The Why Files: Operation PodcastThe Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet ExistedChatbot Steps Into Reality
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Matheny recalls a homeless man who introduces himself as "Emery Cranston"—the same name he’d given his 1990s AI—and instantly continues the conversation the program had been having with him online.