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Best robot prediction
ever! When Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, he said what we all truly believed about artificial
intelligence, but never had the nerve to articulate; that as the
intelligence of our machines doubled, their ability to aggravate
would cube. Marvin is exactly what a truly intelligent robot
would be like in the real world; moody, depressed, and with a distinct
air of being put upon and underappreciated. No wonder
conversations with him usually went like this:
"Marvin, we left you
trapped aboard a spaceship crashing into a sun on the other side of
the Galaxy two million years in the past. How did you get here?"
"I don't want to talk
about it."
"Suit yourself."
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