We have watched too many-movies. To our cinema-flamed imaginations the robots of the future are silken-voiced and pliant like Scarlett Johansson in Her, or wisecracking humanoids like Star Wars’ C-3PO, or-otherwise the murderous-Transformer toys of so many Arnold Schwarzenegger films. What they are not, not in our imaginations and not on screen, are exceptionally-clever algorithms.
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