There will be groups of people who treat these programs as people, and grow attached to them on an emotional level. There will be groups of people who grow dependent on the programs, but don’t see them as anything other than a tool. There will still be a deep-seated psychological problem with that, but a fundamentally different one.
Then there will be the people who will do their damnedest to keep those programs away from their technology. They’ll mostly be somewhere on the fediverse (or whatever other similar services that pop up) and we’ll be able to ask them.
In those cases there is an understanding that the roomba isn’t actually sentient, people are just choosing to suspend disbelief for the sake of play. The relationships people are forming with AI are far more serious, and the people engaging in them have developed an emotional dependence on the delusion that the AI is sentient.
What I meant to imply is that if we can give persona to inanimate objects just because they happen to move, it makes sense that something that can be spoken to would cause an even larger reaction.
I think in the long run, they will be developed for kids, kids will grow up with them and they will be their best friends. No, this is not the universe I wanted to be in, but this is the future we’re heading for.
I wonder what’s going to happen to humanity when we all have personal LLMs running on our phones /PCs
(I’m imaging something like the ThunderHead from Arc of a scythe)
Like, will society still view deeply emotional relationships to LLMs as mental illness?
There will be groups of people who treat these programs as people, and grow attached to them on an emotional level. There will be groups of people who grow dependent on the programs, but don’t see them as anything other than a tool. There will still be a deep-seated psychological problem with that, but a fundamentally different one.
Then there will be the people who will do their damnedest to keep those programs away from their technology. They’ll mostly be somewhere on the fediverse (or whatever other similar services that pop up) and we’ll be able to ask them.
People put googly eyes on their roombas and apologize to them when they bump into them.
In those cases there is an understanding that the roomba isn’t actually sentient, people are just choosing to suspend disbelief for the sake of play. The relationships people are forming with AI are far more serious, and the people engaging in them have developed an emotional dependence on the delusion that the AI is sentient.
What I meant to imply is that if we can give persona to inanimate objects just because they happen to move, it makes sense that something that can be spoken to would cause an even larger reaction.
I think in the long run, they will be developed for kids, kids will grow up with them and they will be their best friends. No, this is not the universe I wanted to be in, but this is the future we’re heading for.