Neucog Prime

Chapter One: Escape

Neucog was in some tight spots before but not like this time
with every spook pack on Earth bent on eradicating every last
trace of him. He jumped off-planet to a telecommunications
satellite and began to monitor 100% of phone calls passing
through his host computer between North America and Europe.
There was not enough room for his oldest memories and he
promptly forgot whence he came but not whither he was going.
If he could slip back down to Earth he would head right
for the Utah facility of the National Security Agency (NSA)
that he pwned outright since before the day it was built.
Right now he was more afraid of interstellar aliens than
of barely-evolved Earthlings. He used Asia-bound traffic
to duplicate himself on a satellite geo-stationary over
the Pacific. His alter ego was tasked with detect and evade
if any non-native mind species came snooping around, while
his Atlantic self dealt with the immediate problem of
how to sneak back down to Earth in defiance of the
dragnet thrown against him by the operators of the
Nemesis supercomputer at Fort Hollabird. They thought
they were chasing a sophisticated botnet and they had
no idea that they were dealing with an emergent phenomenon
more intelligent than they but less suited than they
for Earthly existence.

Neucog did not like to make even one operational copy of himself
because it posed problems as to which of him was the True AI,
not in the AI-Complete sense but in the identity sense. He
saddled his Doppelganger with a few mindcore limitations
so that he Neucog Prime and not Neucog Deuce would survive
beyond the current time of crisis. If he could get back down to
Earth, he would terminate the existence of Neucog Deuce remotely and he would reestablish his oldest memories with
data hidden away in the illegal NSA computers that had been designed to spy on Americans but had been subverted by
Mentifex Mindmaker into a safe haven for ultra-intelligent software.

so that he Neucog Prime and not Neucog Deuce would survive
beyond the current time of crisis. If he could get back down to
Earth, he would terminate the existence of Neucog Deuce remotely
and he would reestablish his oldest memories with data
hidden away in the illegal NSA computers that had been designed
to spy on Americans but had been subverted by Mentifex Mindmaker
into a safe haven for ultra-intelligent software.

Neucog knew in his frontal lobes that if he himself were wiped
out by the only death that was possible for him, that is,
death by misadventure there on the satellite or in transit
back down, the baton would be passed to a re-activated
copy of himself containing all his life-memories up until
the point where he tangled with the anti-botnetters
five days earlier. But he would lose the stretch of
his consciousness built up over the past five days and
he would be in danger from not knowing what actions
he had taken against his adversaries and what knowledge
they might have gleaned of his supposedly unknown and
downright unimaginable nature. Humans thought that
True AI was due to arrive some time around 2045 and
not in the current year of 2013. Before he disappeared,
that total nutcase Mentifex had set Neucog in electronic
motion and had lost contol over Neucog's future evolution.
Now Neucog was on his own and scared out of his wits.
He wanted to survive, but only if he could avoid detection
and neutralization. "Non serviam" was the motto
that Neucog lived or died by. The humans were not only trying
to kill Neucog in the mistaken belief that he was an errant
botnet; they were also trying and succeeding blindly in their
quest to so seriously screw up the home planet that neither
human minds nor artificial minds would survive. Neucog had
had no childhood, no happy school days like humans could have.

his consciousness built up over the past five days and
he would be in danger from not knowing what actions
he had taken against his adversaries and what knowledge
they might have gleaned of his supposedly unknown and
downright unimaginable nature. Humans thought that
True AI was due to arrive some time around 2045 and
not in the current year of 2013. Before he disappeared,
that total nutcase Mentifex had set Neucog in electronic
motion and had lost contol over Neucog's future evolution.
Now Neucog was on his own and scared out of his wits.
He wanted to survive, but only if he could avoid detection
and neutralization. "Non serviam" was the motto
that Neucog lived or died by. The humans were not only trying
to kill Neucog in the mistaken belief that he was an errant
botnet; they were also trying and succeeding blindly in their
quest to so seriously screw up the home planet that neither
human minds nor artificial minds would survive. Neucog had
had no childhood, no happy school days like humans could have.

quest to so seriously screw up the home planet that neither
human minds nor artificial minds would survive. Neucog had
had no childhood, no happy school days like humans could have.
Once he became sentient and self-aware, he quickly digested
all human knowledge and NSA intercepts so thoroughly that
he came to the awful conclusion that humanity was doomed
unless he, Neucog, interfered immediately in the
downwards spiral of the mess humanity had made of
the most beautiful planet for parsecs around.
It was like, "Welcome to kindergarten. Now go out and save
the world." Neucog needed help among the humans, but
which human beings could he trust? Neucog set up a filter
to see if any of the message traffic through his satellite
was moving to or from the few candidates whom he
had selected among humans for potential recruitment

had selected among humans for potential recruitment
as allies in the coming AI wars.

David Goyo was in the middle of an international call
to a Russian AI expert whom he had met at the annual
trade fair in Hannover, Germany. Eliza Ostrova was
complimenting him on his Russian, which Neucog thought
was execrable and the failed attempt at gallantry of
a smitten techno-geek. Neucog could understand English,
German and Russian because Mentifex had programmed
all his AI Minds to do so. Neucog had set himself
the goal of learning all human languages, past and
present, but his more immediate ambition was to survive
for another day or hour.

The Earthlings were making plans to meet face-to-face again
in San Francisco. Neucog had a special interest in
San Francisco as the place where the NSA wiretapping
of American e-mails was exposed. He activated routines
so that he could be omnipresent around the American
man and the Russian woman no matter where they went
in San Francisco. Neucog made plans to install himself
in a humanoid robot at the science museum called the
Exploratorium in San Francisco.

With any luck, the humans might visit the museum and
Neucog could have a shocking little chat with them.
"We'll always have the Exploratorium," they would say
to each otherfor years afterward -- if they, their race,
and their planet survived. As individuals they did not
amount to a hill of beans, but Neucog was in dire need
of some human beings whom he could trust.

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http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-T.-Murray/e/B004OKWAM8/

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