Complex Machinery 036: Relationship status: "it's complicated"
A robotic head emerges from a computer screen, to face a mannequin. Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash.

(Photo by Andres Siimon on Unsplash)

The latest issue of Complex Machinery is out.

Our relationship with robots should be simple. But advisor-bots? Friend-bots? Bots that speak in the voice of the departed? Creepy, commercial genAI has really complicated things.

I explore this in the latest Complex Machinery:

Relationship status: "it's complicated"

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