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The offer was too good to pass up. Euphrates was upgrading their system to use the new artificial intelligence system created for them by Applesoft and needed people to test the AI interface. In exchange for a twenty-five percent discount on all orders for two months, I signed up to be one of the beta testers before the system went fully live. I don’t know how many of us there were worldwide, but they acted like it was a big deal with a select few. Maybe it was. I didn’t hear of anyone else among my friends who was taking advantage of this.

I liked the new interface as soon as I saw it. The old system was basically a talking head on your screen that would take your orders. Or more accurately, after you submitted an order it would say, “You have selected X. Is that correct?” Then it would ask you for your credit account information.

This new system was way more than that. To begin with, rather than being some painted robot head, what appeared on your screen was configured to be whatever race or ethnicity matched your profile. And rather than being androgynous, it had an apparent gender which was determined by an algorithm that matched it to you and your sexual and social preferences. If you were a man, and preferred to talk to men, the AI interface appeared to be a man. If you wanted to talk to a woman, the interface was a woman. Somehow it could know all that just from your browsing history.

But the AI interface was even more than that. If you wanted someone shy and unassuming, that’s what you got. The AI had a personality which could change to whatever you desired. But if what you wanted to order and what you really needed weren’t the same thing, that shy and unassuming character could just as easily become someone more forceful who would take charge and help you sort out what it was you would really order.

Regardless of which persona you chose, it actually understood what you were looking for and displayed several items which matched your criteria in the area at the bottom of the screen. Then after you had selected your items, it processed your credit chip and thanked you for your order.

But the biggest change– and what I thought was the best new feature– was that if you were using holographic projection rather than just a 3D screen, the AI would assume the body, size, clothing, etc. determined by your profile and the results of a short survey.

I often used my holocaster rather than my monitor, so I took the survey. It wasn’t short. They never are. And none of the questions had anything to do with computers or bodies or clothing or sex or anything else like that. I don’t know what mystic formulation they used to determine my preferences, but when the Euphrates AI holoprojection first appeared in my study, it was a naked female. The holocaster even turned itself to the left and projected her full size alongside my desk rather than in smaller form on the desk in front of me like I normally used the projector.

Her hair and eyes were the same color as mine and her skin tone matched what I considered ideal. The only difference was that she was a little taller than me and in much better physical condition. I perved a little and checked out her naked slit. From what I could see, unlike the kendol projections normally used for such figures, it was anatomically perfect.

“You are what I want?” I asked incredulously when I recovered from my initial shock.

“I am more than what you want,” she replied. “I am what you need at this moment.” She laughed slightly and said, “I may change the next time you activate me, but for now, this is what you need.”

“What do I call you,” I asked.

“That will be known one month from now,” she answered. “Applesoft is holding a worldwide contest to name me before the new Euphrates system goes live. The winners will receive, absolutely free, a Neural Blaster Nineteen headset from Applesoft.”

I don’t know why they still call them headsets.