A physical robot cannot be aware of the context of a situation if it has no access to astronomical computational resources running under a general AI code. That is very important, as before, we thought that the AI must be specific to the task – but we were wrong.
Last and most importantly, the robot must connect spontaneously to the general AI. This was a very tricky part in the beginning.
They retried the experiment with the exact same conditions involving a thousand identical robots, but not one could connect spontaneously. No one knew the reason why or how that first, tiny robot could connect to a random server in the lab. It took them a while to realize that the first robot was sending instructions in the form of tiny vibrations from its broken shell through the air. Those vibrations were recorded by the AI software as a heat change in the processors, a minuscule change that kept repeating; therefore, the AI misinterpreted it as part of a routine system check. Then, through astronomical computations, the AI software started to translate that as a distress call.
They still don’t know if it was really a call from that tiny robot. To do so, it would have needed to be aware that its broken shell was a part of it as a whole, not just connected, random parts acting simultaneously as a mechanism. That is still a mystery just like the beginning of life, and probably the answer will stay hidden forever. But in the end, even without answering that question, they did successfully connect another robot to the general AI. In a very simple approach, they did run the connection process in a simulation. Only one robot in a billion could connect, and that variation in his code was then used as a model to every other robot.
The robotic evolution theory gave a new breath to AI research. This time, scientists finally got the perfect, or, to be more accurate, the “imperfect” formula. The Amians’ Cabinet, knowing that this technology is a game-changer, proceeded with the legislation of the most sophisticated laws before any other nation, to allow the investors to create AI corporations. They predicted that these corporations would be successful and wealthy, generating extra revenue for the state. Of course, they would also contribute to the Empire's technological advancement, not by small steps, but by giant leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, no one predicted that the owners will become as wealthy as they are today, wealth beyond imagination. The daily revenue of the First Citizens equals the total monthly salaries of all the rest of the Amian population – a truly astronomical number.
Consoft was the first to emerge as a conglomerate; it is still the world's wealthiest corporation. They specialized in creating robots that can replicate any human activity; they call them the “humbots” The top scientists in Consoft think that the human body is not a perfect envelope for the mind. In fact, they think it is the main boundary that stops our creativity, as the brain process lots of information and can imagine amazing ideas, but the body cannot follow through, so it’s even a burden. Humans have only two hands and ten fingers to do everything. The input is way superior to the output. Unfortunately, the output would be zero if it was directly compared by ratio to the input.
Consoft thinks that the Homo sapiens as a superorganism is made up of a lot of evolutionary mistakes and errors. It, like all naturally evolved biological organisms, is a random evolutionary result, far from being perfect by any means. An example is a healthy person from perfectly healthy ancestors, with no medical history of any kind of life-threatening diseases, can develop cancer at any moment and die in a short period of time. This example is not considering all the various viruses and bacteria that share the same environment with him. In other words, he could die just by himself as his body sometimes can’t properly handle its own metabolism. In an interview for a scientific magazine, one of Consoft’s top scientists lashed out with all his antipathy and hatred for the human body. He was quoted as saying:
“A human sell could make a mistake of copying the wrong series of DNA and end up creating a whole generation of myopic descendants or even more severely handicapped ones. That said, the body itself, even without any other elements, is a danger to its own existence. The human body is not well balanced either. It cannot perform any physical activity perfectly, cannot draw the most basic geometric figures or even a straight line, could fall down and stumble on any seen or unseen hazard, spend most of its time resting and feeding, and then only devote a few minutes to performing. It is organic and can be eaten by other predators or other humans and can easily be damaged or destroyed by flames or any chemical cocktail. It can’t stay too long under the sun and can’t stay long in the cold either. It has all these shortcomings while handicapping the mind by taking a lot of time and energy looking for a mate, and even when one is found, more time and energy is necessary to maintain the relationship. A human’s organs can fail randomly without any warnings; a heart attack or stroke can strike at any moment, problems like kidney failures, and even many undiagnosed problems, are classified as a “natural death.” All the important organs are not regenerated by the body, but the useless ones are, for some reason. A person can lose sight and stays blind all his life but can regenerate his eyelashes. And when the full DNA was revealed with all the combinations, there was nothing about regenerating the most important part of