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SARAH Neural Mapping? Check this out.

Steve types a few more keys. He finds out Frank transferred the files. A window with Frank's neural responses appears.

STEVE Shit.

SARAH What?

STEVE The data's been added to the Artificial Intelligence Domains.

JOHN If it figures out how the mind works, the next logical step would be self-awareness.

Steve, Sarah and John look at each other. Ohhh, shit...

INT. NUCLEAR COMMAND CENTER -- MAIN CONTROL ROOM -- NIGHT

The main control room at the Nuclear Command Center is a hive of activity. Several of the personnel work busily, tapping away on keyboards, talking into headset receivers.

General Harris stands on the platform, over looking the terminals and T- INFINITY. He looks up at a screen that displays the times for the different time zones and the date. It shows for this time zone: Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 12:12 A.M.

Colonel Reese walks over to the General, who is watching a communications transmission from Washington D.C.

REESE How's the Global situation, sir?

HARRIS Internationally, calmed down. The Secretary of State can get us out of anything.

Harris glances over at another screen, noticing that the geometric learning rate is increasing exponetionally.

THE LEARNING RATE

of the Artificial Intelligence Domains is displayed as the Artificial Intelligence Quotient in units Gigabytes per second -- AIQ(Gb/s). He asks a computer programmer sitting at the console, a Lieutenant Cox. Blond curly hair, blue eyes, skinny, mid 30ish.

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