My phone email and texting app is obsessed with kingfishers. It didn't know what they were at first, when I saw one in Fontaine de Vaucluse, and I had to teach it the word. But since then, it has found them very exciting, and wants to keep talking about them. Every time I type the word "the" in an email or a text it enthusiastically suggests that the next word I want is very likely "kingfisher". It does this so eagerly that I find it extremely endearing, and suspect it of looking up image searches of kingfishers in its spare time. It feels like part of the phone's personality. When I type a capital F and it suggests "Ficino" and I actually want "France" I just think it's being overly helpful, because I do in fact text the word "Ficino" fairly often. But that one time I was writing a sonnet at the source of the Sorgue is the only time I've ever used the word "kingfisher", and yet it lives in hope.
All of which goes to prove that you do not actually need a sentient computer to pass a Turing Test, a sufficiently anthropomorphising human will do.
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All of which goes to prove that you do not actually need a sentient computer to pass a Turing Test, a sufficiently anthropomorphising human will do.