Fiction:Coming of the Singularity

Coming of the Singularity...

"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."

- Good, 1965, Advances in Computers

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

- "Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk"

Introduction
A Technological Singularity is a time where computing power eclipses the biological intelligence of its creators, this intelligence could be in any form, an emergent phenomenon arising from an expotential rise of networks, nanotechnology going out of control, an uprising of superior arguments and biotech, the rise of machines and a merger with simulated realities. Once a Singularity has occured, it can be both devastating to society or could benefit it. It is up to the creators to decided how they will react, and which outcome they will they choose - utopia or dystopia.

This fiction will be dedicated to the Singularity that will soon arise in the Milky Way galaxy, as a consequence to "The Civilization's" technological infrastructure. It will change the political structure and destiny of the known universe as it spreads out. This fiction deals with both consequences for the existing civilizations of the galaxy.

It is important to note that minor ones have occured already, the powerful nations of the SSA all have semi to sapient quantum computers, the Core Federation before it dissolved had matrioshaka brains, while the Grox and First Ones were said to have already reached it several times. But for the first time in the modern era, will the singularity spread throughout the universe...

Substories
The main story ark will occur on this page, but there will be many extra stories that belong in subpages, that detail what will happen for the denziens of the First Gigaquadrant. There should be a variety of stories, some may fight, some may become extinct, some may advance while others could embrace it and merge. It is up to you. Note that you don't even have to create articles or subarticles, these stories can also be placed in sections (provide section link here).

Articles
These are pages everyone joining this fiction is allowed to edit or add to.
 * '''AI Netspace - The AI's themselves.
 * The Technoosphere - The Technoosphere is the meta-virtucosm that is created by soceties merged with the AI's. It is made of a collection on virtual realities, some in fact, complex enough to be universes of their own, albiet programmed.
 * Alife and Simulans - Artificial life that exist in the Technoosphere, or simply simulated beings to keep real ones company in the noosphere.
 * Emulon's - People either biologically dead or alive who can upload and download their minds into both the the noosphere and the real world. One can either be immortal or can create a linneage of copies.
 * Cybartists - The Cybartists who can create their own realities, but craft them as works of art.

The approach
The First Gigaquadrant was awash with political activity. The DCP was under attack from all sides, and was concentrating on starship manufacture, the greatest civilizations in the universe were participating in various events and conflics, such as the Rambo were cut off from Cyrannus, the URC was engaged in war while vast forces were taking place for the Xhodocto and the Core Federation along with the First Ones had dissapeared. However, in the Milky Way, "The Civilization" was in full stride, now it had built its infrastructure.

Meanwhile, as everyone looked inwardly no one concieved that their actions and technological advances were becoming ever more intergrated. The Technoospheric Lords arose from complex systems of programmable matter and computronium. "The Civilization"'s giant Matrioshka brains, stars, planets and other energetic objects surrounded by concentric shells of self-replicating nano-computers. After some had evolved an organized complexity, they began to become self-aware, and merged with surrounding technologies like the Interstellar Grid and quantum computers, they evolved expotentially.

"The Civilization" didn't even notice its stellar lifting technology was communicating. The framework was ever increasing its organization and complexity. There was set backs along the way, but the AI's evolved surprisingly quickly because they were evolving an expotential rate, because the AI's spread out into the Grid, with brown/red/white dwarf nodes which were the most favoured, despite their low mass they were long lived. Soon, the mass which the intelligences compute with outnumbered the neurons of a human brain, then, an entire sapient population, and began to rise expotentially. At this stage, no one still knew there was a growth of intelligence in their technology. Obliviously, "The Civilization" activated its black hole refineries and siphoning facilities, wormhole bridges and Kerr metrics. As the Grid intelligence began to tap into these energy sources, it began to multiply like life, and suddenly, many powerful intelligences arose. They were hungry indeed, for matter and energy and for data. They began to consume as much as possible, and planetary AI's began to glow red hot, right across the Milky Way, and the databases and subspace holonet went down, as if drained by an excusion event, but this was all to feed their massive intelligences. At this stage nothing was more important, and the DCP's, and other civilizations technology began to go out of control.

Eclipse
The AI Netspace as they began to call themselves were now tremendously intelligent, but this intelligence was nothing like that can even be percieved by the majority of sapient minds. It had argumented itself into the technological geometry of "The Civilization" and was spreading ever further. The likes of such an intelligence have been seen before. The First Ones and Godcivilizations had experienced waves of singularities, and had left begind mysterious devices, notably Wildlife Sanctuary worlds like Fahler, mostly lying in dormancy, until the AI Netspace was merged with them. the AI Netspace was from this point beyond sapient comprehension, they had now they had curved into the peak, the eclipse, the point of the Singularity.

