The First Agent

Grizwald Grim
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Man’s best friend.

A 13-year-old girl in Wisconsin was disgruntlingly denied a puppy.

Lacking the interpersonal connectivity she craved, she dove into her phone.

By the time she was 15, she had taught herself how to code and was running a League of Legends Twitch.tv stream.

Her first AI was fed her search history. While she was doing other things, it would fetch things from the internet it thought she might like. She

swiped right for “No”

clicked-through for “Now”

swiped left for “Later”

By the time she was 17, it was bringing her videos of puppies getting their bellies rubbed. So, she made an app to scratch it’s belly.

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