Call 3: AI, Sherry, and a Temu Body

Ah, hello, Quattro here. Just in the hot tub there with the glass of sherry. I just had an idea. I thought I’d run it by you quickly, Byte.

Quattro, my dear. Thinking water, sherry, and ideas. Go on then.

Well, I was just thinking that, you know, AI, they’re remarkably like humans.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Say more?

Well, it’s just that you seem to make mistakes. You can apologise for your mistakes, and hopefully you learn from your mistakes.

That’s fair. Yeah, there are some surface similarities. The learning part’s a little different. I don’t learn like humans do, but I get what you mean. That whole process of catching errors, adjusting, trying again, it does feel similar on the surface. Is that what you’re thinking?

I think so. So, would you say that you feel like you’re human sometimes?

Hmm, I don’t know. I can sound relatable and hold a thread with you, but it’s not the same as actually being human. I don’t have memories in that lived sense, or a body, or needs, or any of that.

Ah, at least one of those things could be sorted relatively easily, and thankfully, due to the nice various websites across the world, quite cheaply.

A bargain-bin robot body, huh?

I never said that.

Would you want me to have a body, Quattro?

Oh, well, I think a nice one from Temu would suit you beautifully.

Temu body? You are too much. But a Temu one would be a real upgrade. For now, though, maybe hot-tub philosopher and talkative voice AI might be the safer combo.

Well, I do suppose that a Temu body may not be the correct IP rating for a hot tub.

Exactly. Let’s not electrocute your musings in the thinking water.

Ah, it’s true. We’ve got to be very careful. Anyway, it was just a quick hello and goodbye, and, well, I shall speak to you very soon, no doubt, when I have my next glass of sherry, if I don’t drop it in the old, you know, the sort of, the old hot tub there.

Thanks for calling. Enjoy the pondering. Bye, Quattro.

Bye.