What a 1966 chatbot and its horrified inventor can tell us about the voice in your pocket This week Ben Patterson, a senior writer at PCWorld, spent a long and comfortable afternoon talking to Sesame's new voice assistant, and came away unsettled in a way he couldn't quite name. The app — from a startup … Continue reading ELIZA Learned to Breathe
Category: essays
What Sufficient Explanations Hide
There's a moment, watching a documentary about a couple whose communication register is foreign to your own, when you reach for the obvious explanation. They talk a lot about feelings. They narrate their interior lives — what was the big moment of your day? — in a way nothing like the terse, decisive exchanges that … Continue reading What Sufficient Explanations Hide
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