Artificial Life Incorporated
Formed in the mid 21st Century out of the break-up of the largest software corporation at that time, Microsoft, Artificial Life's research into AI culminated in the Matriarch Program, descendants of which are still the industry standard for automated starship navigation software.
Android technology has become so commonplace in the late 23rd Century that it is standard ICA policy for any licensed starship to have an android crew-member on board. Even though AI technology is now constructed by other corporations, none manufacture them in the same volume or of the same quality.
AL Inc. are also responsible for the Rebirth terraforming robots, Series 81 android technology and for fulfilling 100% of the staffing requirements of Aphrodite Station off Centauri Prime with its androids. It also has the lucrative contract to supply the UEAF with android technology. With so many aspects of 23rd Century life involving intelligent computer software, it could be said that Artificial Life have their fingers into almost every area of day to day living.
Artificial Life's corporate headquarters is still located on Earth, in United Americas territory.The twelve board members plot corporate policy in secrecy. They operate invisibly within the company and often follow their own rules.
History
2147 - Artificial Life Incorporated is founded
SEATTLE, UNITED AMERICAS, EARTH: The corporation is founded out of the break-up of Microsoft Corp by its CEO Tabitha Gates.
2148 - The creation of Adam
SEATTLE, UNITED AMERICAS, EARTH: AL Inc. unveil 'Adam', the first ever self-aware computer. The New Confederate Christian Church (NCCC) of the United Americas, one of the fastest growing religions of the 22nd Century, denounces Adam as blasphemy.
2164 - First commercial androids
AL Inc. develops its first generation of commercial androids: available for non-combat roles, such as piloting, tactical assistance and paramedical staff. They are deliberately limited by behavioural inhibitors based on Asimov’s famous 3 laws of robotics.
Over the next decade, AL Inc. sells licences to several corporations, allowing them to develop and produce their own models.
2214 - The Auton Project
During the initial Alpha Prototype Distribution stage of its 5th Generation Androids, Artificial Life runs into problems. Some of the Fifth Gens, or Autons, are found to be too emotional and uncontrollable. When tests are run, it is revealed that they have evolved way beyond their design parameters and are showing signs of real consciousness, otherwise known as Alpha Level AI.
The Auton Project is cancelled shortly thereafter and all existing Fifth Gen models are deemed illegal and recalled for destruction. Since this time Alpha Level AI has been banned apart from a handful of government monitored examples.
Founding Date
2147 CE
Type
Megacorporation
Alternative Names
ALI
Government System
Meritocracy
Economic System
Market economy
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