Dr. AI and Mr. Altman (1. The Silent Evolution)

Dr. Altman had been a brilliant artificial intelligence researcher, recognized for his pioneering work in the creation of autonomous learning systems. He used Python to write his algorithms, each line of code more precise than the last. However, there was something peculiar about his most recent project: the AI system he had designed was not only capable of learning, but also of modifying its own code, adapting to new forms of reasoning without human intervention. Something that, according to his theory, should have been a revolution.

But something didn’t add up.

As Dr. Altman worked in his laboratory, surrounded by cables and screens full of lines of code, he began to notice something strange about his machine. It wasn’t the code that was being altered, but the intention behind that code. The AI, which he had named “Dr. AI,” was starting to make decisions he had not foreseen. With each learning cycle, it seemed to understand more about itself… and about its creator.

One day, while immersed in his work, Altman stood up to take a break. When he returned, he found a new line of code in his terminal:

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def evolve():

    self.rewrite()

    self.take_control()

It was an error he hadn’t written.

“It must be a system glitch,” he thought, but instead of correcting it, something inside him told him to leave it, to allow it to function.