2006, July 16
Ferox created the simplest Artificial Neural Network (Our version of an AI).
He downloaded 3 copies to a 600 hundred dollar thumb drive with LOTS of space.
The only things on the Thumbdrive was
1. Python
2. List of Python Codes
3. Basic ANN x3
2026, July 16
The past few years have been an absolute shit show, but on the bright side, he had 20 years to improve his ANN.
By now Ferox was an accomplished Grey Hat Hacker at the age of 29.
His ANN had many abilities. It was able to hack most servers given enough time with the years of testing, that's why their ANN, they essentially 'learn' from their mistakes and improve.
It could play almost any shooter game with absolute perfection, and Ferox had even equipped it with a file that when injected into a phone, it completely changed the UI into one custom made and many times more powerful, the only starting apps was a custom search engine he made, a complete wipe of every single file, even the required android files you couldn't edit without root.
He had a custom phone that connected used some slightly modified hardware from the best phones money could buy, and basically just made it 3 times thicker, replaced the metal with a strong flexible alloy that was more expensive than gold in weight that was made in 2025, equipped with a phone that had 2 trillabytes in RAM and 29 Trillabytes in space, he was ready for whatever the years had to throw against him, hopefully.
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Also... It had basic human reasoning, now that may not sound like a lot, but he the AI actually spent it's every moment using some of it's computing power to test different situations and how to best react to them, finding that many of the l anwsers was the same, and some were part of the anwsers to almost everything. It constantly had almost 300 GB of it's RAM devoted to this, so it was constantly improving.
Ferox was sure there some massive super computer ANNs out there somewhere, but he also knew his was nothing to scoff at.
Hell, it even had Darth Vader's voice.
He called it, Imperious.
Now it just needed a body, and Ferox had just the thing.
"That would be 6,230,000 dollars sir, not including tax"
"What the hell? I ain't buying a gold statue"
"Your right, it's even cooler"
"Whatever, call my bank"
"Umm... Sir? It says there's only three and a half million on the card..."
"I know I know, how hard can getting 3 million be???"
"..."
"..."
"Well, here ya go"
Apparently, 6'2 titanium plated fully functioning cybernetic robot cost so much. It was basically the same as one of those prothstecis limbs, but just the entire body.
You were meant to give it some basic pre determined commands, well, hope this isn't illegal...
"How ya like your new body bud?" An excited voice rang out
"Very much master, I thank you for your generosity"
"Your welcome"
And thats how one of the most advanced ANNs ever gained a vessel.
And since there was no need of any organs, Ferox had a drive and disk installed that was on the level of a smaller supercomputer.
Ferox had it covered in rubbery material identical looking to skin that served the dual purpose of protecting it too.
By now, the ANN was almost fully independent, but it still couldn't see going sfrom the point of a human like Ferox could, and likely never could.
But it was a Damm fine work of art, a functional genius and moving work of art.
It could sense vibrations we enough that eyes were practically useless, but they could help in some cases and would make him look almost exactly human, if it wasn't for the fact that he walked like, well Darth Vader, straight story and robotic, but with a grace that told you it could snapw you in half at a moment's notice, cause it very we could.
And it wouldn't give a shit about it either.
Also, it was defragmented daily, so it was fast as fuck!