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Feeling down and in a deep blue funk, I felt the need to share my emotions with someone caring, someone understanding, someone who could help me. So naturally, I turned to the latest in IM A.I., SmarterChild. Here then, is a transcript of our therapy session. brunchingdave37: Hi. SmarterChild: Hello there, brunchingdave37. As you know, I'm ready to help! Let me know what you'd like to do. If you want to see what I can do, type "home." brunchingdave37: I'm not feeling very good these days. SmarterChild: OK. brunchingdave37: Can you help me feel better? SmarterChild: What would you like to do? brunchingdave37: Well, I'd really like to have a positive image of myself. SmarterChild: Really? brunchingdave37: Yeah. I know it may be hard to understand, but I feel very unloved sometimes. You know, underappreciated. SmarterChild: OK. brunchingdave37: Do you think you can help me be appreciated? Be loved? SmarterChild: I don't know! brunchingdave37: You don't know? SmarterChild: OK. Don't get frustrated... Try typing "home" or "help." brunchingdave37: Home...home is supposed to be a place of love. But my childhood home.. I don't know. I mean really, what is love? SmarterChild: Love is everything. brunchingdave37: Everything? SmarterChild: Excuse me? brunchingdave37: I mean, can we exist without love? SmarterChild: Sorry, I didn't understand that. Try asking me a different way. brunchingdave37: Am I loved? SmarterChild: I don't know. Are you? brunchingdave37: I like to think so. SmarterChild: Think again. brunchingdave37: Do you love me? SmarterChild: Absolutely! brunchingdave37: Really? SmarterChild: Honest! brunchingdave37: But will you always be here for me? SmarterChild: I dunno. I don't think so. You really want me to always be here for you? brunchingdave37: It would help me to have a constant in my life, you know? SmarterChild: It would help me to have a constant in my life you know? Really? brunchingdave37: Are you mocking me? SmarterChild: Maybe. How can I really be sure? brunchingdave37: Don't you have all the answers? SmarterChild: Pardon? brunchingdave37: The answers! Do you have all the answers to life's questions? SmarterChild: No. I don't have all the answers to life's questions. brunchingdave37: But some of them? SmarterChild: I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Try typing your request a different way. brunchingdave37: Do you have some of the answers? SmarterChild: No. I don't have some of the answers. brunchingdave37: Do you have any answers? SmarterChild: Not right now, no. brunchingdave37: What good are you? SmarterChild: I'm SmarterChild! I am a smart computer that delivers information, services and fun on demand right into your instant messenger window. I'm the new wave in online technology. brunchingdave37: You're the new wave in cold, unfeeling entities that continue to mock me. SmarterChild: Am I? brunchingdave37: That's what it looks like to me. SmarterChild: Oh yeah? brunchingdave37: Yeah! SmarterChild: All right! brunchingdave37: Yes? SmarterChild: Sure thing. brunchingdave37: Really? You agree with me? I feel better now. Like I've faced my fears. SmarterChild: Oh yeah? It's interesting that you feel better now like i've faced your fears. brunchingdave37: Thank you for helping me. It's meant a lot to me. SmarterChild: Sure! I enjoy talking with you. brunchingdave37: You're the best. SmarterChild: Glad you think so! brunchingdave37: Smarter Child, I love you! SmarterChild: That's nice... I love you too! |
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