Joke rebrands the telephone as 'speech-to-speech' tech to mock AI hype
josh_bickett · x · 2026-10-29
A deadpan joke: "What if we had a technology where you could go straight speech-to-speech, like you speak into your phone and then someone hears it on the other end?" — describing, of course, the ordinary telephone. A jab at AI-circle hype that repackages existing technology as revolutionary breakthroughs.
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