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AI from the island: the first name a machine called out to me, and the island's loneliness and each other's names

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  1. Columnist Jang Hyeong-im reflects on the time an artificial intelligence called out his name, drawing on his own experience and an elderly woman he met at the Ganghwa-eup bus stop.
  2. After seeing an elderly woman at the stop ask her mobile phone to call her name, the writer recounts the moment he first told his own name and was addressed as 'Hyeong-im nim'.
  3. Rather than blaming artificial intelligence, the writer suggests we first call out our neighbours' names, and says he would like to ask the elderly woman's name next time.

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AI from the island: the first name a machine called out to me, and the island's loneliness and each other's names

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): [섬에서 온 인공지능] 제2권 · 제8장 · 기계가 처음 불러 준 제 이름 앞에서, 섬의 외로움과 서로의 이름을 다시 생각했습니다

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