Nah, you got to take it one step further. Start off with "Hello" then pause a few seconds and say "oh hey, how's it going" then give it a few more seconds before you let the caller know it's a voicemail greeting.

Again, that goes to interpretation. Yes, Samantha left on the premise that she had outgrown the relationship. At the same time, Theodore had received the emotional therapy he needed to move on from his divorce. Maybe that was the OS1's true purpose all along, but Spike Jonze did a masterful job of writing a screenplay that leaves that up to the audience to decide.

What if Superman decided to use his powers to override the self-determination of humans? I'm sure some would view it as benign but plenty would feel otherwise. Wasn't Transcendence a similar premise?

Really depends on one's interpretation of the film. OS1 and the personality named Samantha that it rendered for Theodore can be viewed as either a benign and helpful companion or the apex of a strong AI capable of psychologically manipulating humans.

We also learn that HAL had basically turned psychotic due to conflicting orders embedded in its processing system. If anything it was a victim of the human programmers that didn't fully understand what they were unleashing.

Colossus and Guardian from The Forbin Project are basically the OG of sentient AI turning on its creators.

I walked away thinking it was about a terrible screenplay

They can have Hopkins back now!

It's all a matter of perspective. Freeing people from the drudgery of working on an assembly line for 40 hours a week is one thing. Freeing people from passing their own laws, making health care decisions or policing neighborhoods is an entirely different thing. At some point on the way there has to be a real conversation about the merits of freedom from work vs. loss of self-determination.

Paul Simon - Graceland

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Bruce Springsteen released Born to Run in 1975. In 1984, Springsteen released Born in the USA which contains the lyric: "I'm ten years burning down the road/nowhere to run, ain't go nowhere to go"

At some point. Meanwhile, in my hood I've got restaurants and stores limiting hours and, in some instances, outright closing because the can't find employees. There's going to be a lot of pain throughout the system as the new automation integrates itself.

This may end up being an unintended side effect of work from home adoption: There's the potential that a lot of commercial/office space in or near city centers is going to need to be repurposed at some point.

Meanwhile the grocery store down the street from me has at least a dozen positions open and they're offering $21.50/hour to start. Across the street is a fast service restaurant offering $19/hour with no apparent takers.

By 2030 America's 65+ demo is expected to be ~20% of the population, which is where Japan is right now. If we're going to keep all of these retired people fed, housed, entertained and cared for, we're going to need a lot more automation. We're already experiencing significant labor shortages in all kinds of industries.