• Elias Griffin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.