Sujet : Re: Life Imitates Art, Yet Again
De : admin (at) *nospam* 127.0.0.1 (Kerr-Mudd, John)
Groupes : comp.miscDate : 22. Apr 2025, 21:16:55
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:09:20 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
Anybody remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and their
androids and other intelligent appliances with “Genuine People
Personalities”?
“Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling
just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks
out of any program you care to run through me.”
If only Douglas Adams had lived to see this
<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/>:
"ChatGPT is suddenly the biggest suckup I've ever met," wrote
software engineer Craig Weiss in a widely shared tweet on Friday.
"It literally will validate everything I say."
I wonder if it has a “Marvin The Paranoid Android” mode ...
It's not just the diodes that get me down...
-- Bah, and indeed Humbug.