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Had to put this down for a bit. It's a very good book. The story hits a LITTTTTTLE too close to home in the opening scenes. That combined with the opening tension and its a bit much for where I'm at right now. That said, I want to continue this book and will pick it back up in the new year. (note: The tension isn't anything major, it's just tension. A good hook. I'm at a place where I cant really deal with any tension at all, lol! So after the holidays, I'll try again and get past the opening chapters.)

@BrambleBearWhuffling@sunny.garden - A little, yes. I'm familiar but by no means an expert. Several robots utilize machine learning and are automated. Others use "solving algorithms" that are tuned to their task. The first thing that comes to mind are automated maze-solving robots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

Other robots use machine learning for movement.

AI right now can mean many different things. Things such as Language Learning Models (which are like text complete algorithms on steroids) help them appear to be intelligent - but they don't "know" what they're saying... per se. Instead, they string another word to the end of their current word based on statistical probability based on what texts they have consumed. Here are some examples of both of those: www.techopedia.com/most-advanced-ai-powered-robots

But nothing sentient or intelligent (in the sense of creating discovering things outside of their data set) hasn't really been done yet.

@BrambleBearWhuffling@sunny.garden @annaleen@wandering.shop - They don't really get into the how. But they do differentiate between non-thinking mechanics, thinking robots / devices that aren't sentient, and full blown human-equivalent embodied intelligences (or HEEI).