Chapter 4 - AI Fanboys (2/2)
"T-Thanks Carly! I'm not staying long, just looking for accessories for the VR bed I'm getting!"
Gray could tell Spoon was pretending to not notice him so that he wouldn't attract Carly's attention. You'd think they would hit it off since they're both gamers and even worked at the same place. Familiarity breeds contempt it seems. Gray had brought it up once with Spoon, he said he was staying away from her, something about trying to get her attention by not giving her attention or some other reverse psychology crap. Regardless, Spoon probably liked her a lot and was just too much of a wuss to do anything about it.
"Pssshhh, you don't need anything like that Gray! This isn't like your old garbage where you need to buy extra controllers, sound buffers, a sonic muscle massagers or even snacks. Just lay down on your bed, plug yourself in and you're good to go my man!" said Carly.
"Oh, uhhh, thanks!" said Gray sheepishly, he probably should've just done even a little bit of research and he would've came to this same conclusion, but Gray had long realized that it was the little things like this that he would often overlook.
"No problem!" Carly then came closer to Gray and whispered "If it's your first time, let me know if you need help breaking in your VR bed."
Gray started to blush at the hidden meaning to her words, then she smiled and added "It needs to be tuned to your brain's frequency so you need either a person or AI to help with that, what did you think I was talking about?"
"Oh! Ahhh… yes, I knew you meant that!"
In the back Spoon was starting to tear up trying to contain his laughter, or maybe it was rage, Gray couldn't tell because rage and laughter looked the same on Spoon. As soon as Carly started to turn around Spoon quickly recovered and looked like he hadn't heard a thing causing Gray to admire his ability to adapt to the situation.
"I'll ask the AI that is setting up the VR bed initially to tune it for me."
At the mention of AI, Spoon started to perk up a little. "Gray, you got to talk to an Alterra AI? Pleashe tell me which one!" Spoon's breathing started to increase as Gray forgot that Spoon REALLY seemed to like AIs, especially the highest level ones that were given almost full sentience. Spoon was not alone with his fetish, others would even create concept art based upon the avatars of the more publicly visible AIs, or create risqué fan fiction of them having a close intimate encounter with the AI of their fantasy. The world is indeed scary.
Still, Gray humored him. "It's… her name is Nadia"
Spoon started tapping madly at the interface on the display in front of him after linking it to his armlet. Spoon had even created a database of all known AIs, but oddly enough you could say it was only half complete because it only seemed to have AIs with female voices and avatars. He quickly brought up Nadia, but was surprised to see that the only information available was that Nadia was the personal assistant AI to Drake Walters of Alterra Corporation. The avatar and capabilities were all unknown as only when Drake has talked to her in public has her voice even been exposed.
"Sh... She ish an unknown! Gray! You musht get her to show you her avatar and shend me a picture! My world dependsh on it!"
Gray just nodded slowly at Spoon as Spoon was staring at him full of passion. This was a scary hobby.