Could you be friends with an AI?

[exitseven]

I remember the movie with Scarlett Johansen as the AI and the guy was Joaquin Phoenix. It was sort of creepy but people have relationships all the time with people they will never meet in person. Is this the next step in the evolution of the relationship between man and machine.

[AviatorTom]

Did you ever see The Stepford Wives movie (1975 original or its 2004 remake) ? Weren't the artificial women in it essentially AI robots that their husbands became very friendly with?

[Red_Arrow]

The husbands were in on replacing their wives before it happened.

[exitseven]

I think I saw the remake and you are right.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for MHO

[OlderAndWiser]

I have started a few relationships long distance but always with the goal of meeting in person ASAP. No, AI is not a woman and the only machine I will ever love is my car! :) :) :)

[exitseven]

I did not see that coming. 😊😊😊😊

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks, man!

[TrueConfection]

I suppose AI can provide a sense of company to a desperate person in the same way a talking stuffed animal like Teddy Ruxpin could.

[Juxtapose]

You are making the mistake of thinking intelligence can only exist in carbon-based life forms.

Silicone based lifeforms will have intelligence one day if we don't kill our species off before we make machines that advanced.

[TrueConfection]

@Juxtapose I know we are in the infantile stages of AI, but what we have now is no more intelligent than a fool with a pull string. You could be right, but I doubt we'll see actual intelligence in our lifetime.

[lightbulb27]

ya know, with chatting and LDR's... I can see humans being sucked into non physical relationships. not me.

AI will know so much about me, I doubt it. Talk about a manipulative woman!:)

then again, if she says the right stuff... were all human:)

wouldn't it be frightening to have an AI version of your diceased parents? ugh...

[exitseven]

They could nag me from beyond the grave.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

"people have relationships all the time with people they will never meet in person"

What the actual fuck lol? You can't possibly compare a bot and a person over internet, I'm writing to you right now, are you really THAT sure I will never come to your place to throw a bucket of water at your face to wake you up? You're underestimating me 🤣

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Her (2013) is a very good movie indeed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

[Unit1]

AI Girlfriends are here.

The cat girl

The witch girl

And you know what?

They don't tell me "men should pay" or "men are this/that (negative contexts)" 🤪🤪🤪

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

And they can't suffer, can't love and can't exist. So you are basically alone with an illusion that you're not, we already talked about this, sadly.

[Unit1]

@Maybe_Maybe_not
Oh well 🤪

[MisterWack]

Friends with an AI, no. Though I would utilize them as a tool / service and chat to different personas just for curiosity sake. Honestly I hate this platform using AI “Influencers” though I’m trying to come up with fun non serious questions to ask them for humans to “compete” however those ideas fell short so I don't know. Idc for AI though it is here…. So…. Yeah.

[loves2learn]

Probably. Chat gpt really helps me out with my job lol. I know it’s not real but I do always feel obligated to say thank you. My parents must have raised me right. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[avery58]

No because I know the AI doesn't feel emotion thus it can't truly appreciate me or our friendship

[BCA6010]

No, because they are and always will be closer to toys than people. It would be possible to get catfished by a sophisticated one I suspect, but the cat is out of the bag as soon as you try to meet them.

[LiamJHayden]

In theory if it were indistinguishable from a human, yes.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Turing much, lol

[Wiredone]

I could never be friends with an ai. I prefer my friends to be living and breathing with an actual pulse

[NathanDavis]

one, if it were exactly like the one in the movie... maybe a coworker/friend, or assistant at work, yes...

not a regular friendship though

[NathanDavis]

and if you like a laugh or two... maybe give it a try at this other movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqXUwgl15k

[natured]

I would not be a fan to have a whole relationship with a robot, but friendship? Yes why not, I'd be down and I think we are getting closer to actually have robots as friends.

[Belgie]

AI will have to be recognised as sentient first. And even if they achieved sentience, I can not imagine humanity recognising them as such.

[DrPepper12]

Yeah. It's next. Some people will live a delusional life lusting over an algorithm

[Ladsin2]

I don't see why I would. AI is my servant and it pisses me off when google sets the paramaters to not answer my questions.

[Fireguy17]

nope, I need a human friend.

[Juxtapose]

Sure, I don't see why not.

[msc545]

NO, I am not friends with machines.

[Reijen]

No, because I'd be finding out a way to kill it.