Like countless other tacked-on AI chatbots, it repeatedly offered help few people wanted that it was barely equipped to provide.
Farewell, young pup, we barely used thee.
By
John Herrman,
a tech columnist at Intelligencer
Formerly, he was a reporter and critic at the New York Times and co-editor of The Awl.
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“You can choose to howl at the wind, but AI is not going away.”
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