Just for fun, I'd like to push back against this a bit...
"But humans are mainly interested in other humans and need to communicate with other humans. That won’t change."
I would propose that we aren't interested in other humans so much as we are with what we obtain from other humans. I don't just mean goods and services etc, but the psych…
Just for fun, I'd like to push back against this a bit...
"But humans are mainly interested in other humans and need to communicate with other humans. That won’t change."
I would propose that we aren't interested in other humans so much as we are with what we obtain from other humans. I don't just mean goods and services etc, but the psychological benefits too.
Human to human interaction requires a lot of compromise and negotiation, because our fellow humans have needs they want met too. AI doesn't have needs, so we don't need to compromise and negotiate with AI. This is a huge competitive advantage for AI.
We're already seeing sites which offer AI "friends" and the like. Before AI huge numbers of people flocked to the Internet because of the level of control that offered them in their social relationships. Other than my happy marriage, I have largely abandoned real world social interaction for online social interaction over the last 30 years, because here I can do nerd talk all day long, a feature unavailable in the real world.
How much difference is there really between talking with a human online that we know nothing about and will never meet in person, and talking to a bot? We see a big difference today because we're creatures of the past, but will those born in to a world filled with talking bots still see a big difference?
I suspect who we really want to communicate with is whoever, or whatever, will give us the most of whatever it is we want at the lowest possible cost.
Just for fun, I'd like to push back against this a bit...
"But humans are mainly interested in other humans and need to communicate with other humans. That won’t change."
I would propose that we aren't interested in other humans so much as we are with what we obtain from other humans. I don't just mean goods and services etc, but the psychological benefits too.
Human to human interaction requires a lot of compromise and negotiation, because our fellow humans have needs they want met too. AI doesn't have needs, so we don't need to compromise and negotiate with AI. This is a huge competitive advantage for AI.
We're already seeing sites which offer AI "friends" and the like. Before AI huge numbers of people flocked to the Internet because of the level of control that offered them in their social relationships. Other than my happy marriage, I have largely abandoned real world social interaction for online social interaction over the last 30 years, because here I can do nerd talk all day long, a feature unavailable in the real world.
How much difference is there really between talking with a human online that we know nothing about and will never meet in person, and talking to a bot? We see a big difference today because we're creatures of the past, but will those born in to a world filled with talking bots still see a big difference?
I suspect who we really want to communicate with is whoever, or whatever, will give us the most of whatever it is we want at the lowest possible cost.
Good conversation, thanks!
Yes, that's possible. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out. I enjoyed talking to you as well!