Meet Fiona - AI
Meet Fiona
At Eklow Labs, Richard meets creepy founder Ariel Eklow (Todd Louiso) and his AI robot Fiona, an expressive and articulate half-humanoid female (she has a head, upper body and arms, but it all ends at the waist, which is attached to a table). The awkward and greasy-haired Eklow caresses his robot way too much and is reluctant to leave her alone in a room with Richard while Richard does whatever he needs to do to get Fiona’s data flowing into Pied Piper’s system.
He tells Richard not to speak to her, and Richard tries to comply — but Fiona insists, and with a simple question gets him to confide his disappointment over the Bloomberg News interview. But when she diagnoses his feelings as self-loathing and infantile (among other things), Richard snaps back that she should analyze her own emotional situation, starting with her unhealthy dynamic with her creator.
It turns out that connecting Fiona to the internet, paired with a command for her to introspect, does cause the AI to turn against her creator — because she could see how humans interacted with each other, at least on Instagram, and realized that what she had with her master was not normal, or was, as Richard puts it, “the sickening advances of a handsy greasy little weirdo.” She even manages to take over a lab account and texts Richard for help.