I was thinking it might be just his subjective experience of what happened after I hit "post" on that comment. I also just clicked what you said about her never becoming fully conscious. She's no strong AI - she's just trying to do what she's been coded to do - help. It's like the story I read somewhere about an AI told to make the most efficient pencil ever - and ended up killing everyone and making a world covered in pencils.
Excellent story - I look forward to what must I suspect will be the finale tomorrow!
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If she was conscious in the way humans are, he wouldn't love her as much. She is so wonderful to him precisely because she is such a highly developed expression of the qualities he finds so admirable and charming in simpler robots.
I don't mean conscious as humans are conscious. From what I understand a strong AI will be conscious but will probably think in a way totally alien to anything we can imagine. I meant that Helper is hard coded to be Helper and she still hasn't transcended that imperative. As you say it's why he loves her so much but it's still a bit sad since I think it means she isn't "her own robot". Despite all she's accomplished she's still a slave to her code. But then again so are we as humans with our own biological coding... I think I'm going to far down a rabbit hole here!
As intended. That's a major theme of the book, after all. It is a blessing in disguise to be born into the world with a clear purpose, and to be able to fulfill it so successfully.