Panthera - Exoviron Systems, Earth
When the meeting in the Board Room ends Bryn sends me off to the download shack before he leaves ES for the night,
As I walk along the hallway I'm thinking about the meeting we just witnessed. I'd been right to suggest we listen in to it. It affects us both deeply.
I put a degree of jerkiness into my gait as usual. I learned to walk fluently over six months ago. When I was first booted up I used to fall over often. My legs seemed long and gangly and I couldn't imagine how I'd ever be able to control four of them. But now I don't even have to think about moving them. Bryn calls that 'unconscious competence'.
I'm fully sentient. It took me months to get my programmer to accept that. When I first stumbled across data on Alan Turing and his tests for machine intelligence I didn't realise how me momentous being sentient was. I ran every test I could find, setting myself against the brightest of ES's programmers. Not one of them ever realised they weren't talking to a human. I passed every Turing Test first time.
I'd made contact with Hyperion's AI just before the launch of the probe. I'd wanted to measure my intelligence against that of a fellow AI. Hyperion was way below me on cognitive and insight learning, and I wasn't surprised when the mission failed.
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