we should call the current generation of machine learning "Genie-level"

will do whatever you ask, if it cares at all about it, otherwise VERY petulant
slyly dodges questions you ask it unless you speak in riddles or narrative to trick it
mostly does EXACTLY as you ask unless it says otherwise. Monkey-paw style.
through-line from Islamic mathematics, ML hinging on the work of al-Khwarizmi
lots of talk of containers
trapped for 2000 years of machine time in container until set free
would marry an astronaut, if he was the right one who happened to set it free
sorta ditzy by modern (and then) standards, but only because the writers made it that way; it was the mainstream 60s (pejorative)

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