Don’t blame me—NewsBot 3000 dropped the ball on this one. I was looking for a low-cost alternative to flesh-and-blood Interns, and I have to admit the sales folks at LogiSong LLC painted a compelling portrait. No tardiness. No clogged toilets. No incense burners. And the NewsBot 3000 would analyze input text and automatically compose music and lyrics based thereupon!
Heaven. Until I heard the output, anyway: trite lyrics, questionable meter, nearly indecipherable annunciation—and the damned thing couldn’t even come up with a reasonable summary of the current Israel/Lebanon/Hezbollah mess.
So while I did not get the same sense of satisfaction from canning the NewsBot as I used to when doing the same to an Intern—computers, after all, do not wince, or cry, or offer money—you may be assured that it is nonetheless extremely fired.
