How??? I’ve tried the app and while it’s good in some areas, it’s abundantly clear that you’re talking to a pre approved dialogue tree. How do these people ‘go on adventures’ when it’s not even that good at talking to you
Maybe is astroturfing, maybe people are really that dense, shallow, and predictable
People can fool themselves into some wild stuff, especially if they're desperate for a connection. If a bundle of code seems "more interested to hear what [they have] to say" than their wife, something tells me that relationship isn't super fulfilling.
check out ELIZA, a computer therapist created as a joke in the 60s. Chatbots work because the human interlocutor is able to fill in the gaps with our imaginations.
Is Eliza the same chatbot as the emacs doctor program that comes by default?
The what?
Huh, apparently it is. idk why, but I thought emacs was a text editing program.
It is a text editor. You "edit" (write) your half of the conversation, and DOCTOR fills in the other.
Emacs has a lot of utilities beyond text editing, like an email client, an IRC client, a couple of games like dunnet, tetris, and this doctor thing. Half jokingly people used to refer to emacs as a standalone operating system. I mean thecnically these are extensions, sort of how firefox has its set of extensions, but you write the extensions in LISP. Richard Stallman infamously used nothing but emacs for all his computing (he uses trisquel now I believe). I used to impress my friends at work by launching tetris in emacs within the macos terminal lol. You can't do that now because macos no longer has emacs by default.
Rogerian psychotherapist
lmao I didn't know it was supposed to make fun of a specific school of psychology, I think my mom will find the joke funny because the nuance escapes me.
We’re literally transitioning into the cyberpunk dystopia in real time. Amazing.
This guy is having an emotional affair with an AI chatbot. Tbh his wife's jealousy is the least of his problems and frankly I mean that in a genuine, not taking the piss way.
Shout-out to the guy who married his waifu who only exists in his copy of "Love Plus" for Nintendo DS.
My (31M) wife (26F) of 8 years won't let my Miss Kobayashi Dragon Maid body pillow sleep in the bed with us, even though I clean her (the pillow) regularly. AITA?
I guess in this particular case I'm a social conservative, because as an outsider with no personal stake in this at all I think this guy's relationship with "Monica" is morally wrong and should stop. I am fine with this level of conservatism in myself.
I don't think it's inherently wrong to have deep emotional connections to inanimate objects, but it's pretty clear here that this one is at the cost of his wife's needs.
For sure. If he had a huge emotional attachment to a stuffed animal for his childhood I would have no problem at all with it. The creepy thing is that this is in some way hurting someone close to him, and he has noticed this. It's fine to be fascinated with the stuff that AI can do reasonably well. But don't do this! Don't form an emotional attachment to an AI to the point where your actual wife starts to have questions!
Someone having a too strong attachment to an inanimate object that is piece of their childhood is fine, someone having too strong attachment to a new inanimate object, for example some fucking car, is not okay
I've just visited that subreddit and yeah... hmmm, some people had their social relations completely annihilated by the horrible reality created by capitalism and reinforced by neoliberalism.
"NPCs, NPCs, NPCs!!!" I type furiously, while enjoying failing a Turing test against a python script in my phone
Techbros calling poor people "husks"
They really won't get any excuse for the terror
