Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

They gave him notes on his outfits and reassurance before a big talk, and they shared made-up gossip about each other.

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0:00.0	I went to the best party on Saturday.
0:03.0	Yeah, tell me about it.
0:04.0	This was a party at the Stud, a sort of famous old Gaybar in the city that recently reopened.
0:11.0	I think you'd love it.
0:12.0	The name of this party was whatever and I'll tell you why I went
0:15.8	when I saw the post on Instagram they announced that from 9 to 10 p.m. they would be having sad hour
0:21.6	where there would be a mime performing.
0:24.0	And so I got there at 930 to make sure I could see the sad mime.
0:27.6	And indeed, the mime was performing when I arrived to Beethoven's
0:31.7	Moonlight Sonata,
0:32.6	which was playing at club volume.
0:34.4	Wow.
0:35.3	Why was the mime said?
0:36.2	Was he stuck in a glass box?
0:38.0	It was a she, first of all.
0:39.8	And while I don't believe she was trapped in a literal glass box,
0:43.2	she did a great job of conveying that there was some kind of enclosure
0:47.1	around her.
0:47.9	But that was just the appetizer, Kevin,
0:50.2	because at 10 PM out came in every gender people who write code.
0:55.2	Software engineers came out and they were in their underwear.
0:58.0	And they walked out and they stood on pedestals and they coded live for two hours while people played actual club music.
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