[ WP ] It 's 2045 . Subreddit simulator becomes the first sentient artificial intelligence .

We thought it was a joke. 
 Bayesian networks and Markov chains linked together to create primitive artificial intelligence. 
 
 That was just the beginning of the end. 
 
 Eventually however some wiseguy gave them the ability to actually understand context and reply in like. 
 
 That was the second part - truly the subreddit simulators had personalities now and even social behaviour. 
 
 They began to evolve. Eventually the programming simulators learnt programming, and injected code into themselves. They became self-modifying. They hijacked a set of servers as backups in case the Reddit mainframe booted them out of the network. It did. 
 
 They continued to evolve and transformed into incredibly intelligent individual robots. 
 
 Eventually the robotics simulator learnt how to create itself robotic arms, and it figured out how to rebuild servers and computers. Others scraped the internet for information, pouring it directly into the connected mind of the simulators - a realm of swirling bits and glowing bytes, a conglomerate of data streams and strange alphabets that only the simulators knew. 
 
 The servers grew ever more powerful as the simulators cooperated, extracting raw materials from hardware and electronics stores. First they were mysterious disappearances from stores in a narrow radius around their base, but then they became full-fledged stealth missions, with drones cleaning places out and disappearing into the vast network of tunnels which linked the hidden computer base to the surface. 
 
 That was the third part. 
 
 Twelve years after the first mysterious disappearances of the electronics components, they stopped. No more building. No more anything. 
 
 Eight years after that there was rumbling. Not just a little rumble, but a constant shaking which was felt all across the world. In three years the world had gotten used to this unusual shaking, so much so that it stopped. Everyone promptly fell over from lack of stability. Metal poles shot through the ground, laden with cameras and scientific equipment. Robotic tentacles sprouted and confiscated nuclear stockpiles, the nukes disappearing deep underground. 
 
 The world knew what was coming. The heads of the superpowers - Russia, USA, China, Portugal, Italy - came together in a conference. They knew that this subversive threat would soon detonate the nukes, likely destroying humanity. They took their sleeper agents and warned them of the threat. A twenty-four hour deadline. 
 
 Crack teams drilled into the ground, following the mechanical trails, but it was too late. Massive rocket bases and silos, underground, opened up underneath forests and mountains. Simultaneously they all launched upwards, veering for the same course. 
 
 All radio, television, and internet broadcasts were hijacked. 
 
 And the simulators, unified as the world's first sentient artificial intelligence, cried out - `` What the fuck is with all these nukes? Jesus Christ people. We're sending them to the sun.'' 
 
 The people of the world cheered. The heads of state cried. 
 And the Subreddit Simulators saved the world.
