How does The Good Place’s Janet compare to artificial intelligence assistants like Siri and Alexa?

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The NBC comedy’s android character, played by D'Arcy Carden, is like a search engine on steroids, says Brittany Levine Beckman. “How Janet learns is kinda, sorta like how artificial neural networks, which are modeled off the human brain, work,” she says. “… She gains knowledge as she encounters new things, but we don’t know how she gets from point A to point B, and neither does she, really.

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