Artificial Intimacy and Empathy: Does Authenticity Matter?
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Artificial Intimacy and Empathy: Does Authenticity Matter?
How will the use of this technology affect how I relate to other people?
Ezra Klein • 41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
Jordan Schneider: I want to come back to Her and companionship. Will this put therapists out of business?
Tyler Cowen: A lot of people like the human therapist as a kind of placebo, even if they know it's not more effective than the AI. But I would guess this will cut the demand for therapists by a quarter, maybe a third.
Tyler Cowen • Tyler Cowen on AI and China
It turns out that computers are particularly adept at the tasks that we humans find most difficult: crunching equations, solving logical propositions, and other modes of abstract thought. What artificial intelligence finds most difficult are the sensory perceptive tasks and motor skills that we perform unconsciously: walking, drinking from a cup, s
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Another worry relates to chatbots’ lack of inner lives. Critics, like the philosopher Shannon Vallor in The AI Mirror (2024), argue that there is something defective about emotional bonds with entities that cannot reciprocate affection or interest, about love that is kept alive by ‘the economic rationality of exchange’ rather than a more precarious... See more
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
So in other words: listening to others, understanding their inner emotional and mental landscape, expressing authentic and appropriate emotions , and using verbal and non verbal communication to build stronger relationships are critical skills that AI will have a harder time doing well.=
Jason Shen • 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI
None of this is to imply that human beings should repudiate the technologies that make us more efficient. We just have to recognize which needs greater quantity can meet, and which it cannot. For example, AI chatbots cannot meet the need for intimacy. LLMs cannot meet the need for creativity. AI-generated art cannot meet the need for aesthetic nour... See more