Mad Engineering

@Soyweiser I’ll apologize too, sarcasm doesn’t always translate in text.

@Soyweiser It’s a dumb, less competent psychiatrist. ELIZA might have been simplistic, but it was at least based on an actual psychology theory.

@EponymousBosh @Amoeba_Girl So they’ve reinvented ELIZA, but poorly?

@o7___o7 @istewart Kurzweil is also the guy who insists that technology will someday bring his dad back from.the dead, because…trust me, bro.

I’m not exactly confident in his predictions.

@Catoblepas I loved Randall Monroe’s explanation that you could defeat the average robot by getting up on the counter (because it can’t climb) stuffing up the sink and turning it on (because water tends to conduct the electricity in ways that beak the circuits)

@Soyweiser @swlabr Reminds me.of Nixon’s weird claim of being backed by a “silent majority.”

I’ve heard two versions of this from historians. One claims that he was deluded enough to claim that everyone actually secretly backed him and was just unwilling to actually say so for some reason.
The other said that he meant the dead, on his quest to throw more lives at a cause that has already claimed so many.

@nightsky @Architeuthis Computer programs are generally written to be basically polite for customer service purposes.

A generative text program that opened chats with “Ugh, what do you want THIS time, loser?” would likely find itself …corrected… by the parent company on short order.