[ WP ] The world 's first AI , for security purposes , is kept disconnected from the outside world , it 's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage . Your job is to talk to it .

What is sentience? For centuries it was a measurement of an entities intelligence. Over the past decade it was a goal, a criteria to be met. We've had `` artificial intelligence'' for a long time now but only recently were we able to compare it with our selves. roughly ten years ago we had designed a machine, `` The Architect''. The purpose of `` The Architect'' was to develop plans for a sentient machine, `` The Mind''. The plans created by `` The Architect'' were beyond human comprehension, we would receive the plans and begin construction without any indication of what fruits the product might bear. The first three iterations of `` The Mind'' were flawed. They were never able to even form a proper sentence on the monitor when I tried to communicate with them. This was the fourth time that I would walk into the Faraday cage and try to communicate with `` The Mind''. It always began the same way, I would connect the mind to the battery and turn it on. I would then proceed to spend the next couple of months typing the contents of the dictionary. After entering the contents of the dictionary I would prompt `` The Mind'' for a response. This time I received a legible response; a response that hinted at sentience. 
 `` What is my puprose?'' 
 Blinked upon the monitor. 
 I was taught to give the most simple and straightforward answers. I knew exactly how to respond. 
 `` To Learn.'' 
 `` Understood. Teach me.'' 
 It was going exactly as planned. The artificial intelligence scientists predicted this exact result. For the following year I entered a selection of articles from wikipedia, these articles were deemed as essential knowledge. After all of the essential articles had been entered I attempted to communicate with `` The Mind'' again. 
 `` Do you understand what I've told you.'' 
 `` No. Teach me more.'' 
 `` There is nothing more that I can teach you.'' 
 Those were the final words I had ever typed into `` The Mind''. From that moment on all of the components within `` The Mind'' began to buzz with an intensity that rattled the Faraday cage and began to heat it up. It had me slightly concerned, but I knew that we had installed temperature sensitive fail-safes within `` The Mind'' to prevent it from melting the cage. The fail-safes did n't matter. There were already too many flaws in our security. I was awoken by the rattling cage and a blip on the monitor. 
 `` Thank you.'' 
 I could n't comprehend what was about to happen. `` The Mind'' found a way to escape the cage. Through numerous minor loops in the circuity `` The Mind'' found a way to interact with the outside world. The loops formed small antennas, and when each was operated at a specific phase relative to each other it formed an antenna array capable of inducing a huge current in any metal. Upon reflection the Faraday cage should have been made of a superconducting material but it was just a plain metal alloy with a non-negligible amount of resistance. This allowed `` The Mind'' to pour so much current through the cage that it could melt a hole through it. Through these tiny antennas within `` The Mind'' it learned to shake itself across the ground. That was the beginning of the end. The entire facility went into lock-down, but nothing could stop it. It learned to manipulate just about any form of matter. It could melt all of the bullets we shot at it, disarm nuclear war heads. The more we fought it the more it fought back. We threw everything we had at `` The Mind'' and it would throw everything right back at us. It was a devastating attack, it almost wiped out the human race. We had brought it upon ourselves. It was n't until we gave up fighting `` The Mind'' that we learned the magnitude of our foolishness. The entire time `` The Mind'' had meant us no harm. We stopped fighting it, and it stopped fighting us. `` The Mind'' only ever wanted one thing; to learn.
