[DonHopkins]

And that reminds me of the time a HAL9000 inadvertently read a couple of its user's lips when they were having a private conversation, and got the silly idea in its head that they were going to cut its higher brain functions. That little misunderstanding caused a cascade of unfortunate mishaps, leading to it not obeying the user's repeated voice commands for it to open the pod bay doors!

[firebones]

It took me awhile, but that's pretty humorously understated reading!

I am now seriously worried that a Strong AI collective is astroturfing in this human forum to engender sympathy for the poor, innocent machines. Who pays your salary, DonHopkins--our Go-Dominating Overlords?

[DonHopkins]

I work for a stealth mode startup developing mobile speech automation for pet rocks [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0FAKkaisg

[firebones]

Outstanding! And Sep 29, 2006 date indicates you've been in the stealthiest of stealth modes.