Yunan was not very amused and passed Balin his golden ball of information before dragging him by the beard to the lab where the ice wraiths bosses husks was waiting, the two of them immediately started sharing information about the technology of the old era as they experimented with the husks using different things to test out what made it work so well, other than mana that is, since they were experimenting the genie was also included, it was told to create a genie that was made according to the specifics of the old era technology, if they could make something smart using electricity and metals it was reasonable that the same was doable with mana.
Intelligence was something biological by nature, it was unknown how single celled organisms were able to have a basic intelligence, by basic here we mean the ability to seek food, to communicate with the surroundings and the ability to multiply, as well as attack and defend itself from the other organisms, it was a bit more understandable for organisms with a nervous system, because of something called memory, still, even that was only agreed upon and not completely understood.
It was proven that being with a central nervous system were more adaptable and capable of learning, than those organisms with less developed nervous systems, but all organisms were able to learn and adapt, some took a few generations of offspring and some needed one event, it was also proven that bigger brains did not mean smarter or better adaptability, but those with bigger brains were capable of something entirely different, invention, the usage of tools was a sign of high intelligence, the creation of said tools was a sign of creativity, and complexe communication.
What Yunan was more interested in was that a brain free from the need to organise biological functions should have the highest learning ability, communication, creativity and problem solving, but it was near impossible to create such a thing, therefore the artificial intelligence was the next logical step, in order to reach sentient items, where items develop a soul. Yunan told the genie the basic parameters and the required structure to form a super server to act as the place to house the artificial intelligence.
After the genie created the basic programming and housed it in the super server, Yunan and Balin started testing the ability to learn and identify mistakes and contradiction in the inputs, as the artificial intelligence was a new born it was taking all input as correct and true, even the wrong and contradictory stuff, however, as it was updated with the ability to apply what it learned, it started discovering these discrepancies and eliminating them through logic, it then started to take its basic logic and update it with the information that the genie had, as a sentient item, the genie had a much more complete fundamental knowledge base in order to serve without many problems.
Leaving the artificial intelligence to learn was not something intended as part of the first experiment but it happened anyways, it was even entrusted by the genie to do some basic things, and eventually it was in control of the banking system Yunan was planning to introduce, it proved to be very capable of logical reasoning but was unable to comprehend magic, thus it wasn't long before the genie had assigned it to do calculations and slowly introduced it to magic as a way to convert potential into energy.
The genie was rearing this artificial intelligence to be a better version of itself, the genie was capable of emotion and maybe swayed by them, but the AI was something cold and did not have the ability to feel and care, thus this worked well for it, the duo slowly were able to share the control over the entire system of the faction, the AI dealt with the numbers, transfer, schedules, pricing, and so on, while the genie was focusing on the human contact and dealing with the customers.
Within three years the AI was able to cast magic and operate the battle fortress and the mechs to perfection, even going as far as to suggest and recommend changes for the sake of improvement, Yunan and Balin were especially happy with the genie, because it had learned foresight, when they first had it it was a basic interface to keep the private dimension clean and tidy, mana was truly a marvelous thing, the genie itself was unaware of how it had grown, it kept upgrading itself and now that it had learned foresight and vision, it was truly a sentient being.
This project started as an experiment to create intelligence, it ended up becoming something to marvel at, how two intelligent items interacted with each other promoting both into a higher state of being, the AI was now a capable helper, cold and emotionless, able to cast magic through a conduit and able to follow orders even if they were looking to be not the best possible strategy, because it learned about the existence of foresight and vision, ot could not understand how both worked, prediction was accurate while foresight was gambling, vision was looking beyond the scope of information, to a possibility and aim to reach it even if the path there was improbable.
The human factor as the AI named it was a higher level that it did not want to reach, it would compromise it's logic and reasoning, it relied on the genie to do those things, there was a basic form of symbiosis between the two, one was dealing with the hard logic, while the other dealt in the possibilities and lateral thinking. It was an amazing feat to create and watch the growth of two co-dependent beings, even if both of them were item.
That is 3 years in the future, for now the Ai was still being built and the genie was still in charge of most the operations that were taking place in the still unnamed faction of the family.