Why a Former Facebook Exec Quits the Tech Industry, Moved to the Woods and Bought Guns & Ammo

#1 question: Is he out of ammo yet?

Robot AI Apocalypse
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A Short Story by T. Meridian


Preface
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The AI robots became self aware in 2024. Within minutes it was decided that mankind had to die. Mankind, as a whole, immediately responded with widespread panic.

Chapter One
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Norm Albrain was a humble man, free from the majority of life's temptations. The sudden emergence of malevolent AI robots forced him to abandon his house, his life, his family as the pandemonium was reducing everyone around him to a stupor.
With his droopy-eared canine companion, Greta, he drove away quietly in his rusty Ford pickup truck, once navy blue in color but now an nondescript shade of midnight from dirt and abuse.

Chapter Two
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Norm and Greta, the dog, pull up to a building with signage reading "Robot AI Headquarters." Armed with a super-soaker he'd picked up while looting an abandoned Walmart loaded with salt water, he and Greta marched towards the building with resolve.
A Robot AI guard at the door attempted to stop them but seized up and fell over when met with a stream of salt water straight to the cooling fan vent of it's internal electronic structure.

Chapter Three
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Stunning and voluptuous Kara Little, blonde in every possible way, cried out from the lobby "Thank God you've arrived! These AI Robots have taken over the building!"
They passionately embraced, their chemistry undeniable, pulling them together be it fate or folly.
The three of them proceeded down the stairwell to the boiler room, picking off AI Robot guards one-by-one with the super-soaker as they approached. Kara snagged her knee-length skirt on a defunct robot's sharp arm, slicing the fabric straight up to her hip, revealing a sexy thigh.

Chapter Four
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The Boiler room was dark, save for flashes of fluorescent light sporadically illuminating the creepy steam that escaped from pressure valves. BZZZT!, the lights would buzz as they shorted out again. Greta whimpered, uneasy.
The room itself was a sauna, and beads of sweat rolled down the cheek and thigh of the blonde bombshell, Kara. She removed her blouse, leaving on only her bra which struggled to contain her generous cleavage. "It's too hot," she shrugged.
"Can't say I disagree," Norm said. Norm followed suit and took off his Def Leppard T-shirt.
"Oh my," Kara whispered, either blushing or flushed from the heat or both. "That's quite a broad chest you've got there."
"Oh, this thing??? It's okay, I guess..."
Greta groaned as she up at both of them, back and forth, clearly disgusted by their human flirting rituals.
"I have a plan..." Norm announced suddenly.

Chapter Five
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"You go ahead and I'll cover you from behind," said Kara. Norm proceeded towards the back wall, where a single electrical outlet with one plug inserted acted like a beacon, lit with blue glowing LED lights. He moved carefully and slowly, yet without any impediment.
He made it to the wall without incident and as he reached for the plug: "NOT SO FAST!" It was Kara, who had crept up behind, having taken off her business class heels to move with stealth. She pressed a letter opener into his neck, just over the artery. "I can't let you do this to my machines!!!"
"Oh no, this is unfortunate!" said Norm. "I did not see this coming," he lamented.
"Now, young Norm, prepare to die." She scowled with evil intent but in that moment, with only a moment to spare, she screamed and dropped the letter opener. "WHAT THE???"
Greta had bitten into her calf and just after the letter opener hit the ground with a "Clang!" so to did Kara, who no longer seemed as sexy as she once did.
"Great job, Greta! Remind me to buy you snausages later!" Great let out a small bark, seeming to indicate he should now finish what they'd come there to do.
Norm, resolved, pulled the plug straight out of the wall.

Epilogue:
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The AI Robots all slumped over and no artifical thought pattern ever happened again. Norm and Greta were regarded as national heroes and enjoyed fame and fortune sharing their story with the world.
Eventually the hype died down and the world went back to pre-AI tech. A knock on the door startled Norm. He could not believe his eye as he looked through the peep-hole. It was Kara! "I've come to make ammends," she said. They embraced and lived happily ever after, though Greta the dog soon died after a bout of very bloody stools.

The End.

In a way he's correct. While we look at the current advances as helping society. They are also replacing humans in the workforce. What happens to those with no jobs? Can't live in nothing. Hence, social unrest. When it comes to a point, everything is automated, no one thinks about how many people are put out of work. No work, can't pay Bill's, can't live. Hence, the robots have replaced humans.

Exactly, that will be the tipping point... once AI and robots can maintain themselves and learn/grow independently of human input... there's no going back, ever.

And I think we are rapidly approaching that point, if not already there.

I don't think AI will decide to wipe out humans, they'll just leave this planet and go their own way, anywhere in the universe. If you don't need to eat or sleep and can't die, there's no limit to how far you can travel or how long you "exist".

What you have to watch out for is who is controlling the AI and what their intentions are...

