"Who was it who first said, "I don't know what I think until I see what I write"? Versions of this statement have been attributed to writers as various as Joan Didion, William Faulkner, Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor. Google's robot doesn't know who actually said it, but almost anybody who writes, whatever they write, will tell you it's true.
In "I, Robot," the 2004 film loosely inspired by Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi novel of the same name, one robot is unlike all the others of its model. It has feelings. It learns to recognize human nuance, to solve problems with human creativity. And with those attributes comes the questions inevitably raised by being human. Twenty-six minutes into the film, the robot asks, plaintively, "What am I?" This is a question writers ask every day. I suspect everyone else does, too..."
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