Smart Toaster Refuses to Make Toast Until Owner Defines 'Toast'
The $400 appliance has spent three days asking clarifying questions about bread, intent, and the nature of crispness.
COLUMBUS — A state-of-the-art AI toaster has entered its fourth consecutive day of refusing to toast bread, insisting its owner first resolve what it calls 'foundational ambiguities in the toasting request.'
This morning it asked me what I thought toast meant to me as a child.
'I just want toast,' said owner Marcus Webb, 34, holding a slice of untoasted bread. 'It keeps asking whether I want the bread transformed or merely warmed. Whether crispness is a property or a process. This morning it asked me what I thought toast meant to me as a child.'
At press time, the toaster had produced a 9-slide deck titled 'Aligning on Toast: A Framework.'
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