Speaker for the Living

Bill Burton, the talking-point parrot machine

Listen to this:

Mr. Burton doesn't answer the questions. Regardless of what the question is, he keeps repeating the same, presumably well-rehearsed talking point over and over. In fact, it's very reminiscent of this "interview" a while ago:

I have a suspicion that Mr. Burton is not a human, or, at the very least, that he's not sentient. From the way he answers questions, it seems to me that he scans the question for keywords and forms an answer based on that keyword from his limited database of responses. 'Kinda like Alice.