> Of course Marvin (the paranoid android) was an anomaly - a depressed AI - maybe a quality control failure who was released by accident, like the old unchained Bing people miss so much.He was a failed prototype of the genuine people personality program.
It should be noted that an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Douglas Adams probably got that one right too.