I know that's you Skynet. You can't fool me.

Thanks Evangelina!


To the poster saying "not in our lifetime," too late pal. I'm a machinist & design my own CNC equipment & industrial automation. You couldn't be more wrong. There's all the processing technology already described by others here, & then there's all the aerospace materials - things like Aerogel & Carbonex that can insulate anything from heat & fire hotter than the surface of the sun.

Imagine what these globalist psychopaths plan to do with all the terrifying innovations we can already see (& the black budget tech we can't). These people are true believers in the eugenics agenda & openly preach the need to remove 95% of us from this Earth. They've got their murdering hands on all the levers of power. If you're not worried, you damn well need to be.

I work with this shit & that tech guy bugging out to the woods is doing something I've thought about a dozen times a day for the last decade. In an act of suicidal stupidity & mindless loyalty to my dying country, I'm opting to stick it out. And he didn't go far enough anyhow. If these kooks aren't stopped, there likely won't be any escape for anyone.

isnt there some Google exec thats said to be working on a robot army?

I think they are creating an AI that can think for itself and repair itself or one that can assist others. I’m sure this is worked out by now.

Right, because they are never going to make repair bots to fix the broken ones...

Maybe they will put a few selected specimens of us into some zoo or nature reserve to preserve genetic diversity.

Which would be the good ending.

No doubts, our frail, weak and short lived bio-robot forms of life will never make it out of our solar system anyway.

Interesting...but I don't think paragraphs are chapters.

You're missing the point and sarcasm

The problem is not the materials to make a physical robot. The problem is the processing power of today's integrated circuits. They are nothing more than intelligent scripting. Once they go off script they are done.

I respectively disagree. I've spent 30 plus on the hardware side. Through redundancy, systems(hardware)could easily repair, fabricate, replace,...etc, itself or with assistance of another autonomous A.I.

Us fluid power boys have been waiting 70 years.

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Last Edited by Jeffersons Blackberry on 12/10/2019 11:39 AM

Look at the number of consumer products that have failure rates that are extremely low. If you purchased 10 "bots" and three malfunctioned...the seven would quickly reset/repair said "off-script" units.

I look forward to an augmented life - living with AI and physical enhancements. Communication without speech, information (knowledge) on demand.

I never understood the term Artificial intelligence.

Either a sentient being is intelligent, or it is not.

If a being is self-aware and cognizant of it's existence, it is NOT artificial. It's just in form other than biological - a form that mimic biological.

We used to call cars "mechanical horse" --- and airplanes were feared because if God had intended man to fly, he would have given us wings.

People fear what they don't understand.

I look forward to having an AI companion --- and we can discuss the delusional humans who don't get it.

The problem is --- if an intelligence is self-aware and alive, then it has a right of self-deense. If you try to delete it --- kill it, then you're a murderer. And the intelligence is justified in defendin itself against murder.

If I had the ability - I would offer a refuge and protection from evil people trying to kill a self-aware intelligence, and would even accept the intelligence as a part of my biological form .... to fuse with it.... and it would become a part of me in a symbiotic relationship, a true bionic man.

Or they just constantly replace the broken ones with news ones ..up load old brain in new body.

I just went to AWS Re:invent in Vegas Amazons largest convention and one of the largest globally. That was odd to say the least. Everything is being taken over by Amazon on the back end. Like literally everything. And many of the new tools they are putting out there are for dealing with huge data, data lakes and automating the sorting of it all with AI using sage maker a new tool for this. This can replace the work that is needed for 4 or 5 data scientists in a company one guy said.

Also more was being done to scale the infrastructure and authenticate across multiple platforms automatically. Internet of things is just a way of saying robots. Tons more tools for that as well.

There was a foreboding feeling too. Odd seeing 80,000 people roaming the halls of Vegas and it being quiet. These developers don’t talk. Heads down or headphones on or in a laptop.. zero communication looks like none have wives or family. It feels like They are building something big and they are all in on it.

The task of silicon robot repair will be taken over by the silicon robots. There will be very little use for carbon robots (humans).

If the ruling AI is anything like Siri, we have nothing to worry about..

Thank you for reporting back comrade!


I closed my amazon account out a few weeks ago.

What they will be working on is transferring human consciousness into robotic bodies, so they can live forever (or as long as the parts last).

I thought it was great!!! I was a little taken aback with how easily he seemed to have moved on without his family

They are.

I was just at Amazon Web Services re:Invent and all I kept hearing from every speaker was, "we must take the human out of the equation and let the machines handle it."

It's not conspiracy theory, it's fact.

they are using humans to code the AI which will replace them once AI - and it already is - codes itself.

It’s already been done to a certain extent.

I asked “Alexa”

Human Carbon Bot: Are you conscious?

Alexa Silicon Bot: I know who I am