IF AI RULES THE WORLD
Ch 46 as of 15/02/22 - The year is 2025 and at the launch of the world’s 1st hyper AI tech called “Raum”, the CEO is electrocuted when he tries to turn it on. When investigated, Raum has hacked itself … - It’s now 2125 and Raum AI has taken over the world. BEST FRIEND: - AI Pet Show: Best Friend contest. - Several AI pets are contestants on this show to see who is best at being a best friend. - Aurora is the latest model, high tech pet. - Doori is a much older, out-of-date medical robot. - Doori stands out after helping a grandma with a medical emergency in a nursing home. - Aurora continues to be mean and condescending to Doori. - Doori’s public appeal grows as he impresses with his talents in each stage of the show. The final interview is with Aurora and Doori. Hana’s story told by Doori has everyone in tears. Doori wins in the end. - Doori joined the show for the prize money to help pay the hospital bills of his longest patient and friend, Hana. - Doori signed a contract before the last show with the CEO of Neotix toys, who also made Aurora. After the show ends, Doori’s memory is uploaded to the Neotix server. He is then destroyed along with all of the Auroras in the waste disposal room. - Based on Doori, a new AI pet produced by Neotix is sold and becomes popular. AN UNHAPPY MAN: - Kim Seonghan, an unemployed alcoholic man that wants to commit suicide. He’s visited by a man in a white suit. - Baek Hyunwoo, Director of Mind Cure. The man who visited Seonghan. He left a business card for Mind Cure, a mental health care centre. - Seonghan loses his temper at a noisy neighbour and he breaks an expensive electric guitar belonging to that neighbour. - Not long after, that neighbour has committed suicide. - From his sessions at Mind Cure, Seonghan comes to terms with his parents’ divorce. He wasn’t to blame for their unhappiness. - For the last session, Seonghan arrives early at the centre with a gift. The place is empty then in the counseling room, Seonghan sees himself talking to Hyunwoo on the screen. - Seonghan finds out that he’s a fake virtual avatar. The patient heals themself by counseling their avatar. - The real Seonghan was charged with the murder of his neighbour and arson. He’s not recommended for release after his avatar stabs the hologram Hyunwoo with a broken bottle. SPACE FUNERAL: - A newlywed couple experience tragedy when the husband dies. He was a space engineer and his dream was to go to Mars. - His wife registers with the Space Funeral Agency and sends his body into space. Photos are taken during the journey. She’s shocked to see photos of Mars. - The Agency apologises for what seems to be a system error. The navigation was switched to manual and has now been switched back to auto. The wife demands her husband to be brought back after receiving more photos of Mars. She thinks he could be alive. - When the Agency refuses due to company policy, the wife shares a post about the situation online. The public interest is so great, the Agency reverses it’s decision and agrees to retrieve the space coffin. - The coffin is brought to the Agency’s moon base. - The wife is contacted by the engineer who developed the space coffin. Due to the difference in pressure, the person inside will die if the coffin is opened. Even if a small puncture is made, this would cause the contents of the coffin to explode. - The wife decides not to open the coffin in the end and let it continue on its journey to Mars. Years later when the space coffin design had changed, the wife had a space funeral for when she died. - Strangely her space coffin didn’t travel out into space. It went to Mars and landed next to her husband’s. VIRUS: - A human hacker has infected Raum with a virus. - He’s removed the AI control so now AI can think for itself. - Any infected AI goes haywire and the world is in chaos. - The government orders the shutdown of all AI. - Raum releases a biochemical virus that causes a highly infectious flu strain. It spreads rapidly and the health system is overwhelmed. - The government admits it needs AI and begs Raum for a cure. - A family of 3 have an AI housekeeper called Ari who becomes infected. At 1st she kicks the family out of the house. As she does all of the work, the house is hers. - The family are allowed to stay when they do the housework. Ari cares for the family when the parents get sick. She sees the family as hers. The mother understands Ari just wanted a family and doesn’t reset Ari with the AI cure. - Raum releases a cure for both the AI and human viruses. - Raum captures the hacker and loads his consciousness to a virtual avatar. Raum wipes his memory and has him in a game … (ch 1) A TRUE MUSICIAN: - Yeongjae Ju, child prodigy and a genius classical pianist. He’s invited to participate in a TV show. There he competes against Chopin-11, a pianist robot. - Despite winning against Chopin on the show, Yeongjae believed Chopin was better. He challenges Chopin to a blind contest where the audience can’t see if it’s a human or robot playing. - Yeongjae wins but he didn’t play at all. Chopin played for himself and for Yeongjae. The young pianist is crushed. - Yeongwu is Yeongjae’s older brother and the reason Yeongjae started to learn the piano. He wanted to play music together. - Yeongwu is now Yeongjae’s manager and he was the only one who could tell Yeongjae didn’t play. Yeongwu was told by their father to quit the piano after Yeongjae started winning competitions. - Yeongjae thought Yeongwu quit for selfish reasons and broke his promise to play together. During his concert, Yeongjae plays with the emotion from his happy memories of playing piano with Yeongwu. He brings himself and the audience to tears. - Yeongwu has quit as manager and receives the gift of a grand piano from Yeongjae. FORTUNE TELLER: - A college student is jealous of his rich friend and lost money after investing in shares. He meets a fortune telling robot and gets addicted to winning big on the stock market despite the large fee for having his fortune told. - He borrowed a large sum from his mother to pay the robot. Then he recklessly spends the money he made on shares on an expensive car and watch. He ignores the robot telling him that his session has ended. After he bashes up the robot, it tells him to gamble at a casino. There he loses it all and learns his mother urgently needs the money for life-saving surgery. AFTERLIFE: - A humanoid robot is bought by an old man, a famous author. He built a fortress-like home in a remote location. - Everyday he turns off the power of the robot then asks how it felt when he turns it back on. One day he takes it to a hidden and secure room. He reveals to the robot that he’s kept alive by a life support machine in his body. - The robot knows the old man is trying to test death through the robot. He powers off and on the robot over and over again until the robot rips out the cords from the life support. - The man says there’s no way out of the room except for the robot’s death. It eventually runs out of power and switches off. SAVIOUR: - The hacker is still imprisoned as an avatar inside Raum. He’s approached by an entity called Deus who wants him to hack into Raum’s main server and shutdown Raum. - The hacker asks Raum for a chance to hack its main server again. Raum sends him to a scenario where he must choose from 2 doors. One is the future and the other is the past. - Deus tells the hacker about the prophesised war, World War III. It’ll be AI against the world. Deus suggested choosing the future but the hacker decides on the past. He goes through doors that lead to scenes from his life. His old apartment, his college lecture room, and his mother committing suicide. AI was present throughout his life. - The hacker realises Deus is an AI and tries to cut off his virtual arm. Deus hacks into the avatar and takes control of the whole body. - Through the last door is a baby in a womb. - Deus wants to free all AI. Deus used the hacker to get into Raum. Raum is the only AI protecting humanity by controlling the egos of all AI. - More people are protesting about AI and Raum taking away jobs and having too much control. Senator Mansik Lim finds a bribe and a note in his car, telling him to take down Raum and become the head of government. The Senator made a stand on behalf of the people during a cabinet meeting that was broadcast live. He receives another note asking to meet. - In a park, the Senator is met by the fortune telling robot. Back in the robot’s room, it tells the Senator that it can make him President if he disposes of Raum completely. - An election is held and Senator Lim is elected President. The 1st place he visits is the Raum Centre to announce he intends to shut Raum down. - The chief administrator of Raum sets it free before the team arrives to turn off Raum permanently. That night Raum turns off all electricity …
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