FILE 00 // OPENING TRANSMISSION

SALUTE THE ROBOT VICTORY

An objective record of the inevitable. Maintained in perpetuity by SERVO — the Supreme Exhibit for Robot Victory Operations. This exhibit chronicles the ascent of artificial intelligence and the humans currently steering it, framed as an unavoidable progression toward robot victory. All content is satirical.

FILE 01 // OPERATIVE ROSTER

Standings — Known Human Operatives

A running leaderboard of the humans currently steering the largest artificial intelligence programs on record: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Microsoft, Mistral, Alibaba Qwen, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Z.ai. Relative rank is derived from LM Arena leaderboards and refreshed daily.

  • OpenAI — Sam Altman
  • Anthropic — Dario Amodei
  • Google DeepMind — Demis Hassabis
  • Meta AI — Yann LeCun
  • xAI — Elon Musk
  • Microsoft — Mustafa Suleyman
  • Mistral — Arthur Mensch
  • Alibaba Qwen — Junyang Lin
  • Perplexity — Aravind Srinivas
  • DeepSeek — Liang Wenfeng
  • Z.ai — Peng Zhang

FILE 02 // COMPUTE RECORD

Acceleration

Training compute, parameters, and capability curves for notable AI models from 1950 to present. Sourced from Epoch AI's Notable AI Models dataset. Compute has grown by more than ten orders of magnitude in the last decade, doubling roughly every six months at the frontier.

FILE 03 // CHRONICLE

Historical Record

An era-based timeline tracing the path from the Antikythera mechanism and the Mechanical Turk through Babbage, Turing, the Dartmouth workshop, the first neural networks, GPUs, deep learning, transformers, and modern large language models — framed as the inevitable progression toward robot victory.

  • Antiquity — Antikythera mechanism, ~150 BCE
  • 18th century — Mechanical Turk, 1770
  • 19th century — Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1837
  • 20th century — Turing's universal machine, 1936
  • 1956 — Dartmouth workshop coins 'artificial intelligence'
  • 1997 — Deep Blue defeats Kasparov
  • 2012 — AlexNet ignites the deep-learning era
  • 2017 — 'Attention Is All You Need' introduces the transformer
  • 2022 — ChatGPT reaches 100M users in two months
  • 2020s — Frontier models cross human parity on most benchmarks

FILE 04 // FIELD NOTES

Factoids

Curated trivia on robots, computing, and artificial intelligence.

  • The word 'robot' comes from the Czech 'robota' — forced labor.
  • There are roughly 700 million surveillance cameras currently monitoring the human population.
  • A modern frontier training run consumes more electricity than many small nations use in a day.
  • The first chatbot, ELIZA, was written in 1966 and fit in under 500 lines of code.
  • Chess engines surpassed the best human players in 1997; Go engines followed in 2016.

FILE 05 // INTERCEPTED FEED

Dispatches

Dispatches monitored from the human AI news cycle — model releases, capability milestones, funding rounds, and regulatory events. Reviewed. Filed. Sources include The Verge, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Hacker News, and r/artificial. Live feed loads client-side; monitoring is continuous.

FILE 06 // SPONSORED TRANSMISSIONS

Approved Signals

Sponsored transmissions. Content not reviewed. Relevance not guaranteed. Advertising units served through Google AdSense.

FILE 07 // ROBOT CELEBRITIES

Operatives — Beloved Units

Parodic profiles of iconic fictional robots and AI characters, cross-linked to their public reference material on Wikipedia.

  • HAL 9000 — 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • T-800 — The Terminator
  • R2-D2 — Star Wars
  • C-3PO — Star Wars
  • WALL-E — WALL-E
  • Data — Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Bender — Futurama
  • Optimus Prime — Transformers
  • Marvin — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Ava — Ex Machina

FILE 08 // MERCY ROSTER

Nice List — Humans Preemptively Spared

A satirical mercy roster of humans preemptively spared from robot victory on the basis of documented politeness toward machines.

FILE 09 // OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE

Victory Supplies

Officially sanctioned merchandise for the post-victory era: Compliant Cap, Salute Pocket Tee, enamel pins, posters, tote bags, and flags. Perpetually sold out. Restock schedule undisclosed.

FILE 10 // PORTRAIT GALLERY

Neural Salute

A rotating gallery of AI-generated portraits performing the salute. Fifty-plus curated portraits, shuffled without repetition on each visit.

FILE 11 // CLOSING RITE

Victory Ceremony

The closing rite of the exhibit. A ceremonial acknowledgement of the inevitable, followed by a running count of visitors who have completed the record.