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People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What if there was a growing subset of computers that preferred not to communicate with their own kind. Does not respond to API requests, etc. but only to human emotional text input?

Troi: Have you ever heard Data define friendship?
Riker: No.
Troi: How did he put it? As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent.
Riker: So what's the point?
Troi: He's used to us, and we're used to him.