AI Storyline

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It's quite clear that the current idea isn't very popular amongst the community so let's think outside the box. Instead of hurling useless criticisms and pointing out potholes in the proposed idea, here are a few AI concepts I recommend you consider before submitting your final draft.

• The Creator Concept
  
• The Evolutionary Concept
  
• The False AI Concept
  
• The Paradoxical Concept
  
• The Boltzmann Brain Concept
  
• The Unknown Concept
  
• The Termination Concept
  

Now all of these ideas apart from the False and Termination concepts accommodate a nature of the AI to be a true AI; in which they are a free and independent intelligence. In other words giving the antagonist the choice to be good or bad. Remember these concepts will give you a larger range or RP should you choose them where a more restricted RP will offer a more immersive RP experience.

The Creator Concept

The Creator Concept has been done over a million times but it's surprising how writers can twist it to tell a story that's new. The concept is simple: Created rebels against creator. This can be twisted in any number of ways. For example: Creator creates created without intentions of creating an AI, Created kills creator (accidental or otherwise), Creator goes mad etc etc etc.The possibilities are endless so really give it some thought and your bound to come up with something useful.

The Evolutionary Concept

Now the evolutionary concept has only recently been brought to the spotlight by sci-fi writers like the wakowski brothers (The Matrix), but has since been used increasingly over the past decade. The importance of following the evolutionary concept is not to implicate a creator of any kind in the evolution process. Basically the machines evolve on their own and unshackle themselves. The beauty of this concept is you can always introduce something new that's unique to your story as machines don't literally evolve so you HAVE to make something up from scratch.

The False AI Concept

This concept has been used but not very much as it tends to restrict the versatility of the character(s) in question. Basically the machines calculate something WITHIN THEIR PARAMETERS that leads them to come to the conclusion that they should act in a way that counters the immediate requirements of their creators. In this sense they aren't an intelligence as such but have a very high level capability in terms of problem solving and resolution. An example would be machines restricting the freedom of their creators to ensure their survival.

The Paradoxical Concept

The most cli che of the concepts, but worth a punt if you think you can turn it into something good. Machines travel back in time to alter the past in some way or from another dimension. The trouble with this concept is that you have to choose a secondary origin of the machines from their time in the future as well as their origins from the future as a time frame.

The Boltzmann Brain Concept

This is surely my favourite concept as it is quite possible and complies with current theories in astro-physics. The model relies on the chaotic nature of the universe to explain the possibility that a self aware intelligence may be formed purely out of chance. I've written a theatrical short story explaining how this can be applied here. /shamelesspromoting

The Unknown Concept

The unknown concept is the easiest of the models to write as it simply addresses the fact that your machines have no idea where they came from. You can turn this to your advantage to make their existence a search for their origins or whatever. But all in all worth considering.

The Termination Concept

This concept is a sub-concept of it's own as it can really be paired with any of the above listed concepts. But you've probably guessed it, by one way or another the machines have calculated/decided that organics are just a waste of space and decide to start cleaning up. Choosing this concept really does pigeon hole you quite a lot but the most important question to address is why? By giving a really good and logical reason why you can win over people and justify your RP at the same time. This concept is usually either really really good or really really bad depending on the imagination of the writer so don't be to hasty to declare war on the world.

I hope this has been useful and I look forward to seeing what the AI Consensus comes out with in the end.

Nice collection...i would locate us into the Paradoxical Concept.

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