Imagine if the movie "Her" (2013) was real and people could fall in love with an AI, would you be weirded out by someone if they did that and especially if it was someone you knew?
with the way AI is getting by the week,it just might be a reality
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I think I’d stick to not judging them but if it was in place of actual socialization, I’d like to get them help.
I don’t see it as a reality. We don't have AI. We have language learning programs that are hovering around mediocre.
what if they were so socially introverted that the AI is all they could handle?
If you’re that crippled by social anxiety, you need help, not isolation with a robot.
Then get professional help if you can't improve on your own.
Social skills aren't innate and some people take longer than others to get them.
Getting help is a lot less embarrassing than living your whole life without social skills. Maybe that's a shrink, maybe that's a day program for people with autism, maybe it's just hanging out with other introverts. But itll only get better if you want to put the effort in. If you don't put effort in, don't be surprised when nothing changes.
That's all that AI is. People just watched too many science fiction movies, and fell for the market-y name. It was always about algorithms and statistics, and not about making sentient computers.
I don't see it as any more problematic than falling in a YouTube/Wikipedia/Reddit rabbit hole. As long as you don't really believe its capital-S-Sentient, I don't see an issue. I would prefer people with social difficulties practice on ChatGPT and pay attention to the dialectical back and forth and take lessons away from that to the real world and their interaction(s) withit
That is really unscientific. There is a lot of research on LLMs showing they have emergent intelligent features. They have internal models of the world etc.
And there is nothing to indicate that what we do is not “transforming” in some way. Our minds might be indistinguishable from what we are building towards with AI currently.
And that will likely make more of us start realising that the brain and the mind are not consciousness. We’ll build intelligences, with minds, but without consciousnesses.