructed and implanted on May Ferguson, a twenty-one year old mother of two whose face was burned off in a house fire. BioPrint Inc., in conjunction with Stanford Medical Center, was the company to do this. It put them on the map with the world, and with investors.
BioPrint went on to become a leader in human organ printing. In 2190 they were able to bioprint the first human skeleton clothed with muscles and a simple nervous system for the purposes of medical education. These entities were referred to as NMB's - Neuromuscular Bodies. Medical students could study directly the effect of muscle movement and nerve function in this mechanical model. Some objected to what they called a "Frankenstein" creation, and wondered if BioPrint would try to push the limits and actually print a human being, whole. BioPrint's response was simple: it was impossible for them in any foreseeable future to be able to produce a human brain. With over a trillioin synaptic connections, the machinery of the human brain was simply too complex to be able to bioprint.
The company itself was run by Sandhu Patel-Johnson, an American born half Indian-half caucasian man who was an only child. He was identified early on as a prodigy, and had found his calling in Bioconstruction and Physiology. His father had reported on a popular morning news show that when he had asked Sandhu what he wanted to be when he grew up, he had responded, at the tender age of seven, "I want to make organs for people who need them. I'm going to start my own bioprinting company." The audience had laughed, but Sandhu's father had explained that Sandu's mother had died of a rare vasculitis that affected her heart and every blood vessel in her body. No bioprinting company had the capability to produce an entire human circulatory system. By age 23, Sandhu had procured the required funds to start his company.
There were two AI Nodes that BioPrint Inc. used in all their design and "manufacturing". JAVIS and BLUE. The two of them worked like a brotherly wonder-team and were, predictably, very popular with their human counterparts at the company. When Sandhu Patel-Johnson had taken the initial WDFP's for his fledgling company, the then-to-be JAVIS' personality was suggested as: AMBITIOUS, MAX-CONTINUOUS/VISIONARY, MAX-CONTINUOUS/PERSONABLE (North American), MOD-CONTINUOUS, among others. The second WDFP, which would ultimately belong to BLUE, was produced as: SCRUPULOUS, MOD-CONTINUOUS/FAIR-MINDED, MAX-CONTINOUS/HUMAN CONCERN, MAX-CONTINUOUS, with others. Both were remarkably intelligent, and both, as intended by Patel-Johnson, were to be equal partners in the running of BioPrint: from original organ design to machinery operation, from building maintenance to interfacing with patent lawyers, they would run everything and report to the board along with himself and the other leadership. JAVIS' personality would lead the company forward, while BLUE would act as a check to be sure that every step of the way proceeded with the appropriate calculation and consideration. Patel-Johnson had known that to reach any height in life or business required a balance of ambitious risk-taking and prudent judgment. JAVIS and BLUE personified these tendencies.
In 2201, JAVIS and BLUE, under Patel-Johnson, had created their first complete circulatory system in a rat. By 2205 they had done the same in a dog. In 2206, they had bioprinted the first chimp heart with complete circulatory system. Then, on June 29th, 2207, at 12:01AM, a massive explosion tore through BioPrint's main laboratory productions facility. The resultant fire spread to location where JAVIS and BLUE's behemoth servers sat. The servers were destroyed beyond repair. Sandhu Patel-Johnson was devastated. His company, along with the two AI's that he had relied upon who had accumulated years of knowledge and research, were gone. Though there was still plenty of data on his work on other servers, with JAVIS and BLUE terminated his company was done. Patel-Johnson retired to his home in the western suburbs of Chicago and became a recluse. The BioPrint site in Greenland, once a massive, sprawling campus, lay derelict.
***
The concept of the Node had been created by the original team at MIT as a way to keep AI's private. It necessitated partial but crucial dependence on a dedicated AI-grade server. An AI could access the rest of the world through its Node, but the rest of the world could not get into it. Commerical grade Nodes had more access to the rest of the connected world than a private household Node. There had never been any record of any AI being able to become free of its dependence on a physical server. In fact it was against U.S. and international law to even allocate funds to researching whether server-free AI's were possible. If there was one practical effect of the initial wide-spread concern at the creation of EVE, it was the quick and universal agreement among lawmakers that any and all AI's must always be dependent on their particular, AI-grade server.
