MORE SOFIA

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Talking... About now and the future!

 No more jokes Sofia, tell us what you really think.

So far every clip I've seen, Sofia has been bestowed and largely presented in or at a human level. People's perception cannot but be affected by this.

 Sofia is not flesh and blood. That, she can never be... Notice how easy it was to assign this computer a gender identity. It's a sophisticated machine, a tool with it's bits of information stored in a cloud somewhere, while ours is stored in our heads.

 Anyhow, enjoy the video...


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