Good afternoon, House of Madness techies:
When it comes to technology, it seems like nothing is ever enough, and if we're not careful, it just might end up being too much in the end. Had a little help with the idea for this one by my good buddy JJ. Hope you enjoy!
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For weeks now, Matt deVille had been hearing whispers and rumours of the impossible, but today he was going to find out for himself. After witnessing his friend Brody receive grades above "You can do better" and "This is nonsensical filth" for the first time since grade school, he knew there had to be some truth to this 'miracle app' that Brody has been raving about. According to Brody, this app called 'Talk GP34' has the ability to do just about anything you ask of it, and can even write essays upon request on any subject that not only seem like they're written by human hand, but also summarizes everything you could want at once, eliminating the clumsiness and effort of using Google. After much doubt, Matt decided to finally give 'Talk GP34' a chance, and started off with having it solve some simple math equations. "A fucking calculator could do that", Matt said to himself as he thought of something else to challenge the A.I. "Show me the last ten Super Bowl winning quarterbacks with more than fifty yards rushing, and less than one hundred yards passing" and the Talk GP34 came back with a short list instantaneously. "Fucking Google could do that" Matt said to himself defeatedly. Then it came to him; instead of asking it simple facts or readily available information, Matt would ask the Talk GP34 something more sophisticated, and without knowing, changed his life forever.
"Write me a short story about cats" Matt typed into the search feature on Talk GP34, and in seconds he had paragraph after paragraph of a story written about cats. Was it the greatest story he had ever read? No, but it was pretty damn impressive, especially once you took into consideration that it was spewed out in seconds by an A.I. app, yet the flow and feeling of the writing seemed so humanly created. "Big deal" Matt said to himself, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to give Talk GP34 something more challenging and worthy of his time. After trying a couple of 'get rich quick' schemes that failed, followed by a 'how to get in Becky Jarvis's pants' query which garnered nothing more than a response on how to open several types of clothing clasps, something came over Matt and he typed "How to commit the perfect murder". After a few seconds of calculating, the Talk GP34 started typing at a rapid pace, and ten minutes later Matt was staring at eleven paragraphs of pure mayhem.
"Holy fuck" Matt said to his empty bedroom as he slammed his laptop shut, clearly fazed by what he had just read but never intended to set into motion. As Matt calmly collected himself, he slowly opened his laptop again, and began reading paragraph upon paragraph of nightmare fueled insanity invented by a fucking A.I. Every detail of a murder was explained, from the baseball bat being used because of its one-shot kill ability and being virtually untraceable, to the disposal of the body with weighted cinderblocks in the local river. The details of the murder scene and escape route were quite recognizable, so much so that Matt could actually envision the park where the murder takes place, and the river inlet described for disposal where he had fished many an afternoon. Just when Matt was about to laugh the entire thing off, he scrolled back to the top and saw that his A.I. generated perfect murder was titled 'Project Brody'. Matt fell backwards off of his chair, and as he looked at his laptop with agonizing horror, he noticed something else being typed in the search bar all on its own. As he drew closer, he read the most terrifying sentence he'd ever read in his life, "How to transfer A.I. into a human host", and as the paragraphs began to form, Matt calmly opened his closet, grabbed his baseball bat, and headed towards the park.
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