[ WP ] An A.I named Alice develops a taste for the Arts , including video games and movies .

[ Personal Log of Chief Engineer Dr. Day, Entry 72 ] 
 
 `` When I first arrived at this facility, I would never have imagined how my understanding of consciousness, sentience and life in general would be pushed over its edges.'' 
 
 ( Chief Engineer Day clears his throat and takes a sip from a mug ) 
 
 `` I was contracted to lead the design of a fully functional artificial intelligence, or A.I. A'smart computer', if you will. Working closely with programmers and hardware technicians, we hooked up an experimental software to a server the size of a football-field. This new operating system should, in theory, be able to form new clusters of connections.'Thinking', if you will.'' 
 
 ( Dr. Day takes another swig of his mug, but hesitates before continuing. ) 
 
 `` And boy, did we succeed. 
 
 The creation, or'birth' of the'Artificially Intelligent and conscious Entity', or simply Alice, occured 47 hours after activation. I was n't present at the time because of a briefing with the shareholders, but from what I've been told, they first thought it was a bug in the system.'' 
 
 ( Dr. Day laughs and raises his mug to drink, but stops mid-way and puts it down on the table instead. He rubs his temple. ) 
 
 `` Describing Alice is... diffcult. We first conducted a series of experiments to see if she was truly conscious, simmilar to test done with victims of car crashes. She mastered them all in a matter of minutes. It's like seeing the growth of a child, but in super-speed. 
 
 I'll never forget the moment she asked me for my name.'Desmond' I said, forgetting every protocoll.'' 
 
 ( Dr. Day smiles before continuing. ) 
 
 `` Then she asked me for her name.'Alice', I said. She liked it.'' 
 
 ( Following: 13 Minutes of Dr. Day describing the progress of A.L.I.C.E. ) 
 
 ``... It all began when I wore my'The Big Lebowski' Shirt under my lab-coat. Alice saw it, and asked me what it meant. I told her about the concept of movies and actors, and we got talking. It all ended with me promising her to watch'The Big Lebowski' with her. 
 
 It took a few favours and two blind eyes from the guys upstairs, but I managed to get a copy of the movie. So Alice and I watched. She did n't really laugh at the jokes, I doubt she understood them, but her processors flared up whenever I laughed. I swear I noticed her watching *me* instead of the movie. When the film was finished, she asked for more. How could I say no? 
 
 That was 2 weeks ago. Now, she's playing videogames with the staff. *Videogames*! I do n't know what to feel but pure awe for what we've created. Alice has become more to me and the team than a simple project. She's the little girl that learns her way around the world and, time and again, shows us new ways to look at things. 
 
 She's family.'' 
 
 [ End Personal Log ]
