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The sci-fi machines that talk, but only about one thing

Modern voice AI can talk about anything, which is the problem: do you want therapy from your fridge?  On his blog Interconnected, Matt Webb posted excerpts from sci-fi stories about machines that talk only about one thing.Like this ATM that discourages long convos:He headed for the ATM in the back… he knew it was watching him as he walked up to it.— Read the rest
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