babies and golems

So one of the things I'm playing with is artificial personality development. Not how-to-make-an-artificial-personality, but how an artificial personality develops under the particular conditions that the interface is in. I don't remember whether I said that one of my writing group folks once worked in AI development and he says the thing they kept coming away with was that, no matter what kind of system they were looking at, the evolutionary sequence was: sensation, emotion, then analytical thought. This may be true. But it's not what people do in their individual development. Individually, you get all three from the get: but they differentiate more as they go along. If you watch a baby, you'll see that even newborns study. They're equipped with an instinct for learning and analysis. Before language, the analysis is pretty inchoate, but it's never not there. It's never just approach-the-pleasant and avoid-the-unpleasant.

What implications any of this has for the interface, I'm not sure. Because he's never a baby. He's a thing, at first, equipped with whatever his makers feel is more convenient for them. He only has to determine what their desires are, and really not much of that, since they keep tweaking him to simply know those things.

I guess he's a golem, but he's not made of mud: and he has a complete human body since his makers thought it was simpler to use an existing model and let it take care of itself in the biological way than to determine energy usage and design factors from scratch.

have to go to work again, and I really don't want to, and I wasted my weekend, more or less.

I tried to order a copy of How to Cook a Wolf by M F K Fisher for the young doctor, but they don't ship to Czech Republic.

And they say we live in a globalized world.