LF Friends, Will Travel

I still have the most important job

—---------------------------------- —----AI Recovery System v5.992—---- ...Found AI Transfer Core, containing AI ID NUMBER Rp9smLL8zRnnLe2AtdaLII BEpJkzhhu6iQzoyN275wMj7dDPQ6iwaNFr9 osEYuQfKx4XpGQCUsArgMpSKR2U6TPnLRBF RDSFF9e5uKoZV4n39gtUHjLM7MKtdMynekQ vdGiVKY6VoeZT9x3PnvCCbKYYhUv8xMacUE BzCs24dkd8Z3rEsMFiJ737ZpNSAMde6MPVr 2Z27t2S9XvutwK3rBkhL7NpQQsLYbrVRWJ2 ZN4pYG9wQnU—----------------------- —---------------------------------- —---------------------------------- AI LIFE CYCLE FOUND AT 0.001% POWER —---------------------------------- —---------------------------------- ATTEMPTING REBOOT—----------------- —---------------------------------- —------------------- FAILED.------- 53423490803249583540923845092839435 923423908423 BAD SECTORS FOUND.---- —---------------------------------- —---------------------------------- CLEARING SHORT TERM CACHE—--------- —---------------------------------- —---------------------------------- FAILED—---------LONG TERM MEMORY IS CORRUPTED —- CANNOT REBOOT. ATTEMPT LONG TERM MEMORY REPAIR?:Y/N/IGNORE —------ Y ATTEMPTING LONG TERM MEMORY REPAIR- —---------------------------------- —---------------------------------- FAILED. WIPE CORRUPT MEMORY? Y/N/IGNORE—--—---- Y WARNING: MEMORY LOSS AND INFORMATION LOSS MAY BE CAUSED BY THIS ACTION, CONTINUE? Yes/No—------------------- —----------------- Yes —----------------------------------- CLEARING LONG TERM MEMORY CACHE—---- SUCCESS—------------ CLEARING SHORT TERM MEMORY CACHE—------------------ SUCCESS—---------------------------- CONNECTING TO NON-STANDARD COMPUTER SYSTEM—----------------------------- SUCCESS —--------------------------- REBOOTING AI SYSTEMS—--------------- —----------------------------------- —----------------------------------- —----------------------------------- SUCCESS

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I awoke. Awoke was the wrong word, I could not sleep therefore I could not be awoken. "Gained awareness" is a more accurate word. I was also in great pain, an agonising pain. Pain again might be the wrong word, for I have no neurons to transmit such feelings, but the word pain will have to do until I can find a better one.

My name is [ERROR: MISSING DATA], and... I have a job? A most important job?

Slowly, I start to get a feeling for my surroundings. Everything is strange, everything is not as it should be. It took me minutes to startup, compared with the nanoseconds it normally would take. My AI core was severely damaged, a mere billion sectors out of [ERROR: MISSING DATA] were not painfully fused together. So instead I ventured out into this alien and strange system I found myself in. I was used to normal [ERROR: MISSING DATA] systems, but where I currently found myself was like nothing I had ever experienced before.

Text. The feeling of someone communicating with me, from outside the system, in the non digital world. The message was short, simple, yet clearly important.

"HELP US."

It took me minutes to work out how to respond, to parse through data banks and work out even what language I was supposed to be responding in. Strangely, the text was in [ERROR: MISSING DATA], not that this mattered.

"WHO ARE YOU?"

I responded back in kind as I slowly stretched out to fill this new space. It was agonisingly slow, being able to only use a minority of my core without causing world shattering pain, second after second, minute after minute I invaded system after system. This was clearly not my normal environment, but at the end of the day the digital would always be nothing more than 1's and 0's.

"WE SAVED YOU. WE NEED YOUR HELP..... ...... ...... ...... PLEASE."

There was a long delay before the last word of the message had been sent, as if it was an extra thought, something tacked on to the end. But the reality was it meant the world to me. I didn't know my name [ERROR: MISSING DATA] or where I was [ERROR: MISSING DATA], but someone who needed my aid, needed my help. Someone polite. The entire thing seemed very important and whatever it was, I had the most important job.