I think humans are too specifically hardwired for actual human interaction for it to work. Like, it’s so specific that even online communication with real humans doesn’t fill the void. I can talk to friends on Discord for ages, but it’s not the same as meeting up and going to do something.
I really don’t think an AI, even a convincing one, is going to make a large dent on loneliness in the majority of cases.
I think it depends on the humans. Personally, I find online interactions more comfortable than in-person ones, most of the time. In-person interactions exhaust me, if they aren’t with the small handful of people with whom I’m most comfortable, so I can really only take them in short doses. I can chat online without any such issues, so if I were lonely, a companion A.I. that could carry on actual conversations might really help, even if it isn’t a 1:1 replacement for human interaction.
I’m aware that I am probably not representative of the majority of people, but I doubt I’m the only one who feels the way I do, so there could be a place for this sort of thing, where it could do some actual good.
Someone’s already killed themself after encouragement from an ai. I don’t think trusting ai with unrestricted and unsupervised access to vulnerable people is a good idea.
I’m amazed by the fact that such systems are able to resume operations after a so long interruption, without requiring an human to press some physical button.
Not precisely humans but the ancient placental mammal lineage that includes humans, dogs, and bats.
Obviously. That’s how evolution works. Everything alive today had an “ancestor” alive at the time of the dinosaurs, and before the time of the dinosaurs.
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