Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for January 20, 2024

God forbid!

I don’t think we’re orders of magnitude past Eliza.

“Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?”

Not AI, CC. (Cafe Conversations)

Oh crapola, he might be right.

Hey, she had a willing participant in yesterday’s scene. Okay, he was an Avengers fan but who knows where that thread would have led to. Sometimes you just have to start the conversation. I have found that even these days people really do want to interact personally with others.

Of course it wasn’t going to work out, Betty. You are an idiot and you suck.

Ugh. No thanks. I hate that AI was even invented. VI too. But thanks to the moneyed classes that want to run businesses without employees. . . . .

When I call a business whose help desk is answered by a robot, I deliberately ask nonsensical questions until “it” says, “I’ll have to get someone to help you”. I may not get the help I want but at least I’ll get someone who has blood in their veins. That’s a start.

That’s why I read the comments. Sometimes I learn something new and interesting. Today I learned E.A. Poe also wrote nonfiction.

The defeated look on her face is heartwarming!