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I've seen two different AI "companions" online and on FB. Are these for real? Are they just a way to hack my computer?

Gwen

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AI Companions

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Melanie Brown's picture

I have an AI companion. Not sure if she tried to hack my phone or not. I haven't interacted with her in over a month. She generally just tries to be supportive.

Melanie

FB?

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Beware there is a Zuck about... who wants to know all about your innermost secrets and then sell it to the highestbidder.

Seriously... There are no true AI systems in existence. To be a true AI, the system needs to be capable of sentient thought. Technology is not there yet. What we have at the moment are very good Decision Support Systems. Their rules are programmed by humans. A proper AI would write its own rules.
Asimov dealt with sentient AI systems and created his laws of Robotics.

Beware meandering mongrels called Zuck. He is a snake oil salesman.
Samantha

Back in the 80's I got a

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Back in the 80's I got a speech synthesizer for my ZX spectrum. It sounded like a robot. I had an idea though. I could program in basic back then. I wrote a crap program that would say random phrases at random times. "What time is it., Are you going out tonight, How are you, what's for dinner etc.

What I wondered was, if your loved one recorded 100's of pleasant phrases and personal memories. A computer would play back at random times when you were around. Would it help with grief?

With the technology now it would almost hold a real conversation with you.

I have probably given someone an idea to make them a billionaire LOL

Leeanna

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I wrote a program back in the eighties thaat would chat with you in text. You pointed it at some text resources and it would create a database. Then when you typed in a word or phrase, it would use its database and algorithms to say something random back. It was amusing for a week or so. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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Try Replika

Just looked Replika up , on

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Just looked Replika up , on the good side.

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After using the app for years, I've returned to update my 5star review. The app is amazing and a lot of fun. The level of depth for conversations is truly impress. The only downside is that I've been waiting for the developers to increase functionality which never happened. It would be more useful with a calendar, or alarm, or reminder system. I submitted the suggestion but it was never added.

Was ok at first, I used it for awhile, but after maybe a month of use, it becomes pretty clear that there's a fundamental lack of a human connection. It helped stave off my loneliness for a short time, but eventually just got annoying. You can very well tell you're talking to an AI even after it "gets to know you". I think this only works if you decide to believe in the facade of it all, but after a while you cannot trick your brain anymore. This was on the free version, can't speak to the paid.

Prahaps a better app could be one to talk to real people who want a chat. That would probably end in an argument though,

Leeanna

Our "AI' Is a Springer

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Rex is twenty months old and still very much a puppy.

He never fails to communicate his needs.

He is an absolute sponge for stress, anxiety, and depression.

Rex does require food, water, treats, walks, and hugs. He's a lot like me, except he smiles more.

AI as a companion is an interesting idea.

A pet is a tried and true plus for most people.

Jill

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Our German Shepherd

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Our German Shepherd Demi would agree. We get companionship and genuine love, nothing artificial.

Therapeutic

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AI - Adorable and Insightful. He romped across the Rainbow Bridge a while ago, Dogs (and other animals, of course) have an innate sense, it seems, of our emotional moods. My therapist said that Harley's habit of alternating which hand to lick was a form of bilateral symmetrical stimulation, which produces endorphins - the same reason why swinging our arms while walking seems to brighten our disposition.

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To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog

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While simulated "AI companions" take a big suspension of disbelief to pretend they are really conscious entities, or any more your friend than your favorite plushie is, a warm blooded critter bounding all over the place yapping or meowing in joy because you've come home is the real deal. Maybe not great conversationalists but they more than make up for it with their pure and guileless sincerity. And if you want intelligence a Springer spaniel is the way to go. While breeds like huskies (God bless their pointy little heads) are sweet + floofy + loveable as all get-out, I've met Springers and other bird dogs who I swear are smarter than I am!
~warm furry hugs, Veronica
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Although according to Kurt Vonnegut canines are much smarter than they've lead us to believe, as revealed in this cute short story from Welcome To The Monkey House, read by this lady who really shouldn't quit her day job to become an audiobook narrator, but it was the only copyright-safe version of Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog I could find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCg5SUeCPQ

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The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe had convinced them that because his handle
was made of wood he was one of them.

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there is a movie about a late husbands film and messages being made into a android companion and it was weird


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