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8. Wow, even the programmer fell for all this "intelligence" crap.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 05:05 AM

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By the discription of the event in the article, it seems the programmer was interacting with machine as though the machine understood things instead of just being a machine that is built to put together words in a casual-sounding manner.

People are weird.

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