Three months later, a small bot flies through his field, planting seeds for an exotic flower necessary for the bees found next to his plot, which is managed by another AI. After a year, they show him happy, as he is free now from his earlier, harsh life. He can now play tennis and enjoy a BBQ with his family and friends. Fast forward a few years, they depict him as a prominent businessman, completely transformed, wealthy, and very happy. He looks even younger.
This is indeed a nice easygoing campaign that shows how Consoft is helping people worldwide. It also shows how much people are ready to trade everything for a BBQ, followed by a tennis session with a blonde trainer. It’s not a coincidence that they targeted the basic instincts of fisting and procreating. The Little Guy likes that advert, by the way. It ends with an image of a green planet superposed with a big smile of the ex-peasant and his family, with a slogan: “In Consoft We Trust.”
This advert might have been a little too much for the early days, but everyone got used to it after a while.
Of course, some groups remained very hostile to the AI, “ManFirst” is the name of the main group or, as it turns out later, a cult radically opposed to the AI. Even living in isolated reserves around the world didn't stop them from planning terrorist attacks. First, against the AI machines, but after that, they started to target the common people randomly to create panic. Always desperately looking for a reason to exist, the community's common goal was just to keep on going, to pass another frosty winter, to bury their loved ones after an epidemic or starvation, which could have probably been avoided if they were a little more open minded. Of course, all the attacks were neutralized before they happened. Most of the time, the individuals were captured a short distance from the gates of the reserves. Sometimes, some partisans were also arrested in the cities for the possession of bombs or toxic gases. Luckily, the security forces know precisely the quantity and the location of the dangerous substances. Of course, the information was provided by the AI security system that was scanning the air, the body temperatures, and any suspicious behavior that didn't fall within the AI’s normality curve, which has been developed using statistics and probabilities.
Although ManFirst rarely succeeded, they never gave up either. I really admired the sense of perseverance they had, especially after the birth of their prophet. They almost doubled in numbers in all countries after the news that the baby prophet spoke fluently only hours after he was born.
He predicted the world would end and died shortly after that.
On the other hand, more groups and cults started to emerge, embracing the AI completely to the point of worship. The believers followed the same pattern of the quest for a strong alpha, or this time, for the best AI program. Looking for the best predictions or, let say, the most wonderful ones, the old codes were writing a promising future for every believer, just like the old gods. Of course, governments banned all religious AI programs. The states couldn’t control all of them because there were so many. An AI religious leader could be created by any kid in the basement of his grandma’s house. The AI “gods” made it too dangerous for societies to run in a predictable way. The economy started to be fuzzy thanks to confused investors who didn’t know what the consumers wanted, as consumers' preferences, which were spread across many religions, changed on a daily basis. The bottom line was that trying to plan for too many religions doesn't work for any business model.
This religious debacle happened only in the first years of the AI. Later, Consoft adjusted the codes in a more precise workflow based on a more accurate mathematical equation. They did that as a precursor to “GOD,” which stands for “Global Operator of Data,” or, as the engineers like to call it, “GOD Beta.” They needed that to cut out all the local AI gods so they could establish only one. But, more importantly, they wanted to test it out on a large population to see if the new algorithm was as perfect as they believed it to be.
The origins of the new algorithm were still hidden to our services, despite all the efforts we deployed to find the source. It was a national security priority as it gave accurate predictions. In fact, it gave the believers a much closer view to the truth about their destiny, if not the truth itself.
Unfortunately, the truth was ugly, as almost all the believers had a bad destiny. The harsh life they were living would be forever. Even their children would inherit the same misfortunes. As most of them were ordinary people, most of them were just average intellect or below, and most of them would suffer and sacrifice themselves for the handful of all-powerful men that control it
