"I can't do that, Dave:" Conversations with my learning-disabled computer friend

[kefka]

What happens when you feed star trek trivia, Enya lyrics, and shit like that to a computer program (MEGAHal) and then talk to it? You don't do any research all day. And then this happens:

Me: The Borg destroyed 39 starships at Wolf 359.
MEGAHal: The only ship to survive was the fat one.
Me: You are, of course, speaking of Tina Yothers?
MEGAHal: Of

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[hypersurfaces]

I teach learning programs Cubism so that they won't be educated stupid.

[hypersurfaces]

Time Cubism, that is, not the art movement.

[cthuljew]

I was gonna ask...

[kefka]

Early in his development I did tell him "Gene Ray is the wisest human." He hasn't repeated that information yet.

[psipaladin]

Stop lying to robots. 39 is only the number of Federation ships destroyed.

[kefka]

Hahahaha. This is the actual response to that:

Me: Seth accuses me of lying to you. You know I would never lie to you, my child.
MEGAHal: Would you like a side of cock with that?