PETA Wants to Replace Punxsutawney Phil With AI

Animal rights group PETA wants to replace famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil with an animatronic AI.

The way the group sees it, not only would an AI be better at estimating when the winter will end, but it would also attract an entirely new generation of visitors to the western Pennsylvanian town. « Today’s young people are born into a world of terabytes, and to them, watching a nocturnal rodent being pulled from a fake hole isn’t even worthy of a text message, » Newkirk said. « Ignoring the nation’s fast-changing demographics might well prove the end of Groundhog Day. »

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