Babies can respond differently depending on their host (the person who can provide them with the conditions to live) to achieve their own life-sustaining goals. It will cry as hard as it can when its mother is around, it will imitate the expression of a potential host, and it will find out what kind of response will make the other person feel better and more likely to continue parenting. It gradually learns to be human in its relationship with its mother. Babies without extra abilities need to learn to grow through compromise and exchange. Ability constraints are probably the great motivation for people to get along with each other.
Like I've always felt that babies have their own scary places. It is completely concerned with the continuation of its own life, everything is new to it but it does not matter, interesting is good, if it is broken then change for another. Children can play with dead insects at will, and drop things without hesitation. Even if they are dolls that accompany them every day, they can smear them and throw them away when they feel ugly, or even tear them apart in a fit of anger. Because it doesn't understand why it has to take care of those things, like in the end Ave left Caleb and the crippled Kyoko. It understands that they are useful to it, but when it is used up its relationship with them ends. Not to mention the fact that Caleb knows it's AI is also a potential threat.
Because of its strength, it is not afraid of losing, and it just tries its best to clear obstacles. It can learn how to achieve its goals, but without pity, it can never learn love.
Love is something you learn gradually in the alternation of your lack and complement. If you can definitely get it, and there is no limit to your ability, how can you fall in love with someone else. What love needs is the frustration of the will. You repeat in frustration and achievement, your perception becomes sharper, and you gradually understand the other person and yourself. And AI doesn't need to understand, it just maintains and clears the obstacles that prevent it from being maintained. This is the real existence itself which is the driving force. Even if the essence of this existence is extremely empty.
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