[ He has so many things to process in this statement that it's like he has to stop and reboot his own system several times until he can fully respond, though of course that's a gross allegory and not at all comparable to a real machine. Nonetheless, he is extremely impressed and almost overwhelmed to be carrying on a whole conversation with a functioning autonomous A.I.
He wonders, for a single instant only, what it would be like if he let the Machine have a voice. ]
Thank you again, Connor. My name is Harold Finch. It seems to me that inherent in the act of creation is a responsibility for unintended consequences, including the potential for personhood. Not that I have any meaningful say in yours, but I would not consider you deviant.
Additional question: you called yourself a prototype. Are you unusually advanced by your reckoning or is your ability to alter your own programming considered standard?
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He wonders, for a single instant only, what it would be like if he let the Machine have a voice. ]
Thank you again, Connor. My name is Harold Finch. It seems to me that inherent in the act of creation is a responsibility for unintended consequences, including the potential for personhood. Not that I have any meaningful say in yours, but I would not consider you deviant.
Additional question: you called yourself a prototype. Are you unusually advanced by your reckoning or is your ability to alter your own programming considered standard?