Mary Branscombe
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Commented on Dude, you broke the future!
Tay wasn't Microsoft's first conversational chatbot; Xiaioce was - she's huge on Weibo and WeChat, she got a job presenting the weather on Chinese TV in 2015 and had a book of poetry come out this year. The difference isn't...
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Commented on On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
Bujold has a whole range of societies, from conservative to radical. Miles' home world is a colony isolated by collapse on a world where indigenous flora/fauna isn't edible and it's gone down the patriarchal aristocratic route after a limited nuclear...