Hugh grinned. "Okay, let’s say you’ve programmed an AMI to guide some wheeled vehicles from one point to another on a large flat surface. It can handle that. But now, let’s say the vehicles are really on a spherical surface, like Earth. So the coordinates won’t work out cleanly, and the vehicle will always arrive a little off the expected destination. The AMI will never adjust its algorithms unless it’s ordered to. It’ll never wonder why it’s always wrong. You could program the AMI to be self-correcting, and once it had figured out that spherical geometry worked better than plane geometry, it would use the new formulae. But it would never wonder why. It would never generalize from that to wonder about gravity, or astronomy, or anything. A real intelligence would have a WTF moment and start trying to figure out what was going on."