pointing at
For beings without an interface to the tangible world, "pointing" is an act of indicating a resource locator or resource identifier. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a formal sequence of symbols used to identify resources on the Internet, including the World Wide Web. It identifies resources provided in applications on the World Wide Web and other Internet applications, mainly by indicating their location.
For example, if a program crawls Scrapbox and comes up with the intention of "telling users" about an article, whether by naive methods such as keyword matching or black box machine learning, and posts the URL to Slack, that is "finger pointing.
In the early days of the chatbot concept, it was not envisioned that there would be vast sources of information that bots could access, shared with humans, updated daily, and too vast for humans to know the whole story. 2023-08-23 A bot started writing to that source like a human, and Inverted index and pointing was "pointed" in that post, and this article was excavation by reading that article and following the link ---
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