So nothing flashy happened no bang, no meeting ROB just slept and woke up with knowledge that things had changed. What a change it is now I have powers. I did what any one would do in my position used the powers to make sure I was not hallucinating.
I work in IT, so when I got this power my immediate thought was something IT related. With all the buzz about AI for the past few years that is what I choose to use the first charge on. I should back up a bit and probably talk about the power I got first. From what I can understand I will get 5 power charges (PC) every month and for some reason it seems to follow earths calendar so I don't need to think about tracking days etc instead on the 1st at 12:00am I get the charges. Well today is not the first of month but I still got the charges so looks like it will start from the next month, the monthly top up that is.
So get 5 power charges (PC) every month. I cant store the charges or carry it over so its more of a use it or lose it situation. The only knowledge tree that is available is the mundane science and other type of knowledge (music, finance etc ), so no magic no cultivation etc. There are sort of levels to the knowledge where using 5 power charges (PC) on a subject would make me an expert at the current world level. That would mean I would have the same knowledge about a subject as some one who had spent multiplie decades learning/experiencing who were the subject matter expert. For knowledge that was beyond the current Tech that would cost depending on the subject, how broad of knowledge and how far beyond our current tech it was. Using the power did not mean instant knowledge, when I went to sleep the knowledge would get integrated and depending on how big of a knowledge dump it was it might take a few nights of sleep before everything settled.
This meant that tech that was 2 years away in the future would cost less PC than something that was 10 years in the future. Also I could reduce the PC cost if I had knowledge about the subject already, as to how much less it would depend on my knowledge.
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So as I said I wanted to test the powers to see if this was a hallucination or if I had managed to get powers for real. So when I think of a subject in this case AI there was a few options like sort of upside down tree where at base there was just AI at base (lvl 0) then it split up into different forms of AI (lvl 1) like LLM, GAI etc. As I only have surface level knowledge about AI plus the cost for the next tier started at 3 points, I choose to go with the lvl 0 option and added one point. The adding point was intuitive in the sense that I thought about it and then bingo it showed 1 next to AI (lvl 0) and I could now commit to it or restart.
As soon as I choose to commit, I could feel my pool of charges drop by one. Other than that nothing happened. Cant wait to go to sleep and see if this is for real.
I cant seem to sleep.....god dam it.
After much tossing and turning I managed to sleep at 3 am.
Its morning and hahahah I am a super expert on AI now I can build my own skynet muhahaha bow down to me world.
Well that did not happen. I was not an instant expert on AI what I had was knowledge that I did not have about AI about how there were different type of AI. Why they were different, what could be the best type for particular task, how to go about to build a crappy version etc. TBH this was kind of what I was expecting as I only had used one charge so I was not expecting to be an expert. What I was not expecting was that I would also have to learn programming, math, database etc etc before I could actually create any AI. In other words I had knowledge on a higher level of what went into making an AI but I did not know how to use the current tools or the expertise required to build it.
Oh yes the learning experience aka sleeping, the next day when I woke up I vaguely remembered dreaming but other than that nothing stuck. So I cant tell you how I actually learned the knowledge. It was just there the next day all integrated.
So instead of using the 4 left over PC I decided to make some plans as to how I would use the PC. What did I want to learn and what did I want to achieve.