![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it any wonder it was written by a newlywed? The promise and peril of traveling through life with another human being are at the heart of Madeleine George’s time-jumping technological comedy, “ The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence,” whose world-premiere production is in previews at Playwrights Horizons. No matter how badly they’re needed, people have an unsettling tendency to leave forever, or die, and there’s no tech squad in the world that can restore them. Given the messiness of human interactions, a machine like that might seem a safer alternative to a flesh-and-blood person. It’s the stuff of science-fiction fantasy, but also of high-tech reality: a personal helper robot with the power to process language and the capacity to learn over time, its responses ever more tailored to the needs of its master. ![]()
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