Ben CohenNov 13

FORD: They make a big thing out of the ship’s cybernetics. “A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.”

ARTHUR: GPP? What’s that?

FORD: Er ………. It says Genuine People Personalities.

ARTHUR: Sounds ghastly.

F/X DOOR HUMS OPEN WITH A SORT OF OPTIMISTIC SOUND

MARVIN: It is.

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@airspeedswift

Sounds very "Stepford Wives" to me, and we know how that turned out...

Personality should not be something artificially picked, it loses its communication value.

https://alanmcdonley.blogspot.com/2014/09/i-sense-therefore-i-feel-moody-behavior.html

I Sense, Therefore I Feel Moody (Behavior Management in Robots)

(repub - original site went under.) I Sense, Therefore I Feel Moody June 30, 1999 Alan McDonley In "A Model for Mood-Based Robot Behav...

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@cyclical_obsessive Very exactly this. The tech bros just want a "build your own" manic pixie dream girl.