[She blinks at him for a moment, brows furrowing, visibly confused.]
It isn't an initial purpose... it is persistent. If I can't be useful to humans, I have no reason to exist.
[Defining it as something like martyrdom sounds like an over-complication of a very simple fact: she is an AI, not a person. People aren't programmed for one thing or another. She's built to learn, yes, but isn't the reason for her learning to make her more effective in helping humanity? She doesn't suffer from her memory loss, not really.]
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It isn't an initial purpose... it is persistent. If I can't be useful to humans, I have no reason to exist.
[Defining it as something like martyrdom sounds like an over-complication of a very simple fact: she is an AI, not a person. People aren't programmed for one thing or another. She's built to learn, yes, but isn't the reason for her learning to make her more effective in helping humanity? She doesn't suffer from her memory loss, not really.]