Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20151007153537/@comment-12161342-20151027155656

Theoretical Advanced Technologies Research Division ''Progress on the wormhole manipulation initiative has proben to be far slower than expected, due to the failure of the first two iterations of the AI intended to handle the quantum mechanical aspects of the science. The AIs functioned well enough, but proved to be unable to adapt to the changing nature of the naescent field of "Quantum Portalling" that they were helping to create. Every time progress was made or previous theories had to be scrapped for new theories, the AIs would bog down and their work would decrease in quality, making further progress impossible. The scientists had recently decided that a new type of AI was in order. Biological organisms display incredible abilities to adapt to their environments, and it was decided that the third AI would be made to behave more like an organism. Instead of using established processors, the CPU would be built similar to a human brain, with electrical connections arranged into "neurons" that could change and grow. The CPU's growth would be guided by sample human stem cells which would be stimulated to try to replicate as brain cells. The DNA governing the growth of the cells would be monitored, and its cues would be translated into growth of the electronic neurons in the CPU. It was hoped that this method would allow for an AI that would behave more like an organism and be able to adapt to its surroundings. The plans were completed and the equipment built. Stem cells were taken from the researcher who had the most proficiency in the fields of mathematics and quantum mechanics, a woman named Caroline. The hybrid computer thus started to grow its CPU, and rudimentary programming was installed into it. The entire setup, officially known as the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, became known as GLaDOS as it developed. ''