> We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. We literally are not, and we’d do well to stop us

> We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. We literally are not, and we’d do well to stop using such hyperbole. The 1980s fantasy was of speaking to a machine which you could trust to be correct with a high degree of confidence. No one was wishing they could talk to a wet sock that’ll confidently give you falsehoods and when confronted (even if they were right) will bow down and always respond with “you’re absolutely right”.