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Either way it would need to 100% local. Not just privacy (that too), but more control. See replika service recently changing their algo and a bunch of people freaking out about their companion being broken.
The concerns mentioned in this thread are very valid, but there is a second side to this as well. There are many lonely people, be it for depression, anxiety, inability to create social contacts, living in exclusion, being old and having no descendants, … They are largely invisible to the rest of the society. Seems to me that this technology might make their lives more bearable.
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This. While not me personally, there is obviously a market (Japan comes to mind) for virtual, non-human based interactions and relationships. While it seems pretty clear to me subjectively that removing human interaction from your life has a negative effect it's still desired by some and they're entitled to that.
The very last thing shut-in men in Japan need is a SaaS virtual girlfriend
The internet and social media has exacerbated a societal problem that has always existed, so now we have the problem why not make it more meaningful and less depressing.
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It won’t work for training social skills unless the agent has self interest and competing priorities. These chat bots have been optimized for helpful assistance. Interaction with that kind of compliance on the other side will probably make your social skills much worse.
User experiments with early Bing chatbot (driven by some version of GPT?) have shown that AI can be both hostile to the user and protective of their own "interests".
This makes me think if ChatGPT-based bots could be useful for teaching social skills in a therapeutic context. A therapist could use such LLM to synthesize examples of realistic dialogue by describing people and the situation, and discuss them with the patient. They could set up a bunch of bots with (hidden) priorities and goals, and have the patient navigate a conversation/situation with them - whether as a short exercise, or a prolonged one (e.g. couple weeks of talking with ChatGPT-powered fake "friends" on an IM app).
In fact, take the last bit as a free startup idea: a platform for psychologist and therapists to set up GPT-4 (or whatever comes next)-powered chatbots, with an easy interface for configuring their personalities and setting up scenarios for patients to navigate, and helping evaluate their progress over time.
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I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.
A consequence-free environment doesn't necessarily mean a lack of consequences psychologically though.
I'm very torn on this. On one hand, I think that personalized OSS AIs are the future from a pure utility perspective, and it will inevitably be "more fun" for them to have personalities. I also think that if someone is deriving joy from something and not harming anyone else, who I am to judge them. On the other, I've already found myself asking ChatGPT questions that I would have asked on a forum/discord or even a co…
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But that depends on which interactions it replaces. There are people I don't want to talk to. Not always because I don't like them but because it's technicalities and unrewarding forced interactions. For example, clerks at the tax office who just do their job. But on the other hand, there are interactions which I really don't want to miss! "Girlfriend" GPT is already targeting the most intricate and joyful interactio…
> Can it help people combat loneliness - a disease widespread and not to be trifled with? Is loneliness a disease? It's an honest question. I never saw it as an issue. I tend to be a loner, but in a sense I was also never truly lonely.
I made a Tinder bot in the first month of GPT-3's public API release. The ethics made me squirm so I always asked for permission to turn it on and told people when it was on and off. The models moral alignment was way more "friendly" back then so turned it into some pretty saucy chats. The model was better than me at replying, still single though. (It was simply holding onto the last 10-20 messages and injecting it i…
How did people react to your request to turn on an AI bot?