We exchanged small talk about the electric response to Adriana’s book. She was properly famous now.The New York Timeshad interviewed her. The article featured a lengthy description of the chatbot she was working on. Trained on a vast quantity of data, it would one day be capable of respon...
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Similarly, I am frustrated by my own propensity to feed big tech companies with my data, only to complain when it is spat back out at me in the form of uncannily appropriate advertisements for electric pianos, nipple cream and furniture I can’t afford. If automation was on the march ...