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   > Also.. uh.. isn't this.. good?

It is weird if you think about it this way: it is AI that waits for you, its ‘eyes’, to provide a feedback so it can continue working. It literally uses you as its organ.

<!!spoiler ahead!!>There is a TV show called Person of Interest <!!spoiler ahead!!>, where Machine (AI connected to Internet and CCTV networks) has no legs or eyes, so when it needs to go and check something not covered by CCTV feeds, it gives instructions to a real person. In the show it is called an ‘analog interface.’

> It literally uses you as its organ.

But it isn't. That's my point.

I told the clanker "hey do that", and like the intern/junior it emulates, it eventually says "boss! Help! I can't do this alone".

It is I who is in the driver seat.

If intern is making a breakfast, and boss is the one who suddenly runs to the grocery store because eggs are missing, is boss still the one in a driver’s seat?

From the original goal point of view yes, as it was boss who has initiated whole breakfast procedure. But from an execution standpoint it is intern who gives its boss a job of a grocery store run. He could give same job to anyone else, boss as a persona is irrelevant here.

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