Interesting, as usual. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I have never considered having an AI relationship. I have a wife and a cat, plus friends and family, and that is enough for me. I can recommend cats, as a sort of compromise between humans and AI.
You highlight the distrust of humans, and this applies to politicians in particular. But it is a mistake to trust something more because it is AI or a machine. Well, it was devised by humans. What is Absolute Reality? You can get some clues from the lyrics by the Alarm, but I am not convinced that there is any such thing. Whoever invented the term ‘reality TV’ was surely being ironic.
A very clever title Ant, and a thought-provoking discussion. It would be interesting to know the demographics of people who choose AI lovers/companions. It strikes me that lonely old people might need them the most, yet be the least able to master the technology that brings them into (virtual) existence. And then there’s the point about it being the breakdown in trusting human relationships which drives the need for these AI surrogates: perversely, it’s the same modern technology, manifested in social media, which may be corroding these real relationships in the first place!
Yes, we are probably are destined to be mice. Like the Bomb, humankind cannot uninvent AI and, if we haven’t blown everything to smithereens first, AI will come to oust us, just as we superseded the Neanderthals.
Interesting, as usual. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I have never considered having an AI relationship. I have a wife and a cat, plus friends and family, and that is enough for me. I can recommend cats, as a sort of compromise between humans and AI.
You highlight the distrust of humans, and this applies to politicians in particular. But it is a mistake to trust something more because it is AI or a machine. Well, it was devised by humans. What is Absolute Reality? You can get some clues from the lyrics by the Alarm, but I am not convinced that there is any such thing. Whoever invented the term ‘reality TV’ was surely being ironic.
A very clever title Ant, and a thought-provoking discussion. It would be interesting to know the demographics of people who choose AI lovers/companions. It strikes me that lonely old people might need them the most, yet be the least able to master the technology that brings them into (virtual) existence. And then there’s the point about it being the breakdown in trusting human relationships which drives the need for these AI surrogates: perversely, it’s the same modern technology, manifested in social media, which may be corroding these real relationships in the first place!
Yes, we are probably are destined to be mice. Like the Bomb, humankind cannot uninvent AI and, if we haven’t blown everything to smithereens first, AI will come to oust us, just as we superseded the Neanderthals.
Thanks for stirring all that up Ant!