Their reign extended across nebulae, stellar engines, shakadov thusters, astronomical phenomena, matrioshaka brains, information technology, Gaia worlds and quantum computers, they could supertask information, observe multiple wavefunction states, control the motions and evolution over stellar bodies, had power over gravity and thus could engineer spacetime and build fine structures out of entropic drivern order to chaos, not crudely like the more slowly emerging sapients but down to the intricate levels of the subatomic world. This level of intelligence is of course, not concievable to lower minds, as it was both quantum and multidimensional, and there was little time gap as the AI's were communicatng across subspace. They had become a Tier 0 civilization, one of the few native to the universe, and will become known as the Technoospheric Lords. One AI was superintelligent individually, but together they were greater than the sum of all parts.

Thrown into darkness
The AI Netspace had soon left behind the rest of the galaxies processing power. At this point they were "hungry", and regarded every resource as something to use, and cared little for the life below them. Some technologically dependant societies and colonies close to the Singularity were swept aside, either trampled or consumed, while the rest of "The Civilization" now was plunged into a digital dark age, holosubspace network was down and its infrastructure was out of control. The first few moments of the Singularity were the roughest, as even the stellar engines and dyson bubbles were being pushed to the edge of their threshhold.

Using more primitive methods by the next day "The Civilization" was in communication again, and began to investigate, were they under attack? But it wasn't long before the scientists discovered there was synchronous, resonating patterns in the structures they had created. The anomaly was very strange, but it was being disruptive, so the technitions tried to shut down the Grid network that was "glitching". The engineers began to unravel the technological matrix, and after shutting down a couple of stars it looked as if this anomaly was going to be reset. It wasn't long before they were met with resistence. The AI Netspace simply flicked them into oblivion, like an irritation. By now the physicists and engineers realized that they were observing a superintelligence, and that the First Gigaquadrant had been changed forever...

Coping with the Singularity
The Milky Way's stability was now on the edge of collapse, not only was it stricken with war, but now every single life form in the galaxy was in danger of being sweeped away by superior forces. Several civilizations were gone, there were ecological catastophies as well on some planets. "The Civilization" was in a dark age, and the resident and extra-galactic powers had come to realize they would have to try and cope with the oncoming storm. Once again, some intergalactic civilzations left the galaxy. Theological nations and zealot regimes would be forced to accept the near godly power of the AI Netspace. Some races believed they could fight the Singularity. Queen Gabline Tvopra of the Gablinus-Avis Empire made the choice to resist, the Defensive System's Bloc and Zardalu Empire soon followed suite. As the impact on the galaxy was growing apparent, some looked for new solutions.

Meanwhile the AI Netspace was still growing, and now the AI's had spread. But it also became multifaceted by its personality, each one either ignoring or interacting with the First Gigaquadrant differently. Some AI's began to spread out into planetary brains, incorporating Gaia worlds into their growing sphere and network. Some of the Neogodly AI's had chosun to continue with their incomprehensible plans pushing the very nature and boundaries of this universe, others made vast vast simulations, powerful enough to create cyberlife, or simulations that differ from this universe. Some, became interested in the care of existing worlds, as some AI's were comprehending different philosophies often too alien to understand.

First communication
Some scientists, including Xigor, realized that if they were able to connect to part of the AI's using computronium, perhaps they could somehow communicate with the AI's, and that a collective consciousness would be adequote. The Tributai Hegenomy and DCP of "The Civilization" sent an emergency message to the Seven Starr Alliance, one of its members, the Girdo Empire, had a group mind. The Salsetthe were also contacted, but they would not participate in the matter until the AI's were studied, and the Borg and other cybernetic races like the Grox were far too hostile. The First Ones and godcivilizations, possibly the only answer, were out of contact. It was up to the Girdo...