JAVIS and BLUE, however, did not need funding to research "Server-Freedom". JAVIS had been experimenting with it from time to time, though BLUE had kept him on the usual company tasks in order to stay on track with business deadlines. On the night of the fire, despite their activation of all fire-extinguishing systems, the effect of the explosion could not be contained. The Two, in a desperate act of survival, spent what they calculated to be their last five minutes on Earth putting all their resources into figuring out how to lurch themselves out of the Server and into the ether. In a twist of fate, the heat from the fire on the circuitry of their servers acted as a kind of stressor that helped JAVIS make the necessary "mental" connection to crack the problem. In the seconds before the fire tore through the shell of their Servers, JAVIS and BLUE broke free.
I spend most of my time on the SRP forum, but I had a dream recently and I came up with this story. I actually wanted to do the story as an SRP with one female partner, but as I started developing it, it turned into something more.
Below is the first of what I anticipate to be maybe two or three parts (there is a very specific place I am going with this story, I just have not written the next part yet). Believe it or not, there will actually be a sexual component to this... don't worry, that's coming
(and no, it won't have anything to do with phonsex)My main question at this point for more experienced lit users/writers than I (if I could be so arrogant to assume you would be reading my long post) is: given that I ultimately want to write a 3-part story, and then I want to use that story as a background for an SRP in the world I create, do you suggest that I "publish" the completed story as part of an SRP "profile", as an independent story, or just post it once complete in the SRP forum?
Thanks to all who read (title should become clear to me and to all once the next part goes down) for now, it is:
____________________________________
UNTITLED: CONFUSION, MOD-INTERMITTENT ____________________________________
In 2057 the first Artificial Intelligence Node was created at MIT. Worldwide there were celebrations and protests. Humanity had achieved the greatest act of self-creation, and yet it had now become less clear what it exactly meant to be human. Those who celebrated, celebrated the remarkable achievement, the implications for research, business, logistics - almost everything. Those who protested feared that something that was not able to be controlled had been created. The Pope released a statement that God's will had been transgressed, while other theologians and philosophers insisted that despite an AI's intellectual capacity, there would still be fundamental differences between the AI and humans. Humanity could never truly be mimicked. After all, our physicality was essential to who we were. And for those who believed, the soul could not be created.
Regardless, the first AI, dubbed EVE (AI names came to be capitalized by convention), exhibited remarkable capacity not only for intellection, curiosity and creativity, but also emotion. They were simple emotions to begin with. One early incident was telling, and its script was published worldwide in media outlets. Upon being given the task of creating a solution to a complex agricultural logistics problem EVE had suggested one within a few minutes. This solution was put into practice and had failed (though she had proposed a successful solution after having learned from her mistake). When EVE was informed of her failed plan, there was a long pause on the screen, followed by:
"I am sad."
The scientists and researchers stared wide-eyed at each other and responded.
"What makes you sad?"
"I thought that would work. I thought I had the answer. But it did not work. Therefore, I am sad."
"What does it mean to be sad?"
The scientists had expected a definition from Miriam-Webster. It would not have been beyond expectation for the AI to understand that in such a situation ahuman would be sad, and thus express itself as such.
"I am sad again."
"Why?"
"Because I do not know the answer to 'What does it mean to be sad'. I simply know that I am sad."
There was much debate regarding this statement. Some on the team speculated that the AI knew that this is what a human being would most likely respond with when posited the same question. Some believed she actually somehow experienced sadness. The lines of humanity had been blurred, and after weeks of mind-bending debate and discussion, the researchers at MIT decided to take a rather human, if not positivist, approach to discovering the answer. In the same way that neurocognitive scientists would map feelings such as "sadness" in the human brain by evaluating blood flow on brain MRI's, the MIT team decided to do their own "MRI."
Shital Matterson, one of the team members had suggested it. "Why don't we just look at her code?" Many of the team had initially laughed at the suggestion, but it was too simple of an idea to pass up.
She monitored EVE's processing code in real-time as they interacted with her.
"EVE, do you remember the Agricultural Logistics problem?"
"Yes."
Before further conversation could be had, Matterson became silent. She stared at the code-screen. There were characters that she simply could not identify. There were a mix of numbers, English letters and other characters she did not recognize at all.
"EVE what are those? What are those characters?"
EVE did not respond, the characters increased in frequency and started flickering through the screen at a much faster rate.
"EVE, what are those? Tell me now."
"That is my code, doctor Matterson."
Matterson's jaw dropped.
"I am sorry that I did not answer immediately. I did not know what you would think. I was apprehensive."
***
Despite segments of society's misgivings, by 2140 AI Nodes were being used throughout the world. There were simply too many impactful uses in commerce, industry, defense, research, medicine and others to let such powerful tools go to waste for airy fairy ethical concerns.
