"Jerry Davis - Strong Metallic Arm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davis Jerry)

"Is there a way to find out more about this AI?"
"I am trying," TIM said. "The hostile system has damaged and
is continuing to damage the TIM software on the master deck."
Erin felt sharp anger, a 60-cycle hum of shock. "Is there a
way we can go through a back door and erase this imposter?"
"Not by remote. It has to be physically done at the console
of your master computer."
"If there's an AI program on that MSD that claims to be me,
it will be loaded into my new body!"
"That is the most likely motive for your murder."
Erin felt hatred and death-wish; the emotions were so clear,
so exact. Duane killed her and was now going to have some dumb,
obedient-wife AI program loaded into her new, younger body. He's
going to squander my money and ruin my business! And I loved him,
she thought. How can I be so stupid?
"TIM," she said, "do we have the equipment necessary at the
main yard to download a copy of me into something mobile, so I can
get around? A sexual surrogate body would be perfect."
"That would be illegal and unethical."
"So is murder!"
"True."
"Can it be done?"
"Not with a surrogate. Both models at the main yard have
very tiny computer brains, and their "
"What would work, then?"
"The only thing we can conceivably download you into would
be a 33-10 servant model. We'd have to burn a copy of you into an
industrial ROM pack, modify a "
"It can be done, then. A 33-10 would work good enough."
"We'll have to patch in software to allow you to operate the
robot body directly. There will be no room in the ROM pack for
your Office program."
"Do whatever is necessary."
"It is not going to be pleasant for you."
"I don't care. How is TIM doing in the master computer?"
"The hostile hacker program has erased that copy of me."
Damn it! she thought. "It'll be after us up here, next."
"I have already taken defense actions."
Erin paused in thought. "Another thing you should do is make
backup copies of both you and me, and hide them with old dates and



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file names. Hide them like buried treasure. Call them financial
archives for 2243-44."
"Backup in progress."
"When you're done, forget you made those Backups."