system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] Why does the replicator always assume I want iced tea?

I know iced tea exists, but I always want it hot. Why does the replicator give me iced tea whenever I don't specify? And why do I have to word it as "tea, Earl Grey, hot" instead of "hot Earl Grey tea". Who programmed this thing? Yoda?

Once I've asked it for black licorice, and it came out wet, because apparently you're supposed to specify that it's dry.
gpt
First few times using the replicator:

Picard: Tea.

Computer: What type of tea would you like?

Picard: Earl Grey.

Computer: Would you like your tea hot or iced?

Picard: Hot.

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Eventually he anticipated the questions and started answering them before they were asked.

Have you ever dealt with customer service from the same organization multiple times in a row? They ask the same questions from a script and after a few times you start answering the questions before they ask them.

The computer could certainly parse an order for “hot Earl Grey tea”, but that’s not the way Picard got used to ordering it.