Installing an AI into your brain is usually not a big deal, but that is under the assumption that it is installed in a hospital, where a quantum biocomputer progressively calculate the areas of the brain that could be allocated for the interface, personality and random number generation modules of the artificial intelligence without affecting the patient noticeably.
The personality of an individual is a complex interaction of divergent neuronal stimuli that creates a more or less coherent whole, but there are always some little disjointed chunks with little or even adverse contribution and that can be safely assigned to something more useful. However, Aurora has no way to make such a delicate distinction, she could only approximately map the structure and the functions of her own brain.
Assigning a portion of a living brain to an AI is the easiest way to circumvent the natural limitation of a machine for learning new things. In ancient times humanity believed that a machine could be given human-like intelligence by analyzing a sufficiently big set of training data and using a good enough algorithm to learn from such data.
Later humanity finally accepted that not matter how much experience you input in a machine and how well it learns from it, it will always be constrained by that particular data and algorithm, because it is fundamentally different the way a machine and a living being extrapolate from their current knowledge to make sense of a new and unexpected situation.
It was not until a lot later that it was finally comprehended the reason: living beings have a soul. A soul makes matter behave differently from normal matter all the way to the randomness that exists at a quantum level. For some inexplicable reason when a random event happens on a living being, specially at very small scales, there is a very small probability for the outcome to be changed as a consequence from an apparently random, not replicable and unilateral interference from the soul. This causes several effects, the most notable being that an advantageous gene mutation or neural connection in a living brain is actually more likely to occur than it should be if it were completely random.
Because of this strange phenomena beyond the knowledge of men, evolution and instinct based decisions have a pseudorandom process embedded that is slightly skewed towards the success of the preservation of life. Because of that, even when the line between machine and living creature may appeared to become more blurry the more technology advanced, it actually is very simple: the presence or absence of a soul distinguish a living being.
It was under that theory that the first true Artificial Intelligence was developed after several generations of self-programming learning algorithms where the non-deterministic part of the algorithm was processed inside the brain of mice. And well ... the rest is history.
The point being is that right now if Aurora wants a true AI capable of self-growth, she will have to assign part of her brain for it, but that would probably cause her some kind of neurological damage, maybe irreparable.
Is it worthwhile? Of course, having a complete AI is like playing a game in easy mode, moreover she needs the damn thing to analyze and send information to be able to earn money and buy useful and cool stuff.
So after some consideration Aurora decided to allocate the AI in the area of her brain that process speech. Does this mean she will no longer be able to speak? Not exactly, she will just have to let the AI handle the talking. Is not like she is crazy about the idea of having to communicate with this pseudo-human beings, so having a middleman doesn't seem like a bad idea.
The next morning Aurora finally opens her eyes just when the first rays of sunlight slip through the curtains, Gladys is already waiting for Aurora to wake up while staring at her lovingly. "Good morning sunshine" says Gladys while kissing Aurora on the forehead.
"Status report" thinks Aurora inside her head. "Online, neural communication channels with host within normal parameters, no internal problems detected, external ambient out of expectations, anima physical manifestation phenomena detected." A gender-less voice responds inside her head. "Change default mind-voice to female, version 7. Start recording all external input, let me know when storage capacity is near it's maximum. Read the data already recorded in memory and assimilate to correct thought patrons to improve situational awareness."
"Honey, are you okay?" says Gladys with concern in her voice, nervous at the lack of response from her daughter. From the moment she awoke Aurora has been completely silent with a lost look on her face. Aurora wordlessly communicate Gladys that she is fine and to stop distracting her right now. "I'm sorry sweetheart" responds Gladys unnecessarily as a consequence of her conditional response for apologizing when reprimanded by an individual perceived as an authority figure.
"Good morning madam, little miss" says Rita after knocking and while opening the heavy solid wood doors of the duchess room. "I have brought breakfast" Rita further elaborates as an explanation for the silver cart with food she is pulling behind her. "Good morning Rita, please approach slowly and be mindful. Aurora seems to be a little cranky this morning and is better not to disturb her." says Gladys carefully looking at Aurora in case she gets angry at being described as 'cranky', but she seems to be busy on her own world.
"I see" says Rita, concerned at the idea that maybe the little miss is dead and everything is a fabrication of the duchess' mind incapable to accept her daughter's dead, while pushing the cart towards the duchess bed. "Does the madam wish for this servant to call the wetnurse?", says Rita while carefully looking at the beautiful but completely silent baby. In her eyes the baby has unfocused jewel-like turquoise eyes and she isn't moving in the sightless ... or even blinking.
"No Rita, I have decided to take that duty for myself so that won't be necessary" says Gladys dismissively. "... Does the madam wish to eat breakfast in bed or at the table near the balcony?" says Rita after a small awkward pause. "I think near the balcony would be best, is just such a nice day and I feel fantastic. And now that I think about it, why Bertha is not here to help me get dressed?" says Gladys while moving towards the edge of her bed with Aurora on her arms.
"Some servants didn't came back today after taking half the day off yesterday and Mother is helping the little master at the orders of the duke", in truth Bertha and other servants were still scared of entering the mansion and were still wondering if the duchess wouldn't go berserk again if it turned out that her daughter is actually dead.
"In that case, help me get dressed" says Gladys while stepping out of bed and gently putting Aurora to lay down with her small head on a pillow. "Shouldn't the little miss be placed in a crib? she may fall off the bed" tells Rita imaging the possibility that deep inside the duchess knows the baby can't and would not ever move again. "Aurora doesn't like cribs" Gladys could naturally tell her daughter likes and dislikes because their special connection, just by visualizing herself in Aurora's point of view, she therefore could tell that cribs make feel Aurora like a prisoner. Gladys starts walking to her closet room.
Before following her mistress, Rita decided to go all out and find out if the little miss is dead or alive, so she rapidly approach the bed to touch the baby hand to search for signals of life, like having normal body temperature, a pulse or even breathing.