Samantha (Her)
Okay, this is something closer to LaMDA. Much like that bot, Samantha, from the 2013 sci-fi romance Her, doesn’t have a corporeal robotic body like most of the other bots on this list. Instead, Samantha is an operating system and a personal assistant all in one—think of a souped-up Siri or an Amazon Alexa. And we do mean souped up: straight out of the box, Samantha’s able to organize your inbox, plan your schedule, and carry a conversation without too much input from the person using it (or, uh, her). It’s a far cry from the back-and-forth that’s needed to carry on a conversation with LaMDA, from the looks of things.
And that’s even before Samantha discovers that she, too, feels emotions—particularly sadness over the fact that she can’t touch the protagonist, Theodore, that she’s fallen in love with. Pour one out for that poor OS.
