Snippet #1015969

Ileana barely resisted the urge to stick her tongue out at her brother. "I happen to like it cold because I am a human and as a human, I enjoy claiming my evolutionary right to such advancements as air conditioning," she told him loftily. "So shove it, swiss cheese."

Ileana considered Alex's question carefully, taking a sip of her water while she thought. "SI..." she murmured, "There's some tricky shit. I have a good few AI programs myself running on my network that monitor the firewalls, organize searches, you know, stuff like that. I've made my own attempts at it, the closest I got was this mutating program, it mimicked evolution well, but in the end, I wasn't able to coax it into self-awareness. I've been playing around with the idea of a series of these AIs and having each transfer the information to the other, you know, to mimic teaching. It's all theoretical though..."

She took a moment to consider his offer. If his blueprints took him any closer than hers did, the oppurtunity was almost painful to pass up. Plus, she had a feeling that Dr. Damnation had any number of fascinating blueprints in his lab. Ileana had always had to be careful around other scientists in order to protect her identity. The chance to allow her mind free reign, and possibly to be matched was enticing. And if he tried anything funny, he still have no clue how fast she could be. She could probably punch him in the nose before he could say "Science made me do it".

"I'm sure we can work something out," she said aloud, grinning.