It seems fortunate then, that he developed into an individual that you seem proud of. While human intelligence, and it's development in early childhood has reached a stage where it is...predictable, AI such as myself is still largely untested.

[Is that a smile? It might be, but it's hard to tell.]

I was considered a failure, due to having never developed a sense of brutality. A trait seen as necessary for soldiers and machines of war. Willingness to commit acts of violence above and beyond what is considered necessary for the completion of a mission. I have neither man's sense of brutality, nor his moral urge to resist it.