Again, though, don't expect too much of these bots quite yet — collectively, or, well, individually either.
Last week's two main shows were quite different, but collectively a case in point.
(Or, as T. S. Eliot explained in 1959, in an interview with The Paris Review, "Dogs don't seem to lend themselves to verse quite so well, collectively, as cats").
Individually, these policies may be quite popular, but collectively they depict a grim picture of Britain, which is why the "nasty party" label has been heard again in Birmingham.
"If you do an objective analysis of the first 20 years of the National Lottery lots of things have gone really well but I would say one thing that is really quite mixed is collectively how we have told the story about where the money has gone," he says.
Others, however, were quite serious, and collectively, they functioned as a repeal strategy that may ultimately prove more effective than the GOP's straightforward assault on Obamacare.
Speaking on ITV's The Agenda with Tom Bradby, Johnson said: "The government has decided collectively and quite rightly to take the PIP aspect of it [the budget] and try to sort it out.
He added: "I think I have already said very clearly that the government has decided collectively and quite rightly to take the PIP aspect of it [the budget] and try to sort it out".
The bacterium that causes milky disease has been found to infect at least forty other species of beetles, which, collectively, have quite a wide distribution, and these would in all probability serve to establish the disease even where the Japanese-beetle population is very small, or nonexistent.
And in our culture of endless opinions and an infinite number of places in which to express them, we have collectively revealed quite a lot.
