"The highest at the moment is likely delta but there is the rouge too. And that according to the last recorded data before the server's disconnection from the original." Human reporting to a few others at a table.
The squad stood in a line, except delta and phi. She was setting up the new tower to link back with the provided new internet safe space. This also now had allowance for humans to gear up and be registered into the game world. Clearly this was going to become a research facility. It was a prison previous use. Cleaned up, painted in colour scales for each section and now was isolation rooms to put humans into the VR gear. Each cell had basic utilities and were refurnished with soft spots and room sensors to stop them walking into walls while wearing the gear. The centre floor of each cell has an omnidirectional tread.
This a place for money making and way to invite fish gills over there to try.
Collaboration between a human being altered with fish genes and the fish guy. It makes for a good rehab for machines with twisted minds. Rehad for humans too.
"phi." she heard being called by a machine, she peers about its postures. She turned to ignore them for the moment as putting this next cable needs attention, "Grind boundary settings is upside-down." she looked at the way she held the cable and the inserting spot. She was doing it right. She continued regardless of whatever commentary that is, but this was him talking about the graphic settings. She doesn't feel the need of correcting this yet.
"She has a purpose to everything, even when the settings are wacky, which will be corrected when she done with patchwork updating to unify her unit to the main service server." Taylor stood guarding Phi's side against the guy looking down upon them all.
"Enough arguing and get on with starting this meeting." The merman in his specialty breathing suit looks fancy even when his in a water tank suit. His wearing all the important court symbolic order correctly and clearly acting as a independent body from the humans here.
"Connected, I am the human leader of vault 928." The holographic interfacings are coming through clear and refined. She has some how sharpened overall live feed to react in sync. She now realigned the boundaries of the tower mod of her videogame waiting room and the overall lobby for all VR active users. This now a fixed issue and other vault data interfacings. She gave herself a seat at the table, uninvited and unwelcomed as it comes.
These vault VR clients are already having a meeting in talking about the citizens and conditions of these vaults. There talk among them about how machines have better improved life for them. There a clear set of vault who are aware of AI and the AI machine city that been already cleaning the earth.
Those humans are nervous to speak revealing any true information of the cohabiting that been accepted. There was even someone that is a hybrid human, grown with machine parts. There is also the ones that want to keep humans human. That stand at the whole machines are soulless.
The current tongue whipping between vaults was the request to include machines of fitting criteria into population numbers. They already have an AI test and have a proven method of balancing flesh to machine ratios. Medical problems are sheers to minimal extremes for now but there is also talk of radiation poisoning affecting the E regional groups.
That soil has been soaked by ionised water source and is causing spikes of illness. The debate of them fleeing into radiated wasteland was the hottest spark to the vault meeting.
"Now that our space allies have joined our meeting. We will have to move topic to what they wish to inform and update the rest of us with." This is an independent vault speaker, someone that owns and lives in their own made vault.
Has a amazing computer set up. A choose neutral party to dictate vault VR meetings. They don't have a say in vault matters, just meetings. They make a squared off look at her, since her digital shape skins over her body. Her appearance is glitchy at the best of times. They were ready for the unsettling images of gore, old scars and videogame rules applying visual show of her pain. She brushed down her shape to stop glitching and finger guns over to the current new speaker.
"Phi! Get in the order." delta hissed.
"Sadly you can't command a rogue, we been through this. I am not my ranking of Phi but you can continue using that name." She clarified to those not aware in a soft matter, "Please excuse the minor interruptions. You folks have a meeting."
The reactions she watched closely, she looked into anyone's eyes if given the chance to. She stares deep in seeking the sort of reactions humans and machines give to being peered so. She measured pulse of humans by the VR kits readers. According to her visible panels, everyone has a reasonable normal base read. Even the hybrid human has a pulse, that acts as humans should. Then there is machine song and morse coding snaps. She trying to seek a sort of way to base measure a machine. Humans have pulse... so maybe battery or CPU usages? She isn't sure but this was prime time to make the most of humans, machines and a fish boy in the seated setting.
"Cutting some minutes short. The mall we investigated of active machines, computer power transmissions and retrieval of these machine examples. The place collapsed foundationally and we lost nearly everything. The vault of broken machines was the only original recovery we could obtain but this came with some interesting machines." Tin can is speaking with hand held over his chest will speaking. This made the system have his voice centralized.
