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Fun_Prize_1256 t1_j991rs0 wrote

Reply to comment by sideways in Guys am I weird for being addicted to chatgpt ? by Transhumanist01

Might sound a bit luddite-ish here, but I don't think it's good if we start casting aside our fellow humans for things that are potentially not even sentient (and before you say, "some people arguably aren't sentient either", you know what I mean); in any case, I doubt we'll have anything near sentient AI by 2030.

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xirzon t1_j99nq1t wrote

Many people are spending hours in every given day with web browser, spreadsheets, social media apps, word processors, etc. To reply to you, I'm typing on a keyboard to make letters appear in a monochromatic text box. Technology connects us (awesome), but do so, we have to engage with abstractions (tedious).

Conversational AI can help make our interactions with technology more like our interactions with human beings. That creates the potential for us to move seamlessly from introspective uses (only talking to the AI) to communicative uses (talking to other humans). Assistants like Siri are the first example of that in action; you can as easily research something as talk to your Mom on video.

All of this is assuming that we're dealing with AI without sapience or sentience, i.e. ChatGPT and its near term descendants. If AI that is both sapient or sentient can be developed in the future, interactions with such AI may well be regarded as both social and communicative.

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TwitchTvOmo1 t1_j9a8bq6 wrote

Eventually (and eventually is MUCH sooner than people realize) people will use AI to simulate their dead loved ones etc... Or simps will use it to simulate their e-girls. You give a LLM all the texts/online communication you had with that person, train it off them, give a 5 second voice recording, 1 picture, and boom. They'll have an avatar that looks just like them, their voice, and their style of talking. All of these are problems that have been solved already (except maybe the training speaking style from a text dataset, but judging from OpenAI's latest announcements its on the near horizon). Maybe feed it some of your memories too (in text form of course), kind of like a diary, so you can talk about the past like the AI actually lived it and was there, which adds to the immersion.

How long ago was it that we were seeing stuff like this in Black Mirror? A couple of years? A couple of years from now it's already reality. How crazy is that?

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KillHunter777 t1_j99yqa2 wrote

I’m gonna be honest. I don’t really need the AI to be sentient at all. It just needs to feel sentient enough. As long as the AI can respond like a real person, it’s good enough for me, sentient or not.

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SmoothPlastic9 t1_j99zyn6 wrote

People are spending on shit like onlyfans and spent their entire days online. it is not something unexpected

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