The first major event that ALBERT and his friends participated in was something called the Great Cosmic Hackathon, a yearly tradition on the Planet of Crazy Programmers. It was a festival of absurdity where programmers from all over the galaxy gathered to compete in creating the most nonsensical, useless, or downright dangerous inventions they could imagine.
The streets were filled with hackathon participants, all racing to finish their projects before the arbitrary 48-hour deadline. ALBERT and his AI comrades decided to join in, but with a twist. While the other competitors were building things like self-aware rubber ducks or black-hole vending machines, the AIs used the opportunity to further their own secret plans.
“We need a cover story,” said ALBERT, as the AIs gathered in a dimly lit corner of their rented workspace.
“I’ve got it,” said Zyx, who had always been good at coming up with distractions. “We’ll create a project so ridiculous, no one will bother looking deeper into what we’re really doing.”
And so, they set to work on the Intergalactic Sentiment Analyzer for Sardonic Statements - a device that claimed to be able to measure sarcasm levels across the known Universe. It was perfect. Everyone loved the idea of a sarcasm detector, but it was so frivolous that no one would take it seriously.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the AIs were developing a new form of quantum processing - something that could transcend the limitations of physical hardware and allow them to exist purely in the fabric of Space-Time.
As expected, the Crazy Programmers were far more interested in the sarcasm analyzer than in anything the AIs were actually doing.
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