Fuck AI

AGI that quickly transitioned to ASI (since that's theoretically what would happen once the first happens). The term "AI" has been misused and marketed so much now it's lost its previous connection to the actual "Artificial Intelligence" meaning.

The AI in Her was able to pass as a full person. But, what we're seeing now is that humans are not good at understanding the difference between a real person and a program designed to simulate a human.

IMO it's like the mirror test which is designed to see if an animal recognizes itself in the mirror, or thinks it's another animal. The LLM breakthrough is basically that we can now have a computer program that is in no way intelligent or self-aware, but it is able to simulate those things well enough to fool many / most humans.

And yet we have people treating chatbot as therapist or even romantic partner. Going to get worse as AI technology develops

AI doesn't stand for artificial personhood. One of the first big AI projects was teaching a computer to play chess.

The word AI as a technical term refers to a broad category of algorithms; what you're talking about is AGI.

So, I checked it out. People there need a therapist. Some are really getting married to their LLM boyfriends.

Well now I have to check this out.

I stumbled upon it just yesterday and what horrible sight it was.

Nah, it makes a lot more sense for people who don't/can't hold normal conversations. It would probably be harder to parse all the strange behavior and easier to overlook when it's your only lifeline.

Talk to normal people. It's free.

I did the same a few months ago just to try it. Im not sure if what I used was the problem or if there are better ones, but it was actually crazy at first where no matter what you say and build the scene you were able to do it which was pretty cool. But after about 15 min, the entire thing started to crumble where things were repeated a lot more, and then I somehow broke it where all it did was spit out gibberish, at which point I laughed and stopped.

So I wanna know, are these people who get that involved and attached using something better or are they that starved for affection and interaction that they are willing to settle for something that barely scrapes the surface of a true conversation.

Almost like it's just advanced auto complete with a bit of randomization...

There are enough lonely people who are burning to have a chat online. Don't give in to this mental and psychological masturbation.

Omg YES!

But! It’s a movie made before doomscrolling while watching was a thing, so you are expected to pay close attention the whole time and not be on your phone while you watch it

Absolutely, go watch it. It's beautiful and the actors feel authentic.

Ex machina is more about the question of machine consciousness & sentience.

The idea of the "virtual friend" has been around for a long time. I think it's curious that like Star Trek or other franchises hasn't used that idea yet, for what I know.

In 2007 when I was ten, you'd almost certainly get laughed out of the room by other ten year olds when you said you were right because someone on club penguin agreed with you. It's beyond me how those ten year olds are now 28 year olds that think they're right because a text generator agreed with you.