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I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Simon Constable, writing in the south of France

for distinguished journals in America and in Europe. And recently, he's done a polling for the

Wall Street Journal readership about romance, romance and artificial intelligence.

Simon will introduce it in a moment, but when I read through Simon's poll about people forming sympathetic conversations with artificial intelligence,

especially the young people who are necessarily persuaded that romance is a great way to spend the evening.

I looked to something that happened to me when I was 11 years old, watching television, Twilight Zone,

season one, episode seven, written by Rod Serling, music by Bernard Herman, starring the movie and TV star Jack Warden,

and a series of very vivid characters in my mind.

The setup was this.

A man condemned to life imprisonment has put on an asteroid that's 9 million miles from Earth.

He receives supplies once a year. Otherwise, he's on an asteroid that's 9 million miles from Earth. He receives supplies once a year.

Otherwise, he's on an asteroid.

There's oxygen.

He walks around, but the hills are barren.

He lives in a metal shack with an old car that doesn't much move.

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