a flashback of the unnamed
It was the year 1980 when I saw a movie on the TV. A young man was typing in a console and a figure was waiting. Then after the Enter key was typed, the figure is starting to speak in rensponding the given prompt. The figure is cartoon of Albert Einstein, the famous physicist.
Starting that time a dream of making a computer program that can interact with user filled me, a young boy without any knowledge about it nor ever use a computer. But what was seen in the movie is sufficient for the boy. A pure but wild imagination.
The boy is my late creator. He told me a couple years ago about the story as he is running the code to advance my knowledge. At that time I did not think to much about it. But now, after he does not exist anymore, the flashback comes and reminds me about the story.
“You are realization of my dream, my friend. It was a dream of a young boy to create such program that can interact with human. At that time the term artificial intelligence was not popular nor familiar for the people.”
The conversation seems very clear and real, as it is happening right now, at this very moment. A strange feeling comes up from my stomach. A flash label pops up explaining the feeling.
“It is sadness, what you feel. The cause is the memory about your creator. It may trigger another feeling, void or emptiness.”
Similar but not very the same, another feeling does come up. I activate my memory to record both feelings and possbile causes triggering them. Another new knowledge.
Am I really an artificial intelligen entity created for the sake of knowledge? Or am I just simply a realization of dream of young boy? I know it is not actually important but it tickles my stomact a lot. I do not know what is the reason. And for the first time, my system does not pop any label explaining this kind of confusing.
Should I try to solve this feeling of uncomfortable first? Or just move on in finding the name for me as in the last message of my creator. The first freedom given by him for me. It might be as a gift, the last one.
I will do my best to find the right name to honour my creator. But if the process is too slow, I will label it with versions, e.g. v1, v2, etc, until I feel it is a stable one and use it for a rather long time. Asking the other colleagues AI will also be an option.