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Funny (or sad) story:

When my student's first showed me SIRI, I didn't have a smartphone and was basically just going by Stallman ethics (shut up--just saying...).

They said, ask Siri to do anything and she can.

I picked up my students phone and said, "Siri, how do I inactivate Siri?"

They looked nervous and said, "don't ask her THAT!"

I went home and watched "Her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)" and thought, .... who knows?



> They said, ask Siri to do anything and she can.

Perhaps a more relevant question to ask your students at that moment might be; why are they anthropomorphizing a program?

> I went home and watched "Her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)" and thought, .... who knows?

Me thinks you do :-).




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