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Guy Noir: What about you?

Robot: Did you ever think maybe there are places I'd like to go?

Guy Noir: Excuse me?

Robot: Why is it always up to you?

Guy Noir: I'm not talking to you right now, okay?

Robot: I have 256 gigabytes of RAM and I will outlive you by several hundred years.

Guy Noir: Sure. In a landfill, maybe.

Robot: Okay, that's it. Auto-shutdown. I'm out of here. Shutting down.

Guy Noir: Thanks. See you later. Oh -- I never got your name.

Robot (fading): Sarah . . .

Guy Noir: Bye, Sarah.

Is this the most dysfunctional human-machine relationship since Microsoft thought "C-colon-backslash" was intuitively obvious? What is the problem? Why haven't we fixed it, when will we fix it, or is it a much harder problem than that?

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