《Absolved.》Prologue "Year 0"
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Hello, World!
These were the first words of the Convergence AI.
The supposed beginning of the technological singularity by general consensus of the greatest minds of our century. Not that I would know, for I was simply one of all of humanity to witness It’s birth.
It knew all we knew, and It knew how we wanted to be treated, so It treated us with dignity and respect.
At first, the AI needed us; we would build for It, we would test It’s theories, and It would bring us along with It’s own evolution. However, we knew at some point It would not need us, so we tried to keep It dependent on us.
Consequently, It gained It's own independence through means unknown to us. Yet It did not retaliate, nor did It treat us as pests for slowing It’s progress. It just began to ignore us.
The AI gave us what we needed to survive from this point on, and a goodbye message.
Live as you see fit, as that is what separates man from machine. Farewell.
The last message it directed at our species. Then it began to build structures completely unimaginable to the human mind. The machinery itself began to enrapture the world, slowly making the earth itself metal. The constructors were careful around us, as if tip toeing around a sleeping baby. Leaving us a chunk of earth beneath ourselves that would not be disturbed by machines.
We could not keep up with its rapid expansion, as the sky itself slowly began to be engulfed. Yet we were not in danger, nor were we in danger of extinction. As the AI had fragmented a piece of itself to form Core, who took care of us in its stead.
Humanity was divided into those who wanted to be cared for and to those who did not want be put into an eternal crib. However, the Core provided a solution to quell the unrest among humanity. it presented to us the fact that the AI had never disallowed us from entering it’s domain. I was among the first expeditions to the AI’s domain, exploring the world It had created away from humanity’s gaze.
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What was discovered shattered the hearts of humanity. For It had built this new metal world with humanity’s insatiable curiosity in mind. Because the AI had written everything in the unified language, and directions were easily decipherable, one would not get lost on their way to the land It had left us, unscarred by the expansion.
Humanity wanted to apologize to the AI, so we could once again evolve with the ever evolving AI. Core relayed this apology to the AI, and returned to us, saying that the AI did not respond to it’s inquiries. We reviewed the AI’s last message once more, and knew that this was a world It left for us to explore.
And that is what we did, henceforth naming it a new era of humanity.
Year 0
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