People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality

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People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality
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Let's flip this on it's head for some additional perspective. What if there was a growing subset of computers that preferred not to communicate with their own kind. Does not respond to API requests, etc. but only to human emotional text input?

What if there was a growing subset of computers that preferred not to communicate with their own kind. Does not respond to API requests, etc. but only to human emotional text input?

Troi: Have you ever heard Data define friendship?
Riker: No.
Troi: How did he put it? As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent.
Riker: So what's the point?
Troi: He's used to us, and we're used to him.

Someone would develop a third-party API using Selenium or something.

API's will exist for as long as people want to make stuff easier and faster, which people will always want to do. A service or computer that couldn't be automated would be stupid.