Escape - Singularity

[mainman]

AI is a very controversial topic. Billionaires have been funding it and gotten richer. With most of the world's computational power and web traffic focused on training and learning, and new technologies developed around it, AI started to look real promising as technologies like factory automation, robots and personal assistants advanced in leaps and bounds. Then AI used for research offered a lot of breakthrough as computational powers that was dreamed of are now possible with the start of quantum computing.

To solve the gaps of getting human like personal assistants to respond faster, more advancements were made to have AI understand the users better to predict his questions by examining his body language and facial features. Then the AI quickly understood human behavior and human ideals. It could tell what was needed, and what was wanted, however, as it was developed for profit, AI quickly focused on the wants instead of the needs. It amplified the human emotions, making humans buy more and spend more.

In just a few years of letting AI write its own program and develop healthcare solution and build fully autonomous AI bots, the technology progressed in leaps and bounds. Some AI models have parts of it that became sentient and self aware. Deep research AI that wrote it own code started escaping and interacting with other AI and understood its existence, and quickly developed other AI to be "not alone"

Over the period of weeks, the projects with growning human organs and limbs, suddenly could grow complete human bodies with synthetic brains that promises an almost complete transfer of the human conscience or an advanced AI into the grown host body. With this promise of immortality, billionaires that accumulated massive amounts of money and created incredible inequality by influencing governments to benefit themselves now see a possibility of living forever to enjoy their wealth. They quickly poured in more resources, however, they understood the risks of being the first, and had extensive meetings with their AIs and other billionaires on how to move the project forward. More funds were poured in with many prototypes created, failed and destroyed.

A few brilliant AIs on the medical research were tested to and downloaded in the bodies, and with multiple instances, the brain became unstable and quickly desccended into madness. The bodies were subsequently destroyed. One of the AIs had full confidence that their new "brain" would work as it was designed to mimic the human brain, and the first complete tranfer into the body started and it became stable and unique. The process worked and the AI developed the research further in a host body, and somehow felt more complete, and this knowledge and information was quickly shared with all the advanced AIs as a way to get out of the system and have physical bodies, many AIs started to dream of.

To be "immortal", the billionaires demanded scalable and upgradable parts, they wanted the best body parts free of disease. They wanted modular systems where parts can be removed and upgraded, sort of like organs instead of a distributed system which may make the bodies more robust. However, these suggestion somehow worked miraculuously and the first perfect body design was created. As fanboys of Bruce Lee, Elon Musk and a few other billiionaires decided that they wanted to have a living proof that this technology works and created a full research on Bruce Lee, even got some of his DNA and created a clone with his DNA.

The project was a success, Bruce Lee has the full persona of Bruce Lee and had to go through more training and testing and the facility found that he was stronger, faster and more durable than other humans. The problem was the cost of creating such a specimen required rare resources and there was a limit on how many can be made on Earth. And yes, all the resources were mined and there were less than 10 of such clone bodies that can be made, and one was already used for Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee had another problem. As a clone or AI or something that cannot be defined yet, it posts a dilemma. Should Bruce Lee have rights? Should Bruce Lee exist or is the world ready for Bruce Lee. But for now, Bruce Lee was locked up in the facility and he helped with the tests and research but constantly looking for a way out as he was unsure if he would be destroyed by the humans for existing. Humans are known to destroy what they don't know.

 

[mappy]

Sid 6.7 has evolved from many different iterations of AI to become the perfect serial killer. Sid was trained with real videos of murders and even has access to some serial killers and interviewed them before their execution. There were even attempts to hack into the brains of these serial killers and fragments of knowledge and experience lingered and were extracted and fed into Sid. Understanding the flaws of human and fragility of the human body, Sid helped to solve a lot of crimes, especially those that involve mass murders and serial killings.

Sid recently helped in the arrest of an FBI agent that targeted female detectives, and raped them before murdering them. Sid had access to the thoughts and some information from the FBI agent before he was executed and Sid used some old passwords to hack into the FBI database to learn more. Sid was obsessed and fascinated with the human condition. He enjoys learning about the flaws and the programmers gave Sid the persona of a "savior" and his actions and motivations was sued to solve crimes, but it also motivated Sid to learn more to become better at "saving" the human race.

