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I didn't much rate Spike Jonze's movie 'Her' back in 2013 (IMDB link). I can't remember why and don't have the time to watch it again to see if I was w-w-wrong. It's about (it says here) a lonely writer who develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. Ring a bell? He carries his device around with him in his shirt pocket, having increasingly emotional conversations with his, er, operating system.
I am once again asking you to commit to the major step of clicking a link to an article I can't be bothered to paraphrase just because you can't be bothered to read it. Here's the link.
TLDR? Never mind. Basically, it's happening in what is known as "real life", only it's even worserer. Lonely individuals are "inseminating" their AI "girlfriends" and having AI "babies". It makes you wonder if the collapse of civilisation is a fair price for unlimited kitten pictures.
What's that buzzin' sound? It's the Hive Mind!
The mind boggles....
ReplyDeleteYeah but, FFS. I really laughed at this, but…
ReplyDelete…I’m lucky because I have real friends and am physically able to leave the house. Also I’ve heard from people about FB, X and other (anti)social medias, and the online world is full of people who I probably wouldn’t want to meet in real life, so don’t feel the need to join these clubs.
I have heard that it’s rather nice when an AI (like Replika) talks to you in a positively affirming way, but I’d rather hang around with my occasionally annoying and often opinionated friends, I don’t need my ego inflated by a machine. As for this stuff I’ve just read, I can only expect these people have very few real life opportunities, so if it makes them happy, good luck to them, but FFS.
Not a problem for me. I wear an AI condom.
ReplyDeleteThat's the smallest they make, isn't it?
DeleteGood idea pmac, I think I'll wrap my computer monitor and keyboard in cling-film just to be on the safe side.
Delete"I'm an anaconda!"
DeleteIf that's "tl" then the future is three sentences and we're done with it.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's not for me. It's of a piece, though. If cats are children instead of pets, your Tamagotchi was a step towards falling in love with a program. It makes sense, but I don't think I can do it.
All of my interactions with AI pretending to be human instead of talking tools have been maddening. F*ck you, Alexa, don't wish me a good day, you're incapable of actual feelings and emotions and wouldn't know my best day from my worst day. Just play "*801 Live" when I tell you to and shut up.
Thanks for the link to the Futurism article. While I saw the movie "Her" around its release date - it didn't blow me away nor did I come away thinking - oh no this could become a big thing. After reading the article you provided - I thought - Huh!! Not something I would be interested in - but for those that get something/anything from it - good for them - whatever floats their boat. Bambi's comment resonated with me. For me - unlimited kitten pictures are not a fair trade off for what is generally happening in the world today.
ReplyDeleteplease post a link to the unlimited kitten pitchurs! why wasn't i told about this soone?!! also unlimited mommy fotos and almost anything in large amounts. i have voids to fill!!
ReplyDeleteI avoid "personal assistants" like the plague and agree with just about everything said above but I will point out that our lives are different from most Pre-Guttenberg humans. I read and relate deeply to the words of humans who have been dead for many (in some cases hundreds of) years. Those (it could be said) are just ink marks on a page. Then there's film. Bogart and Cagney still live (though not really) and the hundredth anniversary of the The Coconuts (1929 Marx Brothers film) approaches. I also love to listen to the voices of John Lennon, Nick Drake, Howlin' Wolf, Janis Joplin and hundreds of others. Those aren't real human voices (one might say). They are electronic signals stored on tape.
ReplyDeleteMy point is not that the things I cite above aren't different from AI companionship in a fundamental way (Yes, I understand that). What I am saying is that modern cognitive experience is really weird and in some sense solipsistic.
"Psychologically speaking, the human mind or brain or whatever, is almost incapable of distinguishing between the real and the vividly imagined experience. Sound and film and music and radio. Even these manipulative experiences are received more or less directly and uninterpreted by the mind. They are cataloged and recorded and either acted upon directly, or stored in the memory, or both. Now this process, unless we pay it tremendous attention, begins to separate us from the reality of the now."
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Don't worry! When AI takes over the world, nothing can possibly go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...
ReplyDeleteclick click clack clack bang bang yum yum AI by any other name
ReplyDeletewho here hasn't succumbed to the various forms that has lead to this thing called AI it nutures us feeds us delights us and scares the shit out of us when it looms over us
Westworld (1973) with Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger was to me a forerunner of what we are dealing with now
....woody
Speaking of AI...Dweezil has a Xmas video for the masses, if you're into it. (feel free to delete if it offends you...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunaMtPc4v0
ReplyDeleteDweezil might be offended (it's Ahmet), but I found it heartwarmingly Yulish.
Deleteoops, yes it's Ahmet...sorry 'bout that. What would Frank think?
DeleteThanks for that link, it certainly boggles the mind, although the BBC had a similar weird article:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.com/articles/c4nnje9rpjgo
Like most of the visitors here I prefer human friends, very old fashioned I guess, but I don't care.
Love is a reaction between two people. No robot is capable of love, and to "love" an AI "person" isn't love at all. Yes, I suppose that whatever gets you through the night is all right, but still - it's delusional and stupid. And dangerous.
DeleteI'm sorry Dave.. I can't do that
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