- …On reflection, Star Trek was prescient, too, in how you have to talk to the computer like a person. Who often has the wrong answer. And how whenever it tells you it’s not allowed to do something—which is also common—everyone knows an extremely trivial trick to make it do that thing anyway.
- Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
