Remember when we programmed "conversational robots" (like Siri or Alexa) in a way that we could actually control exactly what is being parsed, understood, and output?
When we could manually decide that if the user asks for the weather, the device is going to consult a weather data API as an actual real vetted information source?
When we programmed them to be *useful* for *tasks* and *information retrieval*, rather than being amazed that they're "talking" in a *convincing* manner?
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2025-03-31 15:37:38
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