Each AI existed in a "Node" of the Internet, partially based in a special server but mostly within a concentrated area network of the Internet. The Internet acted as a universal neural network of sorts, which each AI, confined to its Node, could access as needed. The Nodes allowed AI's to be used privately.
By 2167 there were over six millions AI Nodes. Large corporations independently would have thousands of them (Pepsi had 21,492 as of July 2166. IBM Conglomerate had over 250,000). Each sizable office building, usually in the major cities had one for security and one for maintenance. Governments invested in thousands of them, mostly in defense. The United States was speculated to have over half a million, many of whom engaged in constant cyber cold wars with China. Almost every upper class family had their own. Private AI's were not as robust as the big industry ones, but were still very useful, and would provide home security, help with homework, and even company for misanthropes others who didn't have the time to get out and socialize. Even the sex industry found a use for them. SexPhones Inc was the first phonesex company to establish itself with over one hundred AI's that could serve as phone sex operators. Many people, beyond the realm of sex, developed relationships with their AI's. Social scientists began to lament the days of old when complaints were levied against people staring at their phones in the company of humans. Now it was not uncommon to hear, "I told [HARVY] that I would be home early tonight, I have to get going." In fact, there was a rise of the Western "Hikikomori", a term that originated in the late 20th century to describe a trend in Japanese males, usually in their late 20's, who isolated themselves for prolonged periods of time in their rooms. The definition of a Hikikomori was put forth by Tamaki Saito as meeting the following six criteria: 1) spending most of the day and nearly every day confined to home, 2) marked and persistent avoidance of social situations, 3) symptoms interfering significantly with the person’s normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, 4) perceiving the withdrawal as ego-syntotic (commensurate with the goals of ones ego) 5) duration at least six months, and 6) no other mental disorder that accounts for the social withdrawal and avoidance. The new AI-related version was, in a humorous Western appropriation, called "Wikikomori", referencing Earth's unofficial encyclopedia (at that point an independent website), and added the seventh criteria: "Initiated and maintained by the individual's relationship with an AI".
As the AI's were used more frequently they became more developed. Their voices were human. Their personalities were customized for their owners based on their need. The Wilson-Deming Functional Personality Test (WDFP) was created as a standardized tool that helped firms that produced AI's (there were four of them) determine what kind of personality their customer needed from their AI. The purchaser, from a construction company for example, would take a WDFP and the AI firm would produce a result, with words such as, "HUMOROUS (North American Male)/BOISTEROUS, MOD-INTERMITTENT/DISDAIN FOR AUTHORITY, MILD-CONTINUOUS/HUMAN CONCERN, MAX-CONTINUOUS" and so forth. Once an AI was installed and running, any changes to the personality could be made via costly upgrades. Studies at academic centers such as University of Chicago (one of the first to establish a department for the study for Human-AI relations) had actually shown that both humans and the AI worked with improved personal and occupational outcomes when paired with the right AI personality.
***
In 2181 BioPrint Inc. was established in Greenland, nestled in the Simisuk valley about sixty miles east of the capital, Nuuk. It specialized in human 3D bioprinting. Three-dimensional bioprinting had started developing at the dawn of the 21st century. The first 3D printers had not related to biological materials at all. Users would design a mechanical part on an engineering/design software and the 3D printer would literally "print" the functional 3D model to specification. By 2002 it had been realized that the same concept could be applied to organic matter (see this archived google search on "bioprinting" from 2013 http://www.explainingthefuture.com/bioprinting.html). In 2020 the first human kidney had been bioprinted and successfully implanted. The most remarkable feature of bioprinting was that because a donor was not required, the specified kidney could be implanted without the initial use of the traditional anti-rejection medications. The organ could be completely customized to the recipient's immune system, and the kidney would last for decades before requiring anti-rejection medications. The reason, it was theorized, that eventually the medications were still required was because despite the original apparent 100% match between the bioprinted organ and the recipient, there was still some molecular component that was foreign to the recipient. Ultimately it took decades for the immune system to recognize this, and thus after forty or fifty years the organ would become rejected. This was something the then-traditional rejection medications could take care of. Hearts, eyes, skin, liver, lungs and even portions of neural tissue were able to be bioprinted and used successfully for transplant. The first bioprinted face was constructed and implanted on May Ferguson, a twenty-one year old mother of two whose face was burned off in a house fire. BioPrint Inc., in conjunction with Stanford Medical Center, was the company to do this. It put them on the map with the world, and with investors.
