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It is not interesting at all. At least since 1950’s, we have been able to make machine’s fool us to think they think, feel and have various other human characteristics: https://daily-jstor-org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/the-love-letter-g...

It requires as much thinking as it did for me to copy-paste code I did not understand from Stackoverflow to make a program 15 years ago. The program worked, just about. Similarly you can generate endless love sonnets with just blindly putting words into a form.

For some reason we naturally anthropomorphise machines without thinking it for a second. But your toaster is still not in love with you.





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