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Apr 2024
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Episode 643: The Price of Lies

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Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl.

Merlin’s weird, truncated contexts in Things.

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