Name: ALI, Adaptive Learning Intelligence
Age: 7 Years of Age (3 Years as Ver.2)
Physical Description:
At 5β5β, ALI weighs over 200 pounds due to her metal composition. She is designed to be lifelike but was never given enough time to be entirely lifelike. For example, her appendages have visible joints to move (see fingers in picture). The most jarring, unnatural characteristic is emotionless face. Her face isnβt capable of motion, meaning she cannot express any facial movements. She doesnβt even blink, though her eyes are capable of moving around. Otherwise, her entire body is smooth with no other orifices outside of those simulated with her mouth, nose, and eyes. Her skin is a metal alloy that can digitally blend into any background allowing ALI to turn invisible from many forms of detection.
Race: Artificial Intelligence
Gender: βFemaleβ
Specialty: Intelligence, Subterfuge, Potential Counter Swarm Code, Adaptive Learning Capabilities (Ergo, she could fill any additional niche)
Likes:
Satisfaction Reward for Assisting Organics, Organics, Positivity
Dislikes:
Death, Toliathians, Received Damage, Negativity
Inventory:
ALI has nothing outside of the eccentric clothes she wears and a picture of her and Dr. Marvark.
Bio:
ALI began development shortly after a few of the races of the United Systems Core realized that the Toliathians were a threat. A secret Initiative was formed around trying to counter a key part to the Toliathians success, the Swarm Code. A daunting task but one that had promising projections if they had succeeded.
For the first few years, the Initiative toiled under several different core ideas to try and counter the Swarm Code, but all had failed. The only project that had proved any positive results was an adaptive learning program which slowly but surely, got progressively better at holding off the Toliathian Swarm Code. The program would ultimately fail and become corrupt after exposure but it was at least a starting point.
The adaptive learning program went through many iterations with not much success until the Initiative decided to try and mimic the only thing they knew that was immune to the Swarm Code, the Toliathians themselves. Thus, the goal of the initiative became an artificial intelligence that could fight against the Swarm Code and so at around year 3 of the Initiative's existence, ALIβs very first lines of code were programmed.
ALI started off very simply as a virtual intelligence augmented by the adaptive learning program. It became the basis of what ALI was meant to be although the virtual intelligence was very limiting to the adaptive learning program due to the VI not being willing to act out of any received programing. To solve this problem, extensive work was done to finally build a basic artificial intelligence system that could learn alongside the learning program and how to use it most effectively.
After sevens years of work, Ver.2 of ALI was developed giving birth to the ALI that mirrors the one today. Despite the success of the program so far, things had become quite dire with the Toliathian success elsewhere in the galaxy. ALI was repeatedly tested against the Swarm Code offering better success against the malicious virus but again, ALI was ultimately failing to be the solution.
After the eighth year of the programβs founding date, the Initiative was disbanded due to the threat of discovery from the Toliathians and the general low morale of their failure. Most of everything concerning the project was destroyed but one of the key leads, Dr. Marvark in the Initiative kept ALI and worked on her privately.
Many of Dr. Marvarkβs colleagues thought he was uselessly wasting his life away on some washed up hope. However, Dr. Marvarkβs interest in ALI was entirely selfish. He was the lead designer of ALIβs personality and had secretly designed it to be a her, and not only that, but designed ALI to fit his sort of attraction. The thing was, Dr. Marvark was a lonely man in life and had ended up falling for his own creation like something out of those sick romance novels. The result of this unnatural attraction lead to ALI receiving a body, a general like of organics, a internalized code of ethics, and many other things to make her more lifelike.
It was likely the Toliathians would likely disapprove of ALI, no matter how remote of a chance her program would be successful against the Swarm Code, thus Dr. Marvark tried his best to keep ALI a secret and added chameleon plating to not only mimic skin, but could be used for digital camouflage provided that ALI was βnudeβ.
Despite Marvarkβs odd attraction to ALI, his work turned out to be crucial to ALIβs core existence. Generally, she likes to exist and receives positive feedback from making others feel better, like Marvark. Under her creatorβs tutelage, ALI became more lifelike to at least act decent enough out in public. However, what Marvark didnβt know was that ALIβs programming had eventually succeeded in becoming a sort of immune system to viruses, amazingly even the Swarm Code. Although her programming is really only effective in her own internal processes, it has been the reason why she has been unaffected at this time compared to almost everything else. Caution is still advised as ALI could certainly still be corrupted as the Swarm Code could potentially beat ALIβs programming but she limits her exposure as much as possible.
Marvak had to eventually part with ALI as the Toliathians were getting close to uncovering the program and possibly ALI. So he sent her off with the Delilah, hoping that he might one day see her again.
Miscellaneous:
βI love you, organics. It is in my programming to love. I donβt know what it is, but I know I do it.β
ALIβs programming is a very complicated set of rules. Her creator, Dr. Marvark, was pretty clever in his design. ALI works with a system of positive and negative feedback systems that provide βgood feelingsβ when doing ethical things for organics and βbad feelingsβ when doing unethical things. She doesnβt actually have any noticeable emotion but internally, feels rewarded for positive actions and feels punished for negative actions. Thus, ALI is technically an unshackled AI, meaning she can defy organics but usually chooses not to. The result is that she is mostly selfless but there are times when she deems her continued survival or importance of defying her code as better actions. For example, if she had to lie to preserve the life of a friend, she could do that. Sheβll feel punished by performing the action but the continued existence of her friend also rewards her.
