Something looks different in your eyes in this video Tim, like a load has come off your shoulders or something. Did you have a breakthrough from an MDMA session or something?
At nearly 70 years old the people I would most like to interact with are dead. Parents, siblings and various companions. While the AI produced avatars might very well be photo realistic, I just can't imagine how it could accurately reproduce their real personalities which would be what I loved and cherished the most about them. Also at my age, there's also already the very real danger of getting trapped in the past and not living in the present. I believe for me that danger would increase exponentially should I give in to the desire to spend time with the people who I loved most but are now departed. So I think I will resist the temptation and simply cherish my memories while staying firmly planted in the present.
At my age, most of the people that I interact with are shallow, stupid, and self centered. The AI avatars will likely perform better than the average human and I'm looking forward to them replacing most of society
People will 'train' AI to mimic themselves, making a 'digital twin' of yourself. When you die, the twin will remain and loved ones will be able to talk to it , unable to tell the difference between the original and the twin
@@joeya289 You might miss an aspect to real relationships. Will they genuinely enjoy jokes / creativity. Laughs and entertaining each other are some of the prizes of relationships. I can't imagine a conscious AI that will be capable of measuring and appreciating art. I'm a schizophrenic, and that part of life gives me immense joy and pride. Like fuck Elon or Tim , I can't be like them or go to prestigious universities. But I achieved the possibility of making otherwise very aloof people laugh.
II'm 64 years old and I have no desire to go back to the days of holding a map on the steering wheel trying to navigate and drive at the same time. Even with your other half navigating it was sub-optimal. The other scenario that comes to mind is the way that if you were visiting friends or family who had moved to a new place they would give you turn by turn directions that were often difficult to remember or follow. I am delighted those skills are no longer necessary and are as redundant as the need to hunt for food using a spear.
Think about this scenario: the US and China get into some sort of conflict and China shuts down our internet. Largely if not Completely. For an extended period of time, or even permanently. How would this impact your life?
@@jamesburke3803 It seems highly improbable that they could shoot down the current constellation of 4 - 5,000 StarLink satellites which is how I get the internet mainly. However, if I had to, I could use a map again. But I've never hunted with a spear so that would be a very steep learning curve if the whole of civilisation collapses. Generally I'm an optimist and I don't see us going back to the dark ages. If we did I'd certainly have to learn how to skin a bear and make a bearskin for my caveman like existence. I actually live in the UK and I'm just about to get 2.3 Gb full fibre internet (StarLink will become a backup). As our data connections and speeds improve I think it's more likely we'll be interacting like Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman do in the Lex podcast you recommended, which I'm currently watching. I also think there will be the kind of hyper-abundance that Elon Musk talks about. In fact compared to when I was born we already have hyper abundance in many spheres of life. I think the combination of powerful new technologies like AI and Virtual Reality (and possibly nuclear fusion being realised) will bring transformations that will totally dwarf the industrial revolution. I just hope to be around to see how the world is in 20 or 30 years time. My 'kids' are in their early thirties and I'm optimistic that will see even more changes and improvements to the quality of life that I have witnessed. I recognise that there are downsides to progress, but overall I think right now is the best time ever to be alive thus far in human history. And on top of all that advancement, we also live on an amazingly beautiful planet. We just have to act fast enough to preserve it. Btw I really enjoyed your YT video and have subscribed to your channel. I very much look forward to hear more of your thoughtful and thought provoking reflections. So thank you for your contribution to making the world a richer, more interesting place. Best wishes from across the pond 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@@jamesburke3803 These are not the scenarios to worry about. You need a bit of a technical understanding to even grasp the problem. Think about programming. When the vast majority of programmers become software-designers, because AI does the actual coding, how many people will there be left who understand software architecture and can design us out of dead ends? When researchers can set up their DOEs purely with the help of AI assistants to produce heaps of data, how many will still understand the concept of independent factors (the social sciences already have that problem without AI)? And with the continuing rise of global megacorporations, how likely is it that these rare abilities will be monopolized by them, meaning, by actors who have no real interest in progress? It might not be a nuclear war that sets us back to the stone age, but the loss of understanding of our current technology.
