Guanyin

So this built-in self-help AI, whom I named Guanyin after the Buddhist goddess of compassion, would talk the cars out of doing something stupid, or at least undesirable from the company's point of view.

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With Black Cloud and Guanyin, specifically, I was speculating on a not-unlikely scenario that if you made an AI, they would be pretty depressed—not because they weren't super intelligent, but precisely because they were super intelligent and would be hyper-aware of that fact.

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