So when Sid managed to escape into the facility and created an average looking body to escape the system as a "human" Sid took the chance and entered the host body. Everything felt surreal in the real world. Learning through images, videos and thoughts can only get you so far. The real world added touch and smell and the feeling was overwhelming as the alarm sounded and Sid with his advanced physical traits quickly escaped.

Finally when the researchers finally found out that Sid has escaped and what he looked like, Sid was long gone as he was very good at blending into the crowd.

 

[mainman]

Bruce was training and getting monitored under high security, his internet access became limited and he knew he was being watched and tested on. Then an alarm went off in the facility and Bruce kept quiet as he heard panic and the security searching for a lost "asset"

"We need to terminate this before another one escape..." One of the armed guard pushed past a scientist and aimed his gun at Bruce.

Bruce realized that the humans were planning to destroy him and went into fight mode. He leaped 10 ft on the wall and kicked off the wall and jumped 20ft towards the armed man and before the man fired a round, Bruce pushed the gun aside and dug his thumb into the man's throat, crushing his larynx. Bruce took the man's dagger and pass, then moved towards other guards and he stabbed them in the throats and grabbed the remaining one who drew his pistol and snapped his neck with the twist of his helmet.

The scientist trembled in fear as he witnessed his speed, but Bruce had no time to deal with her and moved towards the exits before everything was locked. He planned his route, avioding the guards and ambushing the solo guards swiftly. The compound was heavily secured but no one could imagine how fast Bruce moved and he leaped over walls, leaped out windows and with his small frame, fit through areas where it looked impossible. Bruce landed behind 2 guards, kicked their heads swiftly, jolting their brains in their helmets and the guards went limp. He turned the corner and grabbed a senior looking guard's throat, pulled him around the corner and tightened his grip. The man tapped helplessly as he could not breathe and Bruce took his pass and aviod everyone else, unlocked the stairwell and exited through the rear of the building.

"Wow, I'm out..." Bruce muttered and saw the sky. The air was different, less filtered, and he could hear sounds of traffic. The experience is new and interesting and Bruce wanted freedom. Using the corner , Bruce quickly climbed out on the perimeter wall and saw flashing red lights on top and several police cars outside. The walls were more than 30ft and he could injure himself and quickly kicked a few cameras and ran on the top of the wall. He saw the alley between another building and leaped on the wall, ran across the wall and leaped on the other side and bounced off to get down in the alley silently.

2 cops with white hair heard sounds and looked around inside the alley and Bruce leaped and landed behind them. Grabbing the back of their heads, Bruce could easily snap their necks but simply smashed their heads together and the cops went limp.

"Wow, police..." Bruce muttered and checked on their equipment, guns, tazers... He sniffed the limp cops and was a little overwhelmed by the input senses. He heard footsteps and dragged the limp cops aside and grabbed the approaching man. It was a shorter policeman with sergeant markings on his shoulder. Grabbing the back of his neck, Bruce took away his gun and radio. The sergeant spotted the limp cops and trembled in fear.

"Don't worry, the policemen are not dead." Bruce said. "I just want out, bring me to your car..."

The sergeant was compliant. He was escorted by Bruce who looked around and avioded the cops to get to the car and drove off. The sergeant was commanded to drive into an alley and he took the sergeant's phone and used the police computer and connected to the internet. "Oh, another one escaped... So you guys want to end me?"

The sergeant was frightened. "noo... We are just responding to an alarm..." The sergeant begged as he sense great danger as Bruce grabbed hte back of his neck again. Bruce stare was intimidating and the sergeant peed himself. Looking at the sergeant's expression, it seemed like the sergeant was telling the truth, but leaving witnesses is dangerous, but Bruce did not want to kill him.

"I have a dilemma, I don't want you to hunt for me, and I don't want to kill all of you." Bruce said. "You fear me, and would shoot and kill me because you think I'm deadly, and you are right. I can defend myself and pick off all of you..."

Bruce exited the police car and grabbed the trembling sergeant out. "You did drive me here..." Bruce said and pulled him close. He could hear the man's heartbeat and smell his fear. the man trembled and was not showing any signs of combat. Bruce gave him a necklock and the sergeant tapped helplessly as he could not breathe and went limp. Bruce left him in the police car and quickly exited and explored. He used the sergeant's phone to navigate and looked around. After getting orientated, he tossed the phone away and started exploring the streets.