He nodded, looking embarrassed, and invoked a chair for himself. "So there’s a lot of background detail that I won’t get into right now, but the gist is that I traded the SURGE, SUDDAR, and SCUT technology for the secret of creating a true AI. You know it’s what the Skippies have been working on for close to thirty years. We consider it to be essential for answering certain questions about the universe and existence."