“A.I. works by statistics. If this punctuation mark appears with increased frequency in high-quality writing, then one way to produce your own high-quality writing is to absolutely drench it with the punctuation mark in question.”

Interesting bit about “delve” being imported (assimilated?) from Nigerian English.

Essentially, these early computers are exploiting a quirk (bug?) in the way television signals are interpreted that allows pixels to be displayed in color without actually sending color data.

Many years ago I uploaded some example images of these “fringe benefits”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I...