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Spoilers follow for The Final Intercut: So Im Your Horse, the finale episode ofMrs.

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In the end,Mrs.

Davisis not really a story about artificial intelligence.

But also just like ChatGPT, theMrs.

Davis app is primarily a funhouse mirror.

Which is why its so perfect and so beautiful that in the end,Mrs.

Davisis also a show about how an app designed to promote Buffalo Wild Wings eventually took over the world.

Its why Mrs. Davis wants to give people wings.

At its most nihilistic,Mrs.

The AI is just the rig that makes that happen.

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty bleak stuff!

But thats not where the series ends, andMrs.

(This show rules.)

Mrs. Davis, whatever else she may be, is designed to create joy; so isMrs.

As Simones Mother Superior points out, there are people who have found meaning in what Mrs. Davis provided.

(This showrules).

Does that imply people cant still find meaning in it?

From a customer point of view, those can look like the same thing.

You still got the thing!

Satisfaction is cheap and temporary.

In the end,Mrs.

Davisis not about what AI is but rather about what it can and cannot provide.

It can be satisfying, and algorithmic satisfaction can still have meaning.

Davismight hope youre satisfied, but more than that, it wants us all to care.

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