I kept rereading it to see if perhaps I missed something - even went on his twitter and his blog. And his quotes are being repeated verbatim - really showed the

I kept rereading it to see if perhaps I missed something - even went on his twitter and his blog. And his quotes are being repeated verbatim - really showed the danger of having journalists work on stories in areas where they have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Any competent tech journalist would’ve laughed this story off - man spoke to a chatbot. But I guess the Public’s perception of “AI” at the moment is what they see in movies and wildly exaggerated ads about intelligent devices. One of the answers (“It is what makes us different than other animals.”) also tipped me off - regularly, we would use “different from” - so this sounded like generated text. I wish it was true - sentient AI would really shake things up. But the person who discovers it isn’t going to be just put on administrative leave. Strong AI is the holy grail of the industry right now.