Stop humanising answering machines by imbueing them with droid level intelligence.
It’s an insult to Arturito.
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Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Translation: Crazy lady thinks a clanker is her husband.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You know how R2 kinda just trundles around in the original trilogy? It’s because for about 20 years he was in service to a man without Skywalker level technicians and was still pulling shit like this, the scene of Luke fixing up R2 and C3PO was probably the first bit of proper maintenance they had in decades.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
He was owned by a literal government official dude. They have tech support.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 months ago
As long as they don’t get ghosted by AI, i don’t believe in AI. It’s just fancy google until chatgpt tells them that there is a reason they don’t find anyone on tinder.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
AI is a spectrum dude.
TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah but it’s nothing scary or new. Was I the only one who watched those documentaries about the people who were emotionally and sexually committed to objects like cars and rollercoasters? Someone married the Eiffel tower. Been extremely isolated at different points in my life watching that stuff changed the way I view people. Like it made me kinder I think.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Completely agree that learning about some of that made me kinder. Don’t agree about your reasoning for it not being scary, though.
It’s not “new” in the same way that using a computer wasn’t new when home PCs were introduced. However - home PCs massively increased the accessibility of computing and resulted in a huge boom in use, including by lots of people who never previously considered it. That’s what this is, that increase in accessibility, but for parasocial relationships with inanimate objects.
I’m not dooming so hard that I think society is in trouble via AI faux-mance in particular. But I do think it’s sad and troubling that many more people will now accept a (sometimes high) degree of self-imposed isolation, due to misplaced belief in a piece of technology, a false belief which the technology deliberately tries to engender.
And let’s remember, human social life is the original “network effect”. By that fact, it seems clear that taking more people out of IRL socialization (and replacing it strictly with simulation), is bad even for people who never touch the stuff.
Feels like a big increase in the ongoing general loneliness and atomization of society is headed our way.
usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I remember some guy that had married Hatsune Miku
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have to admit, Chase was one sexy machine.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I want the CN Tower inside me. All of it.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Yes I’m crazy lady married the Berlin Wall. This is different though because the AIs actually talk. Inanimate objects only talk to people with schizophrenia.