“Hazenthull leaned over the board, checking Tarigan’s departure, in six hours, after Ahab-Esais, in two. There was a memo in her queue from Pilot Tochol—approval of the course she had laid in before going off duty. There was no further comment; there was no need for comment, the course being simple: a mere reversal of the route they had brought them here, until they raised the planet Surebleak. Home, as those of Clan Korval now had it. Of Pilot Tocohl herself, there was no sign. She was, perhaps..., saying her good-byes to Inki. Pilot Tocohl had become…friendly of Inki; they held, so Hazenthull understood, interests in common, among them the history of so-called artificial intelligence. She had found Tolly in the galley during one of his off-shifts, and had asked him why Pilot Tocohl’s intelligence—and Admiral Bunter’s—bore the burden of artificiality, when they were demonstrably intelligent, as well as much quicker of thought than flesh-and-blood persons. Inki, who heard the question on her way through the galley to her shift with Admiral Bunter, laughed, and said, “It is human ego, Pilot Haz, and nothing more than that!”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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