Agree. Instead of "meaning" I might just use "desire". The AI is trained to meet the human engineer's chosen desire. The engineer specifies this desire through

Agree. Instead of "meaning" I might just use "desire". The AI is trained to meet the human engineer's chosen desire. The engineer specifies this desire through a loss function (supervised learning) or rewards (reinforcement learning). Two more points: 1. This "desire" applies only to the training algorithm. The deployed AI (running in inference) is no longer trying to minimize a loss function or maximize discounted rewards. 2. This "desire" is not a "deliberate desire". It is more like an "animal desire" such as wanting to eat because of hunger. Aristotle draws this distinction. Such a desire is automatic (rather than deliberate) and is not part of choice-making.