I’m personally not and I never will be, but I keep seeing on the news that a lot of people are actually becoming friends with their AI bots, trying to use them as substitutes to replace real human interaction. Kinda scary, kinda absurd. What is your take on this? And are you friends with a bot?
You can’t be friends with a program
No shit Sherlock I’m not saying you can become friends with a program I’m saying a lot of people are using it as a substitute for real human interaction aka friends you dolt
Is it really necessary to be rude?
Yeah OP came out swinging for no reason
I’m not saying you can become friends
But you’re literally asking people if they are friends with AI… that implies that you believe you can become friends with it.
From their prespective. Did you not read the description of my post?
I did. And there is nothing in there that implies that you don’t believe it. In fact it kind of confirm it an additional 3 times.
Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.
Nope, not even acquainted.
Once you realize LLMs are nothing much but very advanced auto-complete, behavior of AI fanatics becomes no different than any other cult.
Cant be friends with a text based probability engine
No I’m not delusional.
they aren’t sentient so they’re just as incapable of being your friend as your favorite coffee mug or perfume
I think we’re gonna see it in an edition of the DSM.
I’ll admit I’ve used ChatGPT to get answers to absurdly specific use cases that I couldn’t find with a regular Internet search, but I’ve never “talked” to an AI not because they can’t “talk”, the LLM has no conscious way to understand the text it’s regurgitating. Nobody should be trying to become “friends” with an AI bot
AI characters do nothing but spew meaningless platitudes and generic advice dressed up as a personality. That’s like considering the horoscope section on a random website to be your sister.
Not that I know of, but these days I guess there is no way to tell.
No, I would never be able to use AI as a substitute for anything other than a search engine, considering the decline in quality of current ones. I used to joke about it, but now I feel sorry for anyone so desperate for companionship that they would seek it in an AI chatbot.
I don’t think so. Surely a friendship is a two-way street, does AI even have the ability to form a friendship?
The media says a lot of stupid things.
Cool
F… friends?
Go outside. What the fuck is wrong with you?
No and I don’t give clankers names, I use them for the specific goal I set out for (mostly coding or grunt tasks) and that’s it.
