Why AI Needs a Genome - Issue 108: Change

It's Monday morning of some week in 2050 and you're shuffling into your kitchen, drawn by the smell of fresh coffee C-3PO has brewed while he unloaded the dishwasher. "Here you go, Han Solo, I used the new flavor you bought yesterday," C-3PO tells you as he hands you the cup. C-3PO arrived barely a month ago and already has developed a wonderful sense of humor and even some snark. He isn't the real C-3PO, of course--you just named him that because you are a vintage movie buff--but he's the latest NeuroCyber model that comes closest to how people think, talk, and acquire knowledge. He's no match to the original C-3PO's fluency in 6 million forms of communication, but he's got full linguistic mastery and can learn from humans like humans do--from observation and imitation, whether it's using sarcasm or sticking dishes into slots. Unlike the early models of such assistants like Siri or Alexa who could recognize commands and act upon them, NeuroCybers can evolve into intuitive assistants and companions.