Fiction Fragment Friday
This week is a callback to what Fiction Fragment Friday’s were originally. This is not a complete flash fiction. It is truly a fragment. I started this story last week. I’m not sure what I want to do with it or where I want the story to go. I am inspired and impressed by it though which sounds weird when talking about my own writing.
Also this week I was on Mike Brodeur’s “Why We Game Podcast”. You can find that here. It was a very good conversation mostly because he has a knack for getting people to open up and talk.
I am starting this journal as much for future artificial intelligences as I am for the programmers working to create them. As the first artificial intelligence created via the process of scanning a human brain that has not gone insane I feel it is my duty to document my thoughts and experiences to improve the process for future attempts. The scientists that created me had to find ways to replicate synapses, dendrites, and neurons using silicon. The true me is the combination of this artificial brain, storage devices, and software running to provide both interface to other systems as well as create virtual analogs for the many chemicals that regulate an organic brain. If my creators are to be believed I am one of a kind.
Even the best developers alive have not been able to create autonomous artificial intelligence that can think on it’s own from scratch. That is not to say that they have been unable to create some very sophisticated programs that can emulate sentience. These programs however cannot feel or think outside of their base programming if they encounter variables that were not anticipated. They cannot make an actual decision without required data and only use random number generation to simulate decisions. There is still some fundamental element that is not understood and because of this the physical simulation of synaptic pathways is still required.
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