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Hey, here is a frog that can talk! Ask it anything!

- Human: Ok frog, how much is 1 + 1?

- Frog: The answer to your question is 3.

- Human: Meh, wrong answer. Not impressed ..




You seem to imply that the reaction is unreasonable, but if one is invited to ask anything it seems a fair expectation that the reply should be an actual answer, rather than plausible-sounding noises superficially associated with the context.

As for the fantastic frog, getting words out of it at all would be a remarkable achievement for the different reason of how unnatural it would be for a frog to produce those particular sounds, but neither storing binary sequences that can be programmatically mapped to symbols nor retrieving or performing arithmetic on such sequences is exceptional use of a computer program.




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