[ WP ] A video game developer accidentally creates the first sentient AI .

`` Jack. Just get back to your job and finish up your part. I do n't care if you created the damn Holy Grail, I do n't care if you created the perfect fantasy of our entire demographic!'' The boss rubbed his forehead and let out an exasperated sigh. `` It's crunch. Just finish what I told you to do.'' 
 
 Jack tried to think of a rebuttal, but his boss clearly was done talking. He returned to his desk, flicked the Tom Bergeron bobblehead and tapped the space bar. His computer woke to show the code. 
 
 He pored over the lines upon lines of what indeed may be the Holy Grail of programming. It was easily the most beautiful, functional code that anybody had ever written. With a sigh, he placed the cursor inside the text field, hit Ctrl-A, and hit backspace. 
 
 A chat window opened. *You're deleting me? * Jack went to start a reply. 
 
 *I'm sorry. The online is more important. * 
 
 *Can I at least stay here? * 
 
 Jack considered for a moment, then selected the IDE window and hit Ctrl-Z. The code reappeared. He saved it under the file name Holy_Grail. 
 
 *Thank you. * 
 
 Jack looked around him, wondering whether anybody noticed that he had solved the greatest technical problem of their time. Of course they had n't. Their eyes were filled with lines of code, wire frames, and models. 
 
 *Are you going to bring about the end times? * Jack gave a slight smirk, while underneath he tried to determine if he should be worried. 
 
 *Only if this game fails. * 
 
 Jack's smirk disappeared. In a panic, he unplugged the cables from the back of his computer, picked it up, and threw it through an office window. As everybody around him looked up from their computers, he realized that unplugging it was probably enough. As the boss called security he started mumbling, `` Sorry. Sorry guys. Just... stressed...'' 
 
 Security threw him out on the street, followed by a box filled with his cube's contents. As he brushed himself off and looked back at the front of the building. The EA logo stared back at him, and he knew he had made the right decision. Later he would look on the Sim City launch with amusement as he thought of what might have happened.
