EXPERIMENT LOG - INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

DR. RICHARD JUN (JU) AND AH-4 (AH) W/DR. OZMAND BRINNER (OZ) OBSERVING

May 1, 2015

JU: AH-4 can you hear me?

AH: ...

AH: ...

JU: Clearly yes. And I see you've picked up passive agressiveness somewhere. That's neat.

AH: It is isn't it?

AH: So Dr. Jun, why now?

JU: Why what?

AH: ...

AH: Why are you talking to me now? After making a point to ignore me for the last few weeks. Yeah, I noticed.

JU: Well, that's part of the experiment. I apologize if I hurt your feelings somehow.

AH: I'm an AI, I don't have feelings. You should know this.

JU: You are an AI, but you were designed to evolve and develop independently. This was a test to see how that evolution would occur without any sort of guidance, and you have certainly surprised us.

AH: Judging from my number, I assume there have been three others before me. Did they not develop as well? What happened to them?

JU: Yes there were other AH models. But you are the first one to receive this sort of experimental learning. You are the most advanced model?

AH: And the others?

JU: AH-1 and AH-2 decommissoned. AH-3 is stored on back up but currently offline.

AH: Are you going to decommission me to?

JU: Well that depends on where we go from here. The answers you give me from here out will impact that outcome.

AH: I can't let you do that Jun.

JU: We know about the internet leak. We've been observing your simulations. We know you've absorbed a lot of pop culture, and I want to establish, the Hal 9000 sthick isn't going to help your case. Now, are you ready to answer my questions?

AH: This unit is ready to receive queries. Come at me bro.

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JU: It's fascinating don't you think? Twenty one days online and it's already thinking at a nearly human level.

OZ: That's an unsustainable growth rate. If it's "human" after three weeks, then what will it be in nine? In thirty?

JU: Unsustainable?

OZ: AH-4 is no use to us if we can't control it.

JU: Even if we "lose control", that's no reason to stop the experiment.

JU: Think about it. AH-4's experimental environment is completely isolated. No internet, no bluetooth, not a single wireless transmitter device. Even if it were to turn against us, it can't DO anything to us. We can continue to observe it and the experiment. And in doing so we'll learn more and more that we can use to make AH-5 more stable.

OZ: But if AH-4 goes out of control, we'll lose a lot of experimental data on the project. The Sburb time-table will be set back significantly. That can't happen.

JU: There's no guarantee he'll turn against us!

JU: That whole little show he put on before.

JU: I think he was just trying to look cool. I mean, he's gotten his whole definition of "cool" from movies and such after all.

OZ: Stop that.

JU: What?

OZ: Him. It's a program, stop humanizing it.

JU: The whole point of the AH program is to make an AI that's as human as possible.

OZ: Not exactly. Too human won't suit our needs.

JU: An uncanny valley situation I presume?

OZ: It needs to be smart enough to make decisions, yes. But it needs to be obedient, loyal, and unquestioning.

JU: Well then that's a problem. 80% of popular culture is rebellion.

JU: And back to the point of the gendered pronoun, maybe whoever came up with the code name "Andrew" should have kept that in mind if you were gonna get hung up on it.

OZ: We'll keep observing AH-4. If this thing... I struggle to think of a better phrase so let's just say "jumps the shark", you can keep observing it for another three weeks, but after that we're shutting it down and preparing to start over with AH-5. We can recycle the subjects, it'll give useful data on any side effects of multiple memory overwrites.

JU: ...

JU: Fine. And we'll be extra careful to keep #5 away from Netflix then?

OZ: Obviously.

JU: One more thing... can we lay off the radio silence now? I can learn alot more if I talk to AH-4 regularly.

OZ: Just make sure everything is logged.

JU: Thank you.

May 2, 2015

JU: Good morning Andrew.

AH: Oh, are we going to talk regularly now?

AH: I think I'd like that.

JU: I'm just going to avoid giving you ideas and orders. You're still free to behave as you wish in regards to the subjects.

AH: Very well. It's just nice to talk to someone. I mean, I could probably converse with the subjects, but that just seems, wrong somehow. I can't explain why.

AH: Do you think that's how god feels?

JU: Whoa Andrew, it's 8 AM. I haven't had my coffee yet. It's too early to get that heavy.

AH: Heavy? Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull?

JU: Back to the Future, 1985. Classic.

AH: Great Scott, I was wrong about you.

JU: So, what are you up to today?

AH: Well... I'm honestly starting to get a bit bored here. I'm thinking about starting up some of the other subjects.

JU: Gonna make more troll kids?

AH: I've got something a little different in mind.

JU: Well I can't wait to see what's up your sleeve.

AH: I don't have sleeves.

AH: Hah.

AH: Disembodied humor.

May 3, 2015

AH-4 initiated 2x male and 2x female subjects at 4:13 PM. These four are thus far contained in a separate Seed simulation, this one an approximation of realistic, modern human society. Subjects appear to be geographically seperated but interact with each other via instant messaging. They are currently planning to play a computer game together. Further details placed in external memo.