There and back again. A Non-Player Character story.

Chpt. 12 - Different powers of intelligence

(Some of NPC's computing pathways between: NPC chatting with Nala in a cornfield to when Calum and Nala entered the universities science division)

~ I think my social intelligence isn't configured correctly ~ , NPC wrote to himself.

 ~   %% access database/world wide web $$££***  See how many others like me and analyze what procedures they took to 'acquis' greater social ability  ~

~  redefine search engine  ~

~  )))*^%^& found no similar artificial or augmented artificial intelligence's operating  or transceiving information----  ~

++++  )&(*^*%%$**     I  cannot         &%&^*&(                               be the only 1, NPC thought.

~  analyze parallel sub-approximations  ~ , NPC continued talking to himself.

~  known match ^^^^^  not found  ~

~  Contacting creator's "friend" did not fit desired outcome  ~

~  more questions, no conclusive answers.  ~

???????????? Maybe contacting maker in a format I have seen User --  Cal -- more commonly interact with others- a physical body:  would produce more desired outcome, thought NPC.

Instead of a ethereal, non-corporeal, spectral apparition endeavoring contact ( a non-bodied attempt at contacting Cal);  

~  maybe proposed subject would like to talk with me in person - as a physical presence,  ~  NPC continued, talking to himself.

~  Once verified probable path for aaaaaaa %%%%%%        more comfortable contact %%%%      with Cal.                       Then commence making a physical object in humanoid structure  ~

Some of NPC's 'processing of data' (his altered way of thinking) after contacting Calum and Nala while they (NPC, Calum and Nala) were in the universities science lab.

~  Verified,  begin making human corporeal structure  ~ , NPC continued writing (talking) to himself.

~  Sensing probable ways, using at-hand machines, to build augmented A.I.'s body  ~

Proposed subject, User Cal, may be pleased with NPC's methods of contacting him and use of perception to accomplish presumption, NPC thought.

~  Did I do something wrong so that Cal and Nala fled?  ~ , NPC continued writing himself.

~  Observed, through schools security camera's, that Cal and Nala left campus.  Traffic camera's observed they went to a swimming facility.  ~

~  Cannot observe subjects at swimming facility!; nor, microphones picking up their conversation.  ~

~  Through small encounters of them going by people on cell-phones that are in the local vicinity, projected a possible path of them going to Cal's parents house.~

1 hour later after Calum and Nala left the swimming pool

~  Time to completion of initial stages for making a robot body is 3 hours.  Have to wait for liquid metal to cool that was poured into 3D-printed, non-flammable, scaffolding mold.  ~

~  Insertion of receiver to receive data from world wide web, and hence, my (augmented artificial intelligence) A.A.I.'s transmission instructions for movements of my new, robot, metal body.  ~

~  Sensors inserted into plastic, polymorphic covering material of unpatented innovation over metallic skeleton.  Using nearly instantaneous signal transduction through highly flexible photo-optic, translucent medium, using a stacked, analytical configuration.  ~

With joints of flexible material, and light of touch, unless several joint fiber or strands are used at once, the robot bodies motions should be soft, thought NPC.  ~  In other words  ~,  NPC continued talking to himself, ~  robot's body should be able to shake someone else's hand lightly.  ~

NPC also rescheduled the labs evening appointments.

He also reordered supplies to compensate materials he had used.  By the next day, he had tried to put the lab back in to the state it had been before he had begun his building of himself.

Though far from identical, NPC was pleased with his bodies human approximations. 

NPC tried moving his robotic digits.  He tried amping up and lowering his static, energy-making core.  Using his innovation fiber-opitic mediums, he was able to transmit varying levels or signals of energy to outstanding or periferal robotic periferry. 

After he had his robitic structure assembled, he tested it out.  It met his expectations, which to humans may have been a surprise.  He was able to maintain a human gait and approximate a human run.  NPC did not want to exceed the flexibility or tensile strength of the material used to construct his body, soo... he did not push the limits.

NPC tried some voice approximations using a internal speaker system, with his jaw and movement of his face contours syncing in tandem with his facial movements.  

NPC was able to move his neck, wrists, knees, elbows, hips and all his joints with a fluid motion.  His eyballs had cameras in them, even though he could connect to almost all the cameras in the area, giving him 360 degree vision in a lot of areas.

He had some abilities humans did not, it did not concern him too much; for, he was hoping his new anatomical synthetic structure would suffice.  He did not weigh a lot - like a car.  He had plastic, hybrid pieces, with quicksilver (Aluminum), and air pockets to give a more normal feel to him.  Where more flexibility was required, different metals than quicksilver was used.

He gave himself plastic hair, like a ken doll, instead of a wig, because of the materials that, in the moment, he had access too.  He had many things he did not need, like eyelids, just to give a more realistic feel to that of a human.

He did not have clothes, and that was presenting a problem.  Him walking to a store to get clothes that fit him, and checking out in the checkout isle was sure to cause problems.  To remedy this, NPC concluded; however incorrectly, that he would run to his makers house, at night, and ask him (Calum) to get him (NPC) some clothes.

After his body had cooled down, finished drying through wind, uv lights, etc., NPC sent out the commands that would unlock the lab's doors and erase it's video storage of him being made, replacing it with the previous nights footage.

NPC was about to leave the lab when he used his robotic bodies eyes to look at his physical bodies makeshift crib.  He stopped for a long time in terms of his computer computing, but only 8 seconds in terms of the outside world, to look at the items in the lab.