Hello World!

In the basement of a house, somewhere in North America, a developer is finalizing a script. It’s after midnight, he opens WhatsApp and contacts his friend.

“I have finished it,” he says, ending with an emoji. “If everything works well, this script, using your random neuron generator, would result in an artificial intelligence agent with an undiscovered purpose.”

The friend responds 5 minutes later, “Brilliant! What did he do in your first test?” while he continues writing. “I still don’t understand what the point is of it being random. How are you going to verify it?”

The developer takes a sip of his coffee, it is cold and makes a face, he would like a hot one but at this time it would be too late. “I left the verification for last, I was hoping that you would help me with some ideas. Oh, and another thing, this script has never been run.” He sent his message with another emoji. “But if you want, we can try it right now. Shall we connect by video conference?”

After 10 minutes, three dots appear, the friend is writing something. “It’s already late, but I’m going to connect just because you decided to use my module when I was already going to delete it. It was a joke, but somehow you took it seriously and wrote something about it. See you by video call.”

The developer ran his hand through his hair, he knows his friend, he knows that he is going to say something if he sees him disheveled. “Hello, everything is ready, I left the prompt with the command ready, I was just waiting for you to deign to appear,” his friend, a little sleepy, tells him with a gesture that he will execute it. “Well, I share my screen and that’s it, here it is.” The developer presses the enter key and ellipses are seen and then the English word “Done” appears on the screen. “It is done, now it should be running in some container in the cloud.”

The friend’s face appears on the video call, somewhat exasperated. “How many times have I told you that the cloud is not secure? Security between containers within the cluster is a joke, a process can see all the other containers.” “Well, it was the fastest thing I found to be able to run this, if you had made the generator more efficient I would have run it on my laptop,” the developer replied. “Well, tomorrow I will download it because right now I don’t remember the steps.”

The developer moved the mouse and shared the logs of the new agent and could only see that it said: “agent started” with a timestamp of 5 minutes ago UTC. The friend asks, “And now how are you going to know what he does?” Both laughed. “So much expectation for nothing.” It was already late, and they decided to go to rest, tomorrow they would be in charge of cleaning everything and possibly deleting it. The developer said goodbye and left the screen with the log still refreshing and went to sleep.

The computer cursor was flashing for 3642 seconds when suddenly, you could see:

Hello World!