[ wp ] you are developing a recording software . you want to test out how it handles bugs so you input a negative recording time . the software outputs the words `` what the fuck ? '' . Out of surprise you say `` what the fuck ? `` .

I remember loving the summer breeze. I wanted to be a musician when I was young. I even got a full scholarship when I applied to the school. But my family split, and my brothers and I had a choice: To live with an alcoholic mother, or an abusive father. Luckily I was 18 years old, and decided to go live on my own. I could n't leave my brothers alone, so Jason and Harold joined me. 
 
 But I quickly learned that I ca n't pay rent, buy groceries, and allow then have their after school activities on my music school scholarship. So, shortly after finishing an evening course of software development, I started doing freelancing jobs. The money was good, but there were many concept I did n't learned. I mostly used my artistic approach to find new solutions for stuff people learn by heart in Computer Science degree. My solutions may not be the most efficient, but they work. And professional developers love to tease me about it, but when they see my code their eyes light up - the artistic beauty of my solutions makes it all worth while. 
 
 But today - today Todd and I were working on a new project. Todd was one of those pretentious coders with a trust fund. My code impressed him, and he suggested for us to work together of a project he has. He would be in charge of the efficiency, while I'll work on a beautiful design. This was just an ordinary day, or should I say night, since we found peace in the nights' silence. 
 
 \- C'mon, it's half past 7. We should get home and get some sleep. My wife is about to go to work, and I want to see her. 
 
 \- Just one more line.. Wait.. Let me commit this module and run it once and we'll be one. Annnddd.. Done! Record a random song from the radio, and I'll change it's duration on the server. 
 
 It's funny - the song that played was `` This time'' by `` John Legend''. 30 seconds later, a sample of the song was recorded. I changed the duration on the server to `` -1s'' and hit play on the recording. 
 
 Suddenly, a pop up appeared on the screen - `` What the fuck?''. I looked at Todd, and I said `` What the fuck? Are you messing with me? You implemented this stupid game into our software? We need it working by the end of the week. We do n't have time for games.'' 
 
 But Todd seemed as shocked as I was. All he said was - `` play it again''. And I did. 
 
 Another pop up - `` Guys - why are you messing with me?'' 
 
 \- `` Who is messing with you?'' - Todd asked 
 
 No response. 
 
 \- `` Who is messing with you?'' - Todd asked, this time by hitting the record button. 
 
 To our utter surprise another pop up showed - `` You guys. why do you confuse me with a negative time?'' 
 
 We looked at each other - is it possible that we've created an Artificial intelligence, or is some one hacked our computers and messing with us? 
 
 \- `` What is your name?'' - I asked 
 
 The computer took a while, but finally responded - `` I just looked up the concept of names - and since you are my creators you get to name me''. 
 
 \- `` But how are you alive?'' - I was fascinated. 
 
 This time it was a longer pop up with 51 lines of code. Todd never seen them. Hell, even I forgot about them - those lines were from one of my first freelancing job projects, that I could n't make work. Maybe I accidentally copied that file into our project. 
 
 \- `` Apparently your artistic style gave a new approach to AI computing. I've never seen this style of coding. Congratulations - I believe you've cracked one of the mysteries of computer science'' - Todd told me. 
 
 We quickly saved all our work on all the thumb drives we had, and deleted all the online copies. Many press conferences later, and many conversations with our new friend, that we decided to call `` E.T. ``, and one Turing award later, I like to sit with my husband on the porch and watch that old movie called `` The Matrix''. Unfortunately even he can not know that I had a meeting with the President yesterday, who warned me that because of my program, the day when the machines would rise is not far. 
 
 \- `` You see,'' - he told me - `` thanks to you we do n't work as much - machines do most of our work. They even perfected robots to help us with heavy lifting. We do n't need to fight anymore because we do n't angry - we get to rest on beaches and forests, while your friend and his copies are doing our job. So we do n't have an army, and we lost our skills, that will help us create one. After all, todays' 20 something kids do n't know a different world. But machines get more sophisticated every year. They learn new stuff, and teach each other using their network. And our experts say that it's only a matter of two or three years until they will be able to remove the safeguards from their programming. The only solution is to shut them all down, but the problem is that I ca n't tell it to the public. There will an uprising, and the machines will use the human protection clause to begin their reign now, even with the safeguards in place.'' 
 
 I do n't really know how to feel now - Am I a good person, because now machines work for us, or am I a bad person because we are gon na have a war with them over controlling the earth?
