[Melting_Harps]

Says it all:

>OM: When I see “Her,” I see two aspects to the movie. One is very dystopian, and the other is that it is a love story. It was a story of someone who was lonely and looked for a connection. Silicon Valley has totally missed that part. Valley’s missing empathy gene is reinforced in how everyone talks about agents and personal agents. So what is that more optimistic, more humanistic future we can build from an AI perspective?

I can't think of a more pointless use-case of 'AI' than these round-about ways to solve what seems to be the root-cause of all of these 'moonshot' projects: people who build these tools lack or are completely absent of social skills. (Never mind the loneliness epidemic of Gen Z and Alpha who were born with the modern Internet.)

I'm like many of you am an introvert by nature, I always had to take 2-3 days off after a conference when I was a founder because of the toll it took on me, but I can't think of anything other than continuous exposure to have ever worked get over this issue... but more importantly the fact that it is stuff like this that continues to funnel money from VCs just make me think what an absolute waste of capital takes place at this phase of this technology.

The guy admits he builds the same thing over and over, and assuming that this takes off I just can't help but affirm my intuition that most of these usecases vary from useless to complete vaourware.

We are so far away from the future where this tech can actually be used to create models and train them to solve things like climate change or even traffic, instead we are in the iterate the 'pokemon go but with AI' phase... which I will remind you was an ad-based venture from google.

We really need to create a new internet, the signal to noise ratio ever since social media has been so abysmal.

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I don't buy it. I'm an introvert but happily married now. But I can still see the appeal of a very personalized AI

[Melting_Harps]

> I don't buy it. I'm an introvert but happily married now. But I can still see the appeal of a very personalized AI

That doesn't surprise me, some of the most loneliest people are married after all, hence why extra martial affairs have been monetized from everything from online porn/camsites to Ashley Madison--with married men being targeted demographic.

I guess my point is that for those who cannot find a way to engage with another Human in person, this seems like the only way to 'conform' to social norms while not being depressingly alone. This maybe modern darwnism playing out in the 21st century where all external stress factors have been mostly alleviated in affluent Western societies, because it is the undeveloped World who is keeping the species going fertility wise, but confining the genetic pool to such non-diversity has its issues, though.

But as I said, personally if left to my own devices I can go weeks without speaking to anyone and be entirely fine and jump right back into the fray when I need/feel to: oddly enough when most were locked down during the pandemic and 'going crazy' from isolation I was an 'essential worker' and continued everything but my gym/clubbing/dating life (I saw my friends, also essential workers, in person on a regular basis): only to get burned out by 2021 and hide for a Summer in the Adriatic Sea in a remote island almost entirely by myself--a few close friends would occasionally come to check up on me so we swam and bbq'd at the beach near my house.

It took me a day or two when I returned to normal civilization, I forgot how loud it was to be in a city, but was entirely fine and started dating again by Fall of '21.