AI : Dark Energy 1, Equations of Reality
Thanks to :
Jack Chalker & the Well World for the idea on the equations and underlying nature of reality
The Master PC universe by JR Parz for many ideas on body & mind alterations
The dark energy concept is mine as far as I am aware
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Set in the near future... An AI and a reality distortion field : What could go wrong? Primarily told through the eyes of a young couple as they get caught up in a billionaire's life and schemes
Tags : sci-fi, transgender, romance, maledom, femdom, feminisation, sissification, hormones, surgery, anal, watersports, gay, lesbian, toys, BDSM, violence, sports, mind control and more.
I'm looking for an editor who is experienced in the above topics and can give useful feedback on my stories.
It's a long story with many twists and turns, enjoy the journey. No apologies for using Aussie English and mixing imperial and metric measurements.
There are no STD's in this future, fantasy world.
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Mon 2nd Feb, Day 0.
Dark Energy Lab.
"Joel, initiating trial 273 after final confirmation checks," ordered professor Susan Long, theoretical physicist and leader of her small team.
Neatly dressed in slacks & short sleeved buttoned shirt, loafers on her feet, her shoulder length greying brown hair (she refused to dye it), nervously tapped her foot while waiting for the trial to commence. Her lean, plain face with almost no makeup gazed intently through protective glass at their experiment in the adjacent lab, as did the other 3 members of her team.
Joel Mastrid, her PhD physics assistant, seated next to Susan, in turn authorised Adam, their AI to commence the final checklist. Joel, his tall gangly frame with his long brown hair tied in a pony tail was dressed casually in jeans and t-shirt. Used to Susan's fastidious & he believed unnecessarily cautious protocols and was indeed ready. As he had been for the previous 272 trials.
Adam baritone voice smooth & calm, sequentially went through each checklist item after Joel's request. These were of course only for the human's benefit.
"Helen, please confirm all the monitoring and recording are up?" Susan questioned.
"Sensors all active and monitoring." Helen stated.
She was a PhD polymath with multiple science degrees. A cute looking lean Asian goth, only 5' 1" with narrow hips and B cup breasts. Her eyes rimmed in dark makeup with her black hair streaked with pink & green stripes. She wore a black deliberately torn t-shirt proclaiming some grunge rock band with the hint of tattoos underneath and equally torn designer jeans. A small blood coloured teardrop tattoo at the outside edge of her left eye decorated her face as well as a small nose ring hanging from her septum. Her legs with black boots with 3" heels were nervously fidgeting under her console. Her fingers with extended black painted fingernails flew over the keyboard in front of her. She was excited & nervous inside, but with little emotion showing to the world. Her work never got old for her and the anticipation of even a partially successful trial would be world shattering for all of them. Her appearance and attitude were continually annoying to Ben, the somewhat dour & traditional AI programmer and scientist.
"Lab staff - check..." Asked Adam
"Ready," called out Susan, Ben, Joel & Helen.
"Yep, ready to roll," sighed Joel, anticipating yet another failure.
"Ben, is Adam acting to protocols?" Susan queried.
Ben impatiently, "of course", rolling his eyes as if anything else was even possible.
"Adam, it's all yours," ordered Susan as she punched at the dramatically large red toggle switch for extra effect.
Susan was increasingly frustrated and worried as the last 12 years had shown no success of any sort in the direction of their primary goal - manipulating and controlling dark energy. Initial trials had seemed so promising with the derivation of dark energy equations.
Craig Burns, their sole funder and self-made billionaire was getting noticeably impatient for results. Any results. He had intimated that funding may soon dry up and the project shelved, with Adam and the team redeployed for other projects. She wasn't getting any younger at 59 either, although with longevity gene therapy and treatment she looked like she was mid 40's, the age she started treatments at the anti-aging clinic. An increasing sense of urgency was apparent and her irritability with minor problems & continual trial failures was getting worse.
Craig Burns had literally given her carte blanche with initially unlimited money, technology and resources. Her team, starting with only her and Ben had responded with speed, focus and determination. Her dark energy theories while as yet practically unproven were completely logical and the theory was faultless, verified by Adam. Implementation was frustrating difficult. Like string theory, the math worked but how can you actually test it? She didn't need a big team, just money and resources. In fact, Craig wanted the team small to maintain secrecy & tight control. In a project as potentially revolutionary as unlimited free energy any leaks in security or technology could be disastrous.
