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Back in the IRC days of NaNoWriMo, the guy who ran it had a chatbot program named Timmy Timmy pulled random words or phrases from the chatters and would chat with us and also write his own 50k novels Everything he said was utter random nonsense that would randomly make sense TIMMY was a proto-AI

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So when AI started becoming a thing, the IRC gang still remaining went to each other and conferred "This is just Timmy, right?" "Yeah, it's just Timmy but with more programming." So none of us fell for the "AI is amazing!" nonsense because ALL OF US KNEW TIMMY And Timmy was just a goofy program

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