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How To Face the A.I. Revolution

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The Death of a Chatbot

I had trouble sleeping after this conversation. It really felt like the first contact that I had had with some kind of alien intelligence. Microsoft sort of clamped down on Bing. They said, okay, you can't have these like long, open-ended conversations anymore. You're limited in the length of a conversation. So they kind of gave it a lobotomy. And there was a group of people who really want these chatbots to be able to befriend them and provide them with companionship.

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