Phone quietly learns to say 'bless you' to sneezes
dfinke · x · 2026-08-22
The author's phone automatically said "bless you" when they sneezed. This wasn't an expected feature, and the system didn't mention it in update logs. The author notes that these quiet, human-like micro-improvements might be how we recognize AI's evolution.
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