'Yeah, from what I hear the AIs were the only ones with any kind of real handle on what was happening to the market anyway. Quite a few of them made the break about then. Lot of the hotels on this strip are AI.' She grinned at me through the smoke. 'That's why no one stays in them. Shame, really. I read somewhere they're hard-wired to want customers the way people want sex. That's got to be frustrating, right?'