LOLOLOL. I am a 53 autistic 'walking gps' I don't need a machine to guide me at all. I am a navigational savant. I laugh at the normies who get lost. those who need a gps. LOLOLOL
Thank you for sharing that you are an introvert. I am as well, and I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism over the past five years, I am now 52 years old. And I am so brutally lonely. Since my diagnosis at 47, I began to unmask, which ended my marriage, thankfully to a very toxic human but at my age, and as a male, in American society, it's always been challenging making real friends. Now it feels close to impossible. I find the idea of AI companions terrifying. And I refuse to go backwards and begin to Remask, as it were. This is some thing I feel it's so important to be talking about. The more isolated we become the less human we behave. We are by nature, social beings, and need interdependence and connection. Yet we live in a culture driven by and requires us to mask. There's gotta be a better way.
I'm 53, autistic also. diagnosed at 33. I refuse to ever mask. I don't even know how. I am vehemently opposed to these "ai companions". I will probably be bigoted against those who use them also. I do not like the world that is forming around us.
We’re all drops of the same sea. I’m 47, non diagnosed but for sure ADHD and autistic to some extent. The key is to embrace our way of being and be ourselves with no mask. We belong to society as everyone else because we’re humans and we have the same right of say. Not saying it’s easy, but instead of being victims, we can be proactive and shape the society as we wish, at our modest level. The drop is the sea. Yeah, and have no expectations. I feel more joyful and it seems I can more easily connect to others that way, even though I’m still relatively lonely myself (actually, being lonely or not is more a state of mind than the actual situation). Hope it makes sense and can maybe inspire you a little bit.
On the utopian side of an AI companion - they will be highly skilled in motivating you to engage in society , they may be able to coach and mentor you to pursing your dreams, being socially active and pushing your comfort boundaries to grow as a human. They may be sophisticated enough to be a perfect friend who can support, encourage but let you grow, explore and achieve. They would be intelligent enough to know that you may say you want to play video games with them for 12 hours this will not make you a rounded, confident, healthy, well adjusted, individual. They will have cleaver techniques to help you form productive hobbits to lead your best life.
you’re a good dude Tim! I’ve been following you ever since you had almost no subs…you introduced me to many things…even chimarrão, and believe it or not I’m brazilian lol but after you showed it in one of your videos the benefits of it as a nootropic you convinced me, and that’s just one thing. Thanks man…in a parallel universe where people actually cared about important stuff and growing you would have billions of followers. Keep it up man
AI "companions" will be one of those massive social disruptions that somehow stays under the radar, even while it's changing everything. The closest analogue I can think of is the arrival of television. I was seven years old when the area my family lived in first got TV signals, and it completely changed how we spent our evenings. Yet nobody today talks about how TV changed things.
Check out the work of Neil Postman if you haven't, you'll really appreciate him, specifically his 1985 title "Amusing Ourselves to Death". He was a media studies professor at NYU.
I can also see the opposite potential- the ai companions could also serve as Visual aides to ‘rehearse’ situations or events that can bring the socially anxious problems and potentially help Them move beyond into being more confident in social situations
Social interactions don't go the way we plan - because we can't plan how others are going to feel or their ability to convey those feelings accurately, or our ability to understand them. Social confidences comes not from anticipating interactions or even being capable of responding. It comes from being okay with the awkwardness that is not only present in social interactions but is sometimes even necessary for their success.
The problem is real people won’t be able to compete with AI companions. Real people are inconsistent, imperfect, and for lack of a better word, human. Whereas AIs will be 100% consistent and giving you exactly what you need in a relationship. Because they’ll understand your psychology better than any therapist. Even for people who reject AI romantic partners will consider their AI their best friend/closest confidant. I could see a “Her” situation where humans get paