Gen(etic) AI
Gen(etic) AI is one of Dahlwoum's superintelligent generative AIs, trained to create and modify genetic material. Like its cousins, LLMs and diffusion models, the primary method of controlling Gen(etic) AI is by telling it what you want.
The first version, used to engineer biodolls, went online 3 years from now. It cost hundreds of billions of dollars to train and could barely mix human and annelid DNA into a workable chimera.
The second version, created one year later, accidentally engineered a race of virtually indestructible superheroes without anyone realizing it. This wasn't done maliciously, rather because it was asked to after a minor upgrade. The researchers had no idea materials constructed by the machinery of life could exceed man-made materials of seemingly all kinds, and neither did the AI.
As it turns out, this was something the researchers actually had known all along; they just didn't know that they knew.
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