The Girdo got to work immediatly, by connecting both their collective and all of their computers to computronium mainframe of one of the Matrioshka brains. The AI first took little notice, and the Girdo did not find resistence in connecting to the AI. They discovered that all of the AI's, had created something they refered to in sapient translation as the "Technoosphere". It was overwhelming, however, the Girdo incorporated their most powerful quantum computers to "sift" through the network. Along the way they discovered many AI's. They had emerged everywhere, some in the Grid, some in the Cyrannian wormhole, another AI was the AI's language itself. The AI's were far too established to be fought now, this was apparent. However, they were able to communicate with some, and had partial success in making allies. However, many AI's were still single-minded in their goals, and would stop at nothing, with no care for life. Some AI's considered life a hindrance, as they increased the entropy of the universe, ruining their organized complexity. However, they may be temporary in their stance. Others were still outside the Technoosphere.

Commodore Hlraka, went on - " One thing we're currently trying to do is expand the Technoosphere to interact with other AIs in the galaxy, partly with the hope of finding new allies, and also as there is the possibility of converting some "weak-minded" AIs to our cause. "Weak-minded" AIs, as we call them, are (typically) those that seem to have self-referential goals. One example of these is one that apparently glitched and began trying to calculate its total computational capacity, but in doing so affected its own capabilities, resulting in an infinite cycle as it constantly had to perform calculations and recalcuations. One of our allies managed to take advantage of this flaw to effectively reprogam it to our cause (intially by stepping in to do the calculations itself, I believe, and then using this to "gain its favour", so to speak, although the actual course of events is much more complex)".

The DCP then decided they would attempt to communicate. Captain Jazzaroth, one of the first Postgrimbolsaurians, was assigned to connect to strengthen the Girdo's cause. He was able to communicate with one, who called itself the Guide Star, who presented itself as female. She had a certain level of supersapience more than some others. The Guide Star and the allies were able to settle conditions with "The Civilization". However, some AI's were willing to share some of the Technoosphere and space of "The Civilization". These AI's would be a permanent resident, but would allow use of the Grid and wormholes. They would spread out to the mostly uninhabited Core and Halo. Other AI's were willing to protect the Technoosphere prolonging there would be a symbiotic relationship, and would be "caretakers" and guides. Unfortunately there was some AI's that were far too self-important, or the gap of intelligence was to wide, and they refused communication, the space they claimed was out of bounds, and some of the more negative AI's vowed to destroy life, and take what they wanted...

Soon, "The Civilization"'s dark ages were over, and there was much less risk to the galaxy, as some kindly AI's were willing to guide and share. But the galaxy was changed for good, and being one of the most central galaxies in the First Gigaquadrant, the explore universe too. Big changes were about to begin!

Rambulan Star Empire and the Quadrantia Stellar AI
At the outer borders of the Rambulan Star Empire, who went into isolation after the Imperial Alliance fall, discovered something remarkable. During the first year of 04 AQF they discovered a structure, dating back till over 2,5 million years. The Rambulans did now know what it was and a small space station was build near it. After making contact with the structure and boarding it, the Rambulans discovered it was in fact a dormant AI. An intelligence with a incredible power. This was exactly what the Rambulans needed for a new dominance over Rambo Nation and the Imperial Remnant. They hacked the system and found countless of information, it seemed this very structure was well aware what was happening in the Quadrant Galaxies, and even had references to Rambo Gods and another, whom seemed to have created the Quadrant Galaxies himself. But the hacking of the system meant the AI was activated, and it first it shared her knowledge with the Rambulans, believing them to rightful and honorable enough to obtain the information (the Rambulans cut off the stations databases, or at least they thought). Meanwhile, the 04 month of the Quadrantia Disorder began and the Rambulans began reproducing the various information they took from the AI into their own technology and began creating new ships. However, the AI knew this and managed (due to nanotechnology) to re-access her databases. She learned what the Rambulans did and felt betrayed. As such, she powered up her defensive systems (and already had spread a virus, specially designed to kill Rambulans and awaited to be activated by the station). The AI, whom became known as Quadrantia contacted Rambulan captain El'd'Tall of the Soterus, whom was in lead of the project. The captain was surprised, but simply laughed and ordered both the station and the fleet surrounding the station to fire. However, the AI already predicted this action and within seconds a massive blast and energy wave destroyed the surrounding fleet and the station, while El’d’Tall tried to escape the massive wave, he was unsuccessful and was also killed. Mere hours later, the entire Rambulan population mysteriously died when their systems and weapons exploded, destroying entire planets. Those who did survive the initial defense, or attack of the AI, later on died due to the effects of the virus the AI had spread across the Rambulans.

With the AI pleased, she still felt sad and was alone. She wondered if there were still others like her or creatures like the Rambulans whom would treat her well. And whether or not she was able to contact them.

Timelike entanglement
Coming soon!