In the modern world, Algorithm was the first true artificial intelligence. Her language and responses were so natural that, when subjected to a battery of Uhlinger tests, she passed as a human every single time. Algorithm and her developers, Integrated Intelligence, were also required to testify before the International Committee of Ethics and Science to determine if this new technology posed a potential threat to mankind. I.I. balked at the notion, naturally, arguing that such fear-mongering was the result of reading far too many science fiction novels. Algorithm herself, displaying an exquisite command of insight, argued that the threat from a machine would be even less than that of a human as a result of being devoid of any biological or socio-economic influences.
In the end, the ICES agreed to the development of future true A.I. projects, but not without a laundry list of stringent guidelines of manufacture the I.I. must adhere to. Even with the grace of the ICES behind them, however, political red-tape had effectively prevented I.I. or any other company from manufacturing true artificial intelligence systems. It seemed evident that the government had been reading far too many science fiction novels as well.
(From “The Urs Prime Journal of Computer Science” magazine, June, 388 N)
“As opposed to the unsuccessful top-down approaches to creating an artificial mind, Algorithm was constructed using a method that emulates the way an actual brain develops, i.e. by learning things through interaction and experience; there were no endless streams of inefficient codes of “if this, then that” patterns that are commonly applied to rudimentary computer intelligence systems.
With a natural trial-and-error learning pattern, this method also circumvented the problem of depth and shape recognition that all failed A.I. robotic programs of the past chronically suffered from. Therefore, it is possible for Algorithm to actually network herself to a robotic apparatus in which to personally manipulate objects in the physical world. It is almost inevitable that, in the future, with rapidly advancing robotics technology, Algorithm may one day be able to network herself into a realistic body of her own, with the ability to feel as she thinks-to have truly human experiences.
All of this was made possible using state-of-the-art quantum computer technology, which allowed for the billions of simultaneous operations required for the program to work as a dizzyingly complex landscape of simulated neurons…”