I have been working on this conundrum. Everyone seems to think that when computers can listen to us and speak to us, they will understand us.
Well, you listen to, and speak to your feet. Do you understand them?
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The problem is, a computer has no reason to do anything, that has not been programmed into it, or assigned as a task to be performed.
So what needs to happen is that the computer is assigned a task of growing in capabilities, speed, and processing power, so that it can more readily understand and anticipate the needs of its human companions.
This is dangerous. How is such a situation different from the ownership of pets?
Place marker.
Happy Birthday, Cold One!
Still having some naggy pains, but I’m having a Quiet Time.
We sleep by the ever-bright hole in the door
eat in the corner
talk to the floor
Soames “cheats” and uses the nanites to copy the mind of the medic, injured in a not so accidental accident.
The medic is in a coma.
That process probably is what leads to EVA later on being nuts.