Mechanical me - Prologue

A word before the start

This story is actually happening in the year 2030 where robots are slowly coming into our regular homes and Google made their AI to help people in their homes. But it still has some bugs.
Matt here is actually a youtuber who made Googleplier and in this story he is still 28 years old and has a girlfriend (not wife and a little baby yet)

Elisabeth is just a fictional character and she has no relation to Matt or anyone in real life.
Aaaaalso Googleplier is not just a boring engine but a sophisticated robot and helper in the household.


FUN FACT: the word “ROBOT” was made by our Czech writer Karel Čapek in his story R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which is about the first artificial intelligence made to be enslaved and do all the people´s work, but they revolted and destroyed the humanity.

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Prologue

“And he almost killed me! He broke my dishes and ripped my favourite pants! AND then he reached for my throat! You have to come!”

Elisabeth sighed and rubbed her eyes, still half asleep.
Her “lovable” cousin Matt called her early in the morning. Her phone started buzzing at 6 o'clock and didn't stopped until she woke up and picked it up.

“Hmh?” she hummed into the microphone, her mouth still glued shut from the night and she didn't want to open it up just yet.

“ELIS!” screamed her cousin on the other side of the phone, “it´s me, Matt!”

She hummed in response. She knew it was him who was calling. She put the most annoying music she could find to his number.

“Elis? Are you there?!” he was starting to panic.

Elis opened her mouth and made a few disgusted gulps and tongue exercises before she could talk.

“It is six in the morning and it is my first day off of work so if your house is not on fire or you did not accidentally saw your hand off and you aren't currently bleeding to death, do not even try to bother me cousin,” she growled.

There was a short silence on the other side of the phone, then she heard a soft click of a door and a rattle of the key in the lock.

“He is trying to kill me, El!” he whispered.

It sounded so real she jumped to the sitting position, ready to fire up and run towards his house if anything bad happened on the other side.

“Just...just calm down, OK? Who is trying to hurt you? Do you know him?” she started to whisper too. “Do you want me to call the cops?”

“Nonononono!” he quickly responded. Elis made a confused look.

“Look, dear,“ he calmed down, probably sat and tried to tell her everything.

“You know how I love the new technology…”
At that sentence Elis rolled her eyes. His love is more of a possession than anything less.

“So I saw this new technology made by Google so you know I had to buy it immediately!

But...it turned to be a disaster.” he sounded sad. “It was a new Artificial Intelligence and when I unpacked it and gave it some simple orders, it started to smash my things around and then it tried to hurt me and then it took a knife and tried again so I run away and now I am hiding in the bathroom and I do not know what to do now and I feel very hungry!”
He made a huge gasp for air at the end for how fast he was talking before.

“Soooooooo...It is a HE, SHE or IT? I am confused. Is it a machine? Did you bought a tool you do not know how to operate again? Maaatt don't you remember what happened when you bought that newest blender?!” she whimpered glumly. She knew well how dumb he could act around his new gadgets and the big disasters he could make with them.

She heard a loud groan at the other side of the phone. “NO! It is a machine, it is a man, a robot! And it´s like he somehow developed his own mind and is set to kill! Please help me!”

Elis got up and stretched, “Fine, just wait where you are and I will be there in a minute.” She hung up, tired of hearing him thanking her and telling her to hurry up.
But her dearest cousin would have to wait, she has a bathroom session she could not miss.