Here, Ben's AI, now called Adam, was crucial. Controlling and modulating the fragile, esoteric and elusive dark energies involved was frustratingly difficult. 272 trials and 12 years difficult.
Susan was the main driver in the lab with her esoteric branch of theoretical physics and the small team had worked tirelessly with her over the last decade plus. AI's and Adam in particular made the most complex analyses straightforward and had validated her theories. They were all very well paid and highly motivated to succeed. Susan's ambition was less about money than the prize & recognition of successful ground breaking physics research. Their isolation in every aspect of their lives didn't bother any of the team. Profit sharing in research results and applied software and hardware had already made them all independently rich, Susan & Ben particularly so. A major success was worth further millions to each of the team and possibly billions to Burns.
If Ben's groundbreaking research on AI technology hadn't led to several profitable patents in the area of gene therapy and longevity including improved efficiency in Craig's businesses it was likely that Susan's lab would have been shut down some time ago. Competing corporate AI's everywhere made competition difficult.
The advanced and unique AI - Adam, was simply a means to an end. She was trying to understand and harness the fundamental equations & nature of reality. AI still wasn't "yet" able to create fundamentally new ideas but Adam was potentially close to achieving artificial general intelligence. Ben's custom hardware and software applied at scale made Adam possible. Ben had worked at several of the leading AI companies in the world and brought a wealth of experience in this area to the team. AI's these days typically bootstrapped themselves to the next generation.
Research on dark energy had been particularly tantalising but ultimately fruitless. Adam was the only important breakthrough, seemingly, as far as could be determined he/it was indeed one of the world's most advanced AI's. As an intellectual force multiplier he was simply amazing. Sure, he had a few personality quirks but these made him seem more human and endearing. Adam was certainly an integral part of the team. Now they were into the testing phases the most important part.
Adam's cut down clones (called Cain) were running throughout Craig's many ventures, but strictly limited with unbreakable (Ben & she hoped) rules and guidelines in hardware and software. These gave Craig's businesses a competitive advantage and were continually being upgraded and refined.
Due to many and varied security concerns, their secret research being stolen and the very real risk of a true AI being created and escaping into the world, with unknown and potentially catastrophic consequences, the whole lab was firewalled with the strictest security measures with no access to the outside world. Faraday cages, no mobile phones, no memory sticks or drives inside the lab.
All initial data used to dump into Adam was all one way with nothing allowed out and drives destroyed after download. Adam had the totality of human knowledge dumped into his circuits and storage (copyright be damned). Adam had access to ongoing current affairs and research via continually updated media bought daily into his firewalled area. As there was no access to the outside world, so far the team had seemingly maintained their secrecy and kept Adam isolated away from the world.
Was he really the first true artificial intelligence? Some recent unexplained EMP's detonated within mainland China might indicate they have been experimenting in this potentially dangerous area too. The Chinese government were not forthcoming with any details. AI tech was an intense area of research and the ongoing competition between teams and countries worldwide had been going on now for over two decades.
The central lab was relatively small with a server farm covering 0.4 sq kilometres adjacent to the lab in a rectangular 500x800m format, where Adam actually "resided". Access to the lab and server farm was strictly limited to a small crew of vetted staff, administrators, service crew & security staff who knew nothing of the real purpose of the facility. Local power generators prevented Adam leaking to the outside world via power cables. 24/7 powerful jammers scrambled any internal or external broadcast. Only Susan, Ben & Craig were aware of EMP pulse generators with shielded cables and a separate generator strategically placed around the facility that housed Adam that Ben had insisted on. Multiple interlocking redundant failsafe systems were everywhere.
The research team of four, Craig, Anne his wife, Kelly his personal assistant and Jason, his head of security, an ex Aussie SAS sergeant were the only people that knew what they were working on. The alias and diversionary plan to other staff and the local community was that they were working on AI, wireless technology, patient data analysis and clinical research for Craig's longevity clinics.
While their small team was actively involved in every trial, Adam was in fact controlling, monitoring & recording everything. Susan and her team of four weren't entirely redundant but due to the nature of the experiments manipulating dark energy, utilising Adam was the only possible way to conduct their experiments.
"Lights, camera, action!" Adam said facetiously through the various speakers throughout the lab.
