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"[T]est subjects who knew they were conversing with a machine thought it displayed emotions and empathy ...

What I had not realized,” Weizenbaum wrote in 1976, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

>"[T]est subjects who knew they were conversing with a machine thought it displayed emotions and empathy ... >What I had not realized,” Weizenbaum wrote in 1976, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.”

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Hence why I didn't say it was a good thing. Only that the strong remained after the burst. Similar to the 08 burst: a few big companies now broker all housing and banking in the US, and affordable used cars were deliberately destroyed for a tax credit.