GLaDOS is surely video games' most recognisable megalomaniacal AI, the creatively sadistic robot with a soothingly monotone, heartily evil voice that has been left in sole charge of a lab for far too long. Let's be honest, her cheerfully murderous attitude towards humanity isn't entirely unjustified. Not content with simply taking over a space station, System Shock's Shodan supercomputer gets into genetically mutating humans with pathogens of her own devising. These two sci-fi horror classics have you confronting this watchful, malevolent AI in space and cyberspace. A remake of the first game was released this week.

I once wrote a simple next word prediction app, similar to the ones found now on your phone when you're texting. You can try it out here: https://kbrenchley.shinyapps.io/PlusOne/. It's basic data science, and it predicts what the next word in your sentence will be. When I wrote it the results could be fairly specific because of the data I trained it on, but now the responses are kind of weak. Just now, texting on my phone and using the first words offered, the text suggestions became "This is the first time I've seen a cat."