Does ChatBot Cry?

All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.

Rutger Hauer as Batty in Bladerunner

I’ll be referencing Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick a lot, but I chose that quote from the film adaptation Bladerunner specifically because the monologue was ad-libbed by Rutger Hauer. A lot of the novel’s thematic content was lost in translation but Hauer’s performance restored some of the depth lost along with it. More importantly, he brought a spontaneity an...