AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society
AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society
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AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society
As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.
As a software dev who is interested in AI, I've spent a lot of time building a personal AI chat app, and I feel like that gives me a view on things.
I can totally see how people become enamoured by this stuff, because on the surface level it can be very convincing, and very compelling. It feels like a person. But in my position - where I'm writing the code and can see every interaction happening under the hood at the base level - it becomes very clear it's nothing more than a rather competent predictive text. Just a probability engine filling in the blanks. And I'm glad for that, because as much as I might interact with AI, I'm never going to start believing it is sentient, or that it cares about me in any way.
AI is a glorified autocomplete, and nothing more. Please don't believe otherwise.
It's still Eliza.
It’s really not. And it will continue to diverge.
One finds the limits of Eliza really fast.
I'm in a very similar position (though I'm using koboldcpp) and I feel like it's easy to see how shallow it is after just a few cursory interactions. It honestly makes me pretty concerned about some people's social understanding if they're getting enthralled by the predictive text machine.