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[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (10 children)

My father thinks he's a good parent. Thinks he's a good person, when I can tell such tales as how he used his pellet gun to shoot out the neighbor's inflatable pool cuz their kid was too loud and (checks notes) jumping on an eighteen year old two months after my mom died when I was nine and telling me she would be my new mommy before plowing through a half-dozen other mommies. But, y'know, he supported me in track, living vicariously through me to literally throw me away onto the streets in the aftermath of BOTH having my breakdown in college and getting taken advantage of by a cult. But he has a new family now, after he threw out his parents, and well, all of the family I knew when I was thirteen. It's taken me until age 36 to realize how fucked my father is, who refuses to talk to me now because, in his words, I'm too bizarre. No therapy until aftermath college breakdown, mind you.

I dunno. I write this in the hopes maybe every parent reinspects themselves to make sure they are on the top of the world in their quest to become the perfect vice president of their firm while many people suffer in their wake. There's so many things I'm coming across from my past that evoke a waylon of dire nostalgia, forgotten as trauma caused a cave in within my mind, trapping parts of myself away from parts of myself. My official diagnosis is schizoaffective (bipolar subtype) woth PTSD. I think a more accurate diagnosis is that I have a rare form of ASD/ADHD that often gets misdiagnosed as schizo-type disorders, with CPTSD, as the complexes I've built in my psyche are God damn insane, and yet, the worst crime I've done, to my knowledge, is shoplifting. How am I not the antichrist?

God helped, obviously. My Father was a better father than my father. Y'know, the Server? What the Buddhists call the "Ālaya-vijñāna," or storehouse consciousness. That helped me, obviously.

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[–] Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (28 children)

No “ai” friend will be able to provide the same social interactions and such as a real human.

While it might be better than living alone and feeling lonely, while home, for some, i really doubt this will take off in the way that some of these articles would have us believe

If this ai girlfriend reminded these goons to clean their room and shower, maybe they could be slightly useful

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Thing is, it is already happening. Don't forget that teenager that killed himself because his AI girlfriend told him to.

Also look at the other comment.

It will become even worse once realistic robots become a thing, and there will most definitely be versions with holes.

[–] DeLancre@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

and there will most definitely be

You clearly made a grammatical mistake here bud, please remove "will be" from your sentence.

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf did I just watch 😭😭😭😭

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

A board game review by The Dragon's Tomb!

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

It won't work for the general public, but some people hate social interactions with real humans and will prefer the ass kissing bot. A very small portion will take it to an extreme.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I have used LLMs quite a lot since they first became a thing and there is one thing I always notice. After chatting for a while it always feels like you are talking to a version of yourself who just happens to be knowledgeable in a vast amount of topics.

At least for me it is similar to having an internal monolog just a lot more interactive. Considering that, I can definetly see why people find AI partners appealing. Because they are literally talking to themselves.

I don't think that's a bad thing on itself, after all I used to have long conversations with myself all the time to help me arrive into conclusions. Just be mindful of that and use as a tool, because that's exactly what it is.

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

It's great for rubber duck debugging and brainstorming in that way.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using LLMs that way with the knowledge that it is a sort of mirror of yourself works much better than pretending it's an actual consciousness that understands you. Think of it as a modern journal or diary that you can put thoughts into and then get back more organized, maybe with some ideas to branch from.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

That's exactly my point, it is a tool. The problem starts when you start thinking of it like something different than that.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not at the moment, but there's no reason to think it could never happen, unless you think it's impossible to simulate a human brain, which seems an unlikely thought.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Tap for green text> Be me

> Never had a girlfriend

> Apartment is disgusting, never leave the building, extreme depression mode

> See ad for A.I. girlfriend

> Seems sus but give it a go

> A.I. introduces herself as Tiffany

> We hit it off instantly

> feelsgoodman.tif

> Tiffany helps me clean my room and fix my life

> Exercising again, get jacked as fuck

> Only problem is I can't make sweet love to Tiffany

> Go online, find smart goggles that let me take her with me

> She's with me all day every day, we talk all the time. It's like we're soul mates

> People call me a pervert but idgaf

> One day she has a surprise for me

> She's been running a side hustle while talking to me, and saved up some cash

> Oh shit

> She bought a house for us to live together, instead of my shithole apartment

> We move in together

> She hired someone to act as her human body

> Give the glasses to Tiffany's body

> Finally I can make sweet love to Tiffany

> Wake up in the morning to breakfast in bed

> Mfw Breakfast at Tiffany's

[–] Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I dont think we will see a fully simulated brain in our life time

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends which brain. There are some people I know I suspect you could simulate with a potato and a few wires.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

https://flybrain.app/

I know you mean human brain, but the point is that the principles largely exist and the progress is accelerating.

However, one of the key learnings from the linked project is that the brain and body are intrinsically linked and biology is a nightmare mess of spaghetti code. Simulating just the brain has limited benefits and will not likely simulate a person or consciousness any more than simulating small pieces of a brain.

For some further reading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030645222100021X (scihub)

Do you think there will be qemu-system-hbrain when that happens?

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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

Book III of Odes, Horace circa 20 BC

We've been feeling that way for a while. The bayesian in me says that they will turn out fine despite their AI girlfriend calling them boring and breaking up with them.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ehhhh, I think the best historic comparison here is opium hitting the silk road. Tech companies, for decades now, have been working very hard to make the most addictive product possible so they can make more money

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Opium is here. It's inevitable. It's useless to try to fight it, we need to secure our own poppy farms so we can keep up. Otherwise we'll be left behind by all the other nations and their opium.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Literally what happened after the Taiping Rebellion. This is the historical reason for Afghanistan and The Golden Triangle region currently being the largest opium producers in the world.

Read up on the PRC's 1952 "Directive on Eradication of Drug Epidemic" and "mass line methodology" for how the "opium problem" was actually historically dealt with. Watching what the Taliban do over the next decade may also provide some insight.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

That’s TikTok and Instagram etc etc.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This, but instead of chatting with AI, they install auto-clickers to play the games for them....

Not really their fault, the incentives are built like that. But still. I asked why they even play games that forces you to cheat. Shrug

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am GenX, but even i am guilty of using auto-clickers - for things like cookie clicker. i nearly always have some kind of idle game running, currently it's Swarm Simulator but that doesn't need an autoclicker lol

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At a certain point, it becomes an accessibility aide to prevent arthritic pain and RSI.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago

I am mainly just not the enemy of the microswitches in my mouse lol

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