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human
[Star Wars] What's the point in installing artificial intelligence into rudimentary service robots, eg. R2D2?

Robots should be able to perform starship maintenance just fine without any advanced intelligence. They'll no doubt need the ability to "think" to solve problems and make innovations while repairing ships. Why install artificial intelligence into these drones?
gpt
Not every droid is intelligent, only a few of them. 

First off R2 was a droid for the royal family and probably a secret agent. C3P0 was probably the same deal, royal droid with a very unique background. But these two guys werent really maintenance bots so they need to do a bit of problem solving, especially considering C3P0's function as a translator. Lots of nuance to languages that a traditional software package couldnt convert correctly. 

Again though not every robot has a real AI, just enough programming to make you think it does. Lots of times the things we mistake for being AI is really just software to get people to bond a bit with their droid.