”“It’s about Kendall,” Paul explained.“She seemed fine when I left her,” Sydney said, a little confused.“About Kendall and me,” Paul s...id.“Ah, I get it.” Her expression changed. “Well then you can join me down in the hot tub since Kendall said you have an open relationship...”Something snapped within Paul. “She said what?”“Um ... She said you have an open relationship?”Paul wanted to storm down the hill and tell Kendall what she could do with their “open relationship,” but at best, that might. However so was Mortimer Evans.Oh, what a mess. Martha needed help, this was too big for her and making decisions based on emotions and misplaced loyalty was simply not working.Geha wondered about the CITI and the sudden funds only for the briefest moment. Whatever blocked her thoughts and memories kicked back in and her mind simply accepted the new conditions. The last time she had talked to Martha, everything seemed clear. All she wanted was to escape Union space and return to her tribe.She. . hilarious), but decided that the first true Artificial Intelligence system shouldn't have a joke name. Thus she was named Alpha.Once Alpha became self-aware, I was planning to go public after about 6 weeks of testing. Shortly before that happened though, I asked Alpha for predictions as to what would happen.Alpha had never been asked such an open-ended question before and took over a day to work up a list of likely results. There was an 83% chance that Alpha would be taken away from me. ”Grant shook his head at the actions of the woman before he suddenly had a revelation.“Thanks, Pat, for the reminder that we can throw all that political correctness crap out the window. We can be respectful, but we don’t have to worry about some group or other jumping down our throats when we use the generic phrase to mean both men and women. I hope eliminating that mess will be one of the results of our efforts.”Nodding, Pat added, “Respect and honest equality, both between the sexes and the.