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Old Yesterday, 12:56 PM   #40
j.p.s
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I'm wondering why Amazon sees the need to bring the Nazi AI to their devices, is Alexa really that bad?
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Amazon uses the term “grok” internally to mean Goodreads on Kindle.
And probably well before an AI got that name.

The word itself was coined by Robert Heinlein in 1961 in Stranger in a Strange Land. I have no idea whether amazon is making a nod to that or it is a coincidence.
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