Jule's love for 0s and 1s was very unexpected. He wasn't very interested in the workings of computers and other technical stuff until he was 15.

His 15th birthday changed his life and created the spark that was about to grow into a massive fire that could either help him live or burn him alive.

He wasn't interested in celebrating birthdays. He didn't have many people to celebrate with anyways. His single mother was always busy trying to provide him with the comforts of life.

Jule sat in the library sofa analysing the particle derivative of the wave function and laplacian operator totally forgetting about his birthday. Normally he never notices anyone else when he's learning but that day something interesting caught his ears.

A group of older boys who seemed to be in University were standing around a table intently looking at the laptop placed in the middle. The thing that caught his attention was not the funnily dressed guys but the topic that they were discussing about. Artificial Intelligence. Jule has heard about it before but he never stopped to think about it. He always thought it was some futuristic sci-fi fantasy of tech enthusiasts. But these guys were talking about it like it was possible today. Jule stopped his work to listen to their conversation.

"Do you think it will work?" asked the short blonde guy. "I'm pretty sure the model we built is perfect. It just needs a larger and error free dataset to be trained with. Once we train it we'll have a highly intelligent personal companion who can be however one likes it to be. It'll be a boon to introverts like our Sam." The rough looking guy replied. The tall guy started talking about an unbiased dataset and problems of the AI not having a conscience but Jule couldn't listen to it. His mind was whirling with the one thing he had ever wanted in his life. The one that may not be just an unfulfilled wish anymore.

'An intelligent friend'