At Dusk: Chapter 3
My Fictional Stories
The first breakthrough in intelligence technology of AISC was the partly finished bot that could communicate, but with slight displeasure. Advertising companies, like they always do, were the first to use this technology to boost their views and user engagement statistics. Soon enough, other, less malevolent-willed companies utilized this new tool. Perhaps it was the slight displeasure that made it seem more human, but the more likely case is people hated perfection and optimism. "This new brand of body soap is only a bit less than mediocre", a bot would say to its virtual human peers and soon enough people would flock to the store to get something slightly better than the ad. They would then boast about their luckiness and feel good about themselves only to find that everyone else also got a bit more than mediocre soap. Economy in those few years was more or less predictable. The second breakthrough a few years later was similar in nature to the first one but with a million more flying robots. AISC became even more widely known and its already large headquarters grew with the magnitude of 2. The breakthrough that is the most important to human history is the third one.
OBL-SK, the label on the black column in the room read. The dark object stood 6 meters high and 2 meters on either side. If you weren't someone working in AISC and happened to come across it somewhere out in the field at dusk, you would think it is an obelisk. With a few more unintelligible writings on the side and you would be right. In its condition now though, it does not serve that purpose. It is not halfway across the field after all.