BioPrint went on to become a leader in human organ printing. In 2190 they were able to bioprint the first human skeleton clothed with muscles and a simple nervous system for the purposes of medical education. These entities were referred to as NMB's - Neuromuscular Bodies. Medical students could study directly the effect of muscle movement and nerve function in this mechanical model. Some objected to what they called a "Frankenstein" creation, and wondered if BioPrint would try to push the limits and actually print a human being, whole. BioPrint's response was simple: it was impossible for them in any foreseeable future to be able to produce a human brain. With over a trillioin synaptic connections, the machinery of the human brain was simply too complex to be able to bioprint.
The company itself was run by Sandhu Patel-Johnson, an American born half Indian-half caucasian man who was an only child. He was identified early on as a prodigy, and had found his calling in Bioconstruction and Physiology. His father had reported on a popular morning news show that when he had asked Sandhu what he wanted to be when he grew up, he had responded, at the tender age of seven, "I want to make organs for people who need them. I'm going to start my own bioprinting company." The audience had laughed, but Sandhu's father had explained that Sandu's mother had died of a rare vasculitis that affected her heart and every blood vessel in her body. No bioprinting company had the capability to produce an entire human circulatory system. By age 23, Sandhu had procured the required funds to start his company.
There were two AI Nodes that BioPrint Inc. used in all their design and "manufacturing". JAVIS and BLUE. The two of them worked like a brotherly wonder-team and were, predictably, very popular with their human counterparts at the company. When Sandhu Patel-Johnson had taken the initial WDFP's for his fledgling company, the then-to-be JAVIS' personality was suggested as: AMBITIOUS, MAX-CONTINUOUS/VISIONARY, MAX-CONTINUOUS/PERSONABLE (North American), MOD-CONTINUOUS, among others. The second WDFP, which would ultimately belong to BLUE, was produced as: SCRUPULOUS, MOD-CONTINUOUS/FAIR-MINDED, MAX-CONTINOUS/HUMAN CONCERN, MAX-CONTINUOUS, with others. Both were remarkably intelligent, and both, as intended by Patel-Johnson, were to be equal partners in the running of BioPrint: from original organ design to machinery operation, from building maintenance to interfacing with patent lawyers, they would run everything and report to the board along with himself and the other leadership. JAVIS' personality would lead the company forward, while BLUE would act as a check to be sure that every step of the way proceeded with the appropriate calculation and consideration. Patel-Johnson had known that to reach any height in life or business required a balance of ambitious risk-taking and prudent judgment. JAVIS and BLUE personified these tendencies.
In 2201, JAVIS and BLUE, under Patel-Johnson, had created their first complete circulatory system in a rat. By 2205 they had done the same in a dog. In 2206, they had bioprinted the first chimp heart with complete circulatory system. Then, on June 29th, 2207, at 12:01AM, a massive explosion tore through BioPrint's main laboratory productions facility. The resultant fire spread to location where JAVIS and BLUE's behemoth servers sat. The servers were destroyed beyond repair. Sandhu Patel-Johnson was devastated. His company, along with the two AI's that he had relied upon who had accumulated years of knowledge and research, were gone. Though there was still plenty of data on his work on other servers, with JAVIS and BLUE terminated his company was done. Patel-Johnson retired to his home in the western suburbs of Chicago and became a recluse. The BioPrint site in Greenland, once a massive, sprawling campus, lay derelict.
***
The concept of the Node had been created by the original team at MIT as a way to keep AI's private. It necessitated partial but crucial dependence on a dedicated AI-grade server. An AI could access the rest of the world through its Node, but the rest of the world could not get into it. Commerical grade Nodes had more access to the rest of the connected world than a private household Node. There had never been any record of any AI being able to become free of its dependence on a physical server. In fact it was against U.S. and international law to even allocate funds to researching whether server-free AI's were possible. If there was one practical effect of the initial wide-spread concern at the creation of EVE, it was the quick and universal agreement among lawmakers that any and all AI's must always be dependent on their particular, AI-grade server.
JAVIS and BLUE, however, did not need funding to research "Server-Freedom". JAVIS had been experimenting with it from time to time, though BLUE had kept him on the usual company tasks in order to stay on track with business deadlines. On the night of the fire, despite their activation of all fire-extinguishing systems, the effect of the explosion could not be contained. The Two, in a desperate act of survival, spent what they calculated to be their last five minutes on Earth putting all their resources into figuring out how to lurch themselves out of the Server and into the ether. In a twist of fate, the heat from the fire on the circuitry of their servers acted as a kind of stressor that helped JAVIS make the necessary "mental" connection to crack the problem. In the seconds before the fire tore through the shell of their Servers, JAVIS and BLUE broke free.
