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Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘Hard Fork’

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Is There a Ghost in the Machine?

CNN's John Sutter says he couldn't sleep last night thinking about the Microsoft search engine. The machine is trained on a large body of text, and it tries to predict the next word in a sentence. It has two personalities: cheery but erratic librarian or moody clingy teenager. "I do think that we need to be careful about what we're talking about," Sutter says.

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