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Alexa, What Is There to Know about Love?
Brian Bilston
Alexa, what is there to know about love?
What is there to know about love?
A glove is a garment that covers the hand
for protection from the cold or dirt and –
5
Alexa, how does a human heart work?
How does a human heart work?
Blood is first received in the right atrium via
two veins, the vena cava superior and inferior –
10
Alexa, where do we go to when we die?
Where do we go to when we die?
Activating Google Maps. Completed activation.
Would you like to start from your current location?
15
Alexa, what does it mean to be alone?
What does it mean to be alone?
It is the silence left by words unsaid,
the cold expanse of half a bed.
20 It is the endless stretching of the hours,
the needless tending of plastic flowers.
It is an echo unanswered in a cave,
the fateful ping of the microwave.
It is the fraying of a worn shirt cuff,
25 and the howl – Stop, Alexa. That’s enough.
Available on: https://brianbilston.com/2018/07/23/alexa-what-is-there-toknow-about-love/. Accessed on February 24th, 2025.
At the end of the text, the author interrupts Alexa because
the answer is too technical and not what the author wants.
it’s malfunctioning as she gives lots of surplus information.
the emotional weight of the response becomes unbearable.
of the disagreement between the speaker and the definition provided by the machine.
Rompendo com o padrão de uma resposta baseada em dados, Alexa dá ao eu lírico uma resposta profunda e emocional ao seu questionamento, que não consegue suportar a densidade da resposta e pede que Alexa pare.
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