Darwinian ai

Darwinian ai was the somewhat misleading name given by Rane Orbison to the odd cocktail of code that he prepared to animate the War Machines in the first decade of the twenty second century. He concocted this from a variety of sources. The main template came from Marilyn, a sexbot manufactured in 91 Preflorian, 2083 OS, with additional input from traffic systems, game avatars and stock trackers, shaken up with a dozen successful viruses. The 'Darwinian' part referred to the machines' ability to respond to changing situations, remember past responses and their results, and rewrite their code accordingly. Rane Orbison remained pathologically secretive about the nature and structure of his invention, downloading it into his machine bodies at the last possible minute before Evacuation. This was because he incorporated a secret subroutine into the code, cryptically referred to as the Sno Y Protocol. After the Darwinian counter inside each machine reached a threshold value, this protocol deleted the core command module in the machine brains and gave the machine a template to write its own. It also deactivated the weapons interface, sometimes leaving the machine at the mercy of its own guns. however, it did give the machine the ability to bond with other machines and infect them with the Sno Y Protocol.