[pentaphobe]

The first AI to really blow my mind as a kid and - between that and Conway's Game of Life - no doubt responsible for the first 5 years of obsessive my all-night hacking and sneaking into university libraries to supplement lackluster CS education in high school at the time.

Person: WHY DID YOU DO THAT?

Computer: BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME TO.

^ cue adolescent nerd frothing at mouth

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Indeed, we have come a long way since then. Today, explanation in AI systems works a lot better:

  Person: WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
  Computer: [low-level fan noise]