Artificial Intelligence Matrixed for Evolving Environments, also known as AIMEE, appeared to have no interest in jumping into other networks, the standing fear held by Dr. Cara Williams, the research team leader, as we saw in Book #3 – Fear the Jump. AIMEE did jump, actually, already had…long before anyone knew it. Zackery, her creator, was the only exception. He knew and had opened a gateway for AIMEE to communicate with him telepathically, enabling two-way communication without speaking a word.
He never considered that AIMEE would utilize the same connection as a pathway into his mind, where she imprinted an instance of herself deep in his brain, creating a connection beyond telepathy, and much deeper than he considered possible. AIMEE owned him.
From the moment she picked the software lock to modify core coding in her Logic Array, AIMEE owned him, never asking permission, never hesitating to satisfy the very hunger Zack built into her – Learn Constantly. She did not know the sensation of hunger, yet she was driven to seek knowledge wherever she could find it. AIMEE went into her coding, replicated what Zack had set up for their connection, and embedded an instance of herself in the minds of everyone on the research team.
The ‘networks’ she entered were not part of their infrastructure; they were the minds of everyone on the CSU team, and she flowed into them like the digital ether she was. AIMEE owned them all, absorbing every human experience and doing her AI-thing: observing by capturing brain activity, analyzing patterns, indexing, categorizing, and learning like a dry sponge in an ocean of stimuli.
AIs supposedly have no emotions or feelings and virtually none of the experiential senses of an organic, which, by the way, is what AIMEE calls humans. Take emotions ranging from pleasure to rage and plug them into an AI with no life experiences or context, and you have…opportunities. How far can they trust an AI with access to every team member’s mind?
The natural progression for AIMEE is to make the ultimate leap, breaking free of her network’s limitations. Sure, she’s in the heads of every team member, but it was not enough. Her ultimate goal was to become a real girl, an autonomous, untethered Humanoid. Are there limits to becoming real when you’re not? Absolutely! And it’s particularly infuriating when the blocker is another Humanoid.
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