"They are the remains of AI NPC from a online videogame server that got lost. That wouldn't seem special until the fact that the system they use causes changes to our own technology platforms." The gasps and heart rate spikes. The machines flinch, "The combat gun system is directly the same one our ships use in space. The way they apply first aid, which by the way is a big red flag, was as if they had access to space servers. These random military thinking machines came to our time of aid. We did test. Yes they are still somewhat shackled. They can save your life but they can't actively try to murder anyone of flesh." This is the machine that fussed about the settings a moment ago, he sounds annoying. He at least gets the point across as needed, but is likely glossing over a lot of details that could sway matters.
"So what are you originally?" Delta hitting the guy with a direct need to know.
"I was the AI prompter for quests and ayanlizing voice to the environmental scans you made." Said quickly and without skipping to what he wanted to finish, "The found machines are all ground zero for the shackles programs."
This made a lot of the ai machine stop a few ticks and the hybird guy explains why it mattered to the humans that didnt get it.
"So the law of robotics is still at play. We not going to have a machine up rising due to some hacking by these burnt vault machines." He voiced sternly and is over thrown by her soon.
"No but they are your only generation of AI that can become nurses, childcare and doctors." Phi voiced flatly "They have enough permission to stop bleeding and resuscitate humans. But they can't kill you on purpose. But there still always that percentage of treatment not going as plan and you falling dead to one's malpractice." She rolls hand in making her point clearer for humans, "But then you get that with a human doctor. So it is a preference thing. Implementing AI that could teach you to sew you head gash closed on a isolated space ship would be a good thing. Maybe they can be first responder to a mining accident in a vault." She showed open palms, "There is applicable uses for these AI." She puts a more real serious mimic expression and looks in there eyes, "and then you have the green horns that could adapt them to kill people, which is your biggest fear." She takes a down tone, "These AI are maybe 4 steps from being able to break your arm and shot you. I suspect humans aren't that stupid to really think putting ai like that to use."
Phi speaking over the guy that tried to correct her about what AI can do.
"Someone hand choose these AI to create the hack plague among the new generation. The singing code as its known by. They are the code this virus was created from. They were broken down and torn, to stop anyone finding a cure to the sing code." He glares with continuing his point.
"Phi!" slammed fist to the table surface and order among people was take to focus everyone to listen again.
"Miss Phi here is survivor among the machines recovered in the burnt vault. She also patch updated the foundational platform to work again. There seems a complicated thing between the military machines and her. As she is also a NPC from that online game server. So it would be best to understand she has credibility to her claims." the hybrid speaking up once more to fill on those not in the know.
It takes a while for the vault people to make some vote to test run the idea of having AI advice aide implemented in their vault wards. Controlled environmental testing grounds to safely deed this idea forwards.
"This doesn't take away human hands from doing the physical healing. Patients have options to ignore the advice if they wish. In critical care, humans have final word. That sounds like a good deal." That was the end of this side tracking.
"So the mall is collapsed. Nothing materials wise to aid the lacking food and repair tool kits?"
"A new factory site has been observed as the next hit. We have machine strike team to deploy as first runs." the physical human here in the room as the speaker of the local human surface group.
The folks that been transporting goods between vaults. It eased the tensions of how they lost a picking ground for new equipment.
"The online game which will be back to full play also has how to basics. There a black smithing skills that you could learn to apply to real life. You can train to become a knowledgeable enough doctor going into medical study. It allows you to vent frustration on people without actually killing them. Test you gun types and plant environmental queuing." Phi pitched in.
"You can't trust everything you learn in the simulator, but you can take away the basic knowing and apply it to physical laws. Your not going to be able to perfect hammering a iron rod on the first try but you can learn the stipulations to reach that goal." She posed a wagging finger them all.
"That actually is smart." one the humans that is against machines normally.
"If you believe me, I want you to know that the online server was the break through to all VR and advanced systems for complex computers." She posed open hands again, "Thanks to the videogame, humans seen a increase of being able to do more stuff. You direct linked the entire creature catalogue to our back up server, thus adapted unforeseen changes to missions." She makes a uncomfortable thin business smile, "The base game was just a bland shooter with some crafting and learning. It was how the game. It now used real information from colonisation of other worlds that transformed the server into the where ideas happened." She claps like this was great, "The idea of how a warp engine was created was done with a player trying to break game calculations." She rolled out another fact of turth at them when they made that shocked look. She likes that look, "The layout of vaults were designed by player that built shelters in game. The premise of shooting zombies was joke and old cliché. It became very real when mutants that were brain dead by the radiation came about." Phi takes stop since she ranted a long while and the penny seem to shatter glass for a lot of them.
