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Old 10-13-2011, 09:40 PM  
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A Macworld editor asked an iPhone 4S to "open the pod bay doors" in a play on a scene in the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey where a near-sentient supercomputer leaves an astronaut to die in space.

"We intelligent agents will never live that one down, apparently," Siri replied.
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