[voice]
Oh, I'm not saying it can't have a personality. I liked Sentience and it certainly beats being flat and mechanical like Conscenti. It's still only a program though, we have to keep in mind it's only a machine.
Veridical is still here to answer to us, the snark only makes things worse. We get enough of that from each other, don't you think?
[Of course Oz is talking to a guy who will be unable to see a droid or AI as anything more than a machine.]