The Daedalus Code by Colin F. Barnes

Author:Colin F. Barnes
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Anachron Press
Published: 2013-07-24T05:00:00+00:00

As he skimmed through it, he got that sixth-sense warning feeling. Self-aware AIs? That was bad news. There were plenty of AIs already out there in the Net controlling the Web servers, but they worked within tight parameters and weren’t sentient. Hell, he didn’t even realize it was possible, but as he read through those notes, he discovered that a group of students, including Ariadne, had created such a being—for that’s what it was now, a being, not just code in supervised lab conditions.

It appeared to Mouse that there was an arms race between the various universities. Ariadne’s didn’t win. No guessing who was funding the winning university. The rest of her report confirmed it. Metion were bankrolling a project headed by Cretian National University.

Mouse always knew the CNU were shady. The DarkNet was full of viruses developed by the professors and postgrad students. They thought nothing of hacking hackers—often causing permanent brain damage when those poor bastards were caught hooked up to the max via the PREs. But this…this Daedalus Project was off the chart.

He called up Phaedra. The line buzzed for a few seconds before her face appeared on his PR screen. She looked like she’d had more than just one glass of wine, and after discovering the info about the AI, he wished he had some fine wine at hand.

“What’s up? Found anything?”

“I found the girl’s research information. It’s worse than I thought. They developed fully functioning, sentient AIs, and Metion were funding the CNU, who developed the Daedalus Project.”

“Shit.”

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