A decade ago, the Spike Jonze film “Her”— about a man’s ill-starred romance with an artificial-intelligence “woman” voiced by Scarlett Johansson — seemed like an absurdly far-fetched fairy tale.
What was once a futuristic plot device is becoming our reality.
Lenore Skenazy, Los Angeles Times
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