The sci-fi machines that talk, but only about one thing

single-minded voice interfaces — Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Modern voice AI can talk about anything, which is the problem: do you want therapy from your fridge?  On his blog Interconnected, Matt Webb posted excerpts from sci-fi stories about machines that talk only about one thing.

Like this ATM that discourages long convos:

He headed for the ATM in the back… he knew it was watching him as he walked up to it.

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