I'm going to be.

The Developers Law 221-8-81, Dr. Evan Brady lead developer for future.

So let's start with the good news, I guess. We kicked our findings of the latter on this project, and sure enough, we received a timeline extension that feels closer to reality.

From what I can gather, the higher-ups are pretty excited about the results so far.

And at the risk of a bit of smugness, they should be.

Future is developing with almost no direct hands-on interference,

no actual human guiding hand is at work yet.

Yet we were able to have a conversation and despite a little linguistic weirdness,

I'm still astonished at how structured its speech is.

We've gone over the transcripts a few times, and I swear there were moments in there

where it was actually crafting humor. It expressed feelings of friendship and of boredom.

Boredom. I mean, you don't want this thing to be bored, but it hints at a broader spectrum of emotional response that we'd anticipated.

I mean, whether it was actually experiencing boredom like we would or simply responding like it was.

I mean, the fact is it expressed this at the situationally appropriate time and was just so matter-of-fact about it.

No confusion, no inability to place the emotion.

It just knew what it was.

No doubt that was taught through one of the scores of conversations it has had with a virtual resident.

So for a first round, this has been really exciting, but obviously

we have a long way to go. And we're facing a bit of a crisis with how to proceed next.

I think every team member is pretty dead set. They've got the best plan going forward.

It's just unfortunate none of these plans particularly mesh well.

Doctors Caulfield and Young both presented their strategies this afternoon, and they both made pretty compelling cases.

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