"...I want it to actually read and understand the text..."

Many do. Unfortunately, AI is just a sorting mechanism, like a sequence of scales under a conveyor belt that sorts bolts by weight. It's much more complex than that, but that's all it is. It weights text strings according to it's training data. It doesn't understand anything. It simply applies the algorithms programmed into it to the prompt it is given to string together a reply based on it's training data.

It does not understand what 2+2 means. It returns the most likely text string from it's training data '=4'.

I wanted to discuss with you the difference between machines and conscious beings. Our tools, like Hive, are never perfect. As a result of various shortcomings Hive allows automated votes. This renders machines capable of voting equal to conscious human beings, or rather degrades conscious human beings to the level of toasters. Human beings have rights. They are inherent to them, an inalienable feature of their being. When reduced to the level of toasters those human beings are essentially stripped of their humanity, that sacred consciousness no mere toaster can ever share.

An AI device has already been granted citizenship by the KSA, Sophia, a talking AI robot. While she doesn't appear particularly dangerous today, her posterity will be. Granted human rights they cannot possess, but only operate the levers of governance per their programming, AI will eventually enable their programmers to subvert democratic elections by delivering their ability to manipulate levers in voting booths per the desires of their owners, which will render sovereign people to subjugation.

I would like to hear your thoughts on this incipient existential threat we face.

Thanks!