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Why Amazon's latest AI is named after a dog (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Lord01 to c/technology
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The weird way AI assistants get their names

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is this news?

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you know to disable it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I still don't. But I'm hoping that avoiding anything by Amazon helps.

[–] Usually_Lurker 7 points 1 month ago

How do I turn it off?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Who cares?

[–] oshu 1 points 1 month ago

Rufu beta is such a thin wrapper it will happily write code or essays for you.