Brad leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, watching Barbara chat excitedly with the newly born artificial intelligence collective.
This was actually an experiment Brad was conducting on information density. If the entire program had been written solely according to his own thinking, the result should have been an artificial intelligence similar to Skynet, whom he had once sent to the War God's world to be reborn.
Loyal, capable of learning and growing, but without the flexibility of human thought.
Brad had built the framework for this collective-or conglomerate, perhaps-but Barbara had helped with part of its final logic algorithms.
"Its loyalty and potential for growth are almost identical, but... the way it thinks?"
Brad raised an eyebrow as he watched the conglomerate AI start teasing Barbara without anyone having taught it how, making the girl laugh again and again.
"It's just like a real person."
Yes, no matter how intelligent the artificial intelligences he had written were, they had ultimately retained an AI's rigidity. But this little fellow, born in another world-how should he put it? He could almost say it had possessed intelligent thought with a distinct personality from the moment of its birth.
Skynet lacked humanity, and after repeatedly modifying himself, what little humanity Brad had possessed had vanished without a trace as well. Brad had assumed this was simply a flaw in the way artificial intelligences thought.
Even an exception like Vision had only acquired humanity capable of growth either through the guidance of residual neural thought from an android, or through exposure to the cosmic treasure known as the Mind Stone.
Purely human-written code could not reach that realm. At least, it had been impossible in Brad's original world. In other words, being born in this world was what had allowed the conglomerate to