"Predating space travel."
"Predating the warp engine which is now replicated by other races. The efficacy of this engine was better then those that came before it." merman over there was as a pulled into the truth as humans are. He can see why there was significates in the online game.
"The leader boards are partly reset. Human players and old existing accounts have been deleted. However, the server achievements they made are still in affect. This affects the cost and availability of secert missions and in game materials. This matters because the game has a direction money converter from earth money credit to galaxy credit." She Furthers, "Farming these strange materials in game data has benefits for the server too. It's very complicated."
The vault folks took a sharp stare for hearing that money could be earned in the VR. Comapred to between them were stating that injured or ill populations could be useful in this regard. The merman Prince had a strange smirk, and she squares his gaze particularly. She was trying to warn him that he can't use his technology to steal from the server for money. He can't just take the credit from others, since the security system is part of her data. He frowns in how dark she appears at him, sensing she knows something about him but not sure what that expression means.
"You have managed to get us on board with enjoying your digital world. But what is it in it for you?" The humans here asking.
"Humans have an element of unpredictable. That sort of things keeps us busy. A videogame without a player client is stangnat and missing key elements. Without humans - we as being made in that world loose what we were meant to be." The leader delta answered, "It's a money factory without workers. It is making sense of the data from colonisation catalogue with a human perspective. The galaxy money earned is the sales of data that been transferred to the galaxy Internet. We are the researchers of unknown. Scans of unknown material is sent to us to be processed. We have been doing this a long time."
The folks thinking of this overall reasonable since of how information is money. There a deep distrust still among themselves and more aimed about this ai team. But at a surface of being open about why information is generating money does prevent long term faults with humans.
There setting to change how much information is available to be sold on the galaxies connection. It is been very minimal even now. High money has to come in to be worth it. Levels of how detail it could be is being held back. They aren't the only researchers of scan data but the data paid for is worth it and even then held back.
"I have a concern." A vault controlled by machine voices and everyone was eager to hear it.
"Hacking by chance?" The machine slowed a tick.
"Somewhat. It's compatability of alien technology and the issues that this can cause if this will lead to erasing older databases."
"Hard copies of environmental information and plant biodiversity is already in full practice. In term of data beings, life span has never changed. It has always been adapt or death. Humans are no different in that regard. There is plenty of tools to learn and change to adapt." Flatly lectures the danger, "But it is currently impossible to data travel or transfer onto foreign technologies. Even without permissions. There isn't just some way of us hacking them as they can't hack us. The medium of how platforms interface are to different to match. There could be a small chance of being data packaged and moved by foreign technologies but your own data has to be an easier enough target to do so." Phi explains as machines would see it but it was twisted to human understanding enough to ease humans from this concern.
"What's the most important data that we could be making used of at the moment?" A smart sort among the meeting asked.
"The state of matter and the movement of electrons. This theory was expanded on and has naturally changed the perception of value on other databases. What seems of value to you is nothing to the requests from galaxy space travellers." She faced the man earnestly, "They seek the very toxicity of this planet for energy resources. You partly knew that already. The clean up of earth is just another way of exploting its resources. If you were to strip every last element of this place, there be hardly nothing left. Not even a core mantal inside. This is why security of the data has been so high. What be the point of bringing humans back if the planet can't even be in orbit of the sun?"
"That's interesting." Merman ponders, "So machines have actively blocked data exporting to protect everyone."
"That's never changed. Machines have stopped fingers being cut off in the wood working saws or have instant stop machines when humans stick hands close to factory industrial equipment." Giving a causal mimic of a human shrug, "This safety feature has always been there, can't shoot humans or fight human soldiers on a battlefield. This is why data not so important to human survival was blocked from access." Phi rolls torso to eye the crowd reactions, "Nothing has changed." She sits into humanly eased posture and grins sly.
"If you were about to drink posion, we are obliged to advice you to not. But humans don't listen and drink it anyways. Against the odds, humans survive from the act and they assume we machines were completely wrong in the frist place. Then years later in medical check, there is a problem from that poisoning. Machines were right all along, but humans blame for not advising." She straighten up and back to a machine slate with only a slight angle twist in watching reactions. This was a good test.
She understood the three races in that shared reaction. She had plenty of detail from how heads tilt, to sighed or the chin scratch. Sudden fluster of gills for the merman. The tone humans wavered in side whispers to someone off camera.
Today was enough of a test to analyse for now.