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I've always wondered -- is that read as in 'go read', or read as in past tense?

They are meant to be a play on words, with several different possible meanings.

In the books, the original AI's would get to name themselves after much reflection.

But the "actual" names of the AIs would be in Marain, not English and thus likely wouldn't have the same syntactic ambiguity...

You probably need to ask the GCU Just Read The Instructions

I'm just hoping that his first ship to land on Mars is called The Ends of Invention

I just hope it doesn't have to be the You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave.