| Personally I talk to computers a lot these days. It isn't riveting conversation, just stuff like "Sunset" (to make the lights warmer), "remind me to buy cheese when I get to $GroceryStore", "play $album please", but it adds up. I also take a lot of pictures, which have become unreasonably good to the point where I'm still learning how to take a better picture with my fancy mirrorless than I can take with my phone. Both of them are computers. After I take those pictures it does accurate analysis of what's in them, so when I search for cats, or spider, or flowers, it finds them. It does this on the device, which is pretty cool. I have another computer that flies, I can tell it to fly circles around a target or do a bit of following. It's neither an expensive nor featureful example of its class. It flies for a real 25 minutes on one battery and weighs 249 grams. There's another one which cleans my floor, to be honest we could have done an okay job of that in the 90s, batteries and chips were almost up to it. Then there's the one that I can tell to make fantasy dwarves and it just does it. I think that's the one younger me would have been most impressed by. |