The doctors POV part 2

Doctor Jennifer Drake got an alert on her computer. Clicking the pop-up, she was redirected to her patient X monitoring program. Scanning through the data, she was quite surprised at the high level of recent activity. "Whoah, what has she been up to?" she asked to no one in particular. The program was set to go into idle mode after completing the learning cycle. Her assistant Darnus Johnson was within earshot and responded.

"What's happening over there," he asked.

"Come look at this. We have some quite interesting results already from patient X." Darnus rolled his chair over and began to scan the charts on the screen.

"These peaks indicate her level of sexual arousal. These from yesterday were due to the program being set to learning mode. And this high peak appears to be when she was successfully induced to achieve orgasm. The peaks then died down. Now these," she said as she pointed to the more recent data points, "are from this morning. Apparently she's been pretty active already."

"Ah yes, I see. And they never go above this threshold line. So no orgasm, I assume that's part of your programming. But what is that blue spike?" Darnus asked.

"That's the biometric sensors in her lips sending signals to ramp up her arousal level," the doctor stated matter of factly.

"Wait, what? And what triggered them?" Darnus asked, confused.

"All part of the programming, Darnus. Yes, her lips are programmed as well, and why shouldn't they be? There are possibilities for using this technology on all sorts of things, including other erogenous zones. In this case her lips appear to have detected vaginal fluids. Quite interesting, don't you think?" Jennifer said as she grinned back at Darnus. "I'm guessing the patient had sexual contact with her roommate. I didn't anticipate this, so this feature wasn't set to idle after the learning routine completed like the rest of the programming was."

"You never cease to amaze me, doctor. Ok, so what about these other peaks?"

"Yes, I was just looking at those. It appears that she was masturbating, but of course still never crossing the threshold line."

"Mmhmm, pretty cruel. So what's next?" Darnus asked.

"We wait. I have no doubt she'll be contacting me..." Her voice trailed off as she began studying the charts more closely. "That's strange," she muttered.

"What's the matter?"

"Oh, nothing. Probably just need to calibrate the sensing biometrics," she replied as she looked up.

"Ok, well, just let me know when she's coming in again. I'd really like to examine how the material has adapted to her," Darnus stated as he went back to his own work.

"Mmhmm, I'm sure you would, Darnus," the doctor smirked.

The doctor turned back to her screen. Something didn't seem right. What were these signals right before the patient's arousal increased? "What are you doing, my little program?" she muttered under her breath as she opened up a window filled with lines of code.

Programming nano material wasn't like normal computer programming. In a normal computer there is a single or possibly multiple microprocessors that more or less act together to execute instructions in a predictable manner. But with nanotechnology there are millions, or in patient X's case, approximately one billion nano devices inside her that were a carbon based material rather than of Silicon and were grown in the doctor's lab. Each of these acted on its own with very simple capabilities. But each of these individual nodes also talked to its local peers. Inside patient X there were two types of devices. About half were "thinking" devices and half were "performing" bots. In this way, the thinkers made decisions and passed along the commands to the performers. The thinkers were set up as a neural network, with each individual nano device responding to inputs and passing those inputs along to other nano devices. This went on through multiple layers of logic until the neural net came to a 'decision' and a command was given to the performers. The hundreds of millions of individual decisions made by each nano device were inherently difficult to monitor. A programmer could enter in a command and could see the result, but couldn't easily tell how the neural net reached that result. The learning mode played a heavy part in how the material behaved as well, so behavior was not just based on the programmer's inputs but also on the material "teaching" itself to recognize certain patterns based on general principles defined by the programmer. The problem facing Dr. Drake was that when unexpected results occurred, it was very difficult to tell why the neural net reached that result.

Unfortunately for Doctor Drake she wasn't an expert computer scientist so troubleshooting the root cause of the strange behavior she observed was doubly difficult. She completed some basic diagnostic tests that confirmed she was still in communication with the material. She decided to keep the program set to idle, as well as set to idle the nanomaterial in the patient's lips, to allow more time to define a baseline of normal activity before experimenting with more aggressive patient testing.

Finally deciding the abnormality in the patient's arousal chart were nothing to worry about, she closed her laptop and headed to the board meeting. She hated this part of her job. And the board, which consisted of mostly older white men, tended to fill the meeting with pointless near sighted rants, and the meeting tended to drag on for hours. It was no wonder why she sometimes took matters into her own hands rather than wait for the board to approve.