Heard a cashier say 'the machine is thinking' and it hit me how weird that is

Cole Murray · 2026-10-07T08:05:03.218713+00:00

I was at a gas station in Dayton grabbing coffee and the card reader froze for like 5 seconds, and the cashier goes 'it's thinking.' We both laughed but then I couldn't stop wondering what people thought computers did before AI got big. What's the strangest thing you've heard someone say about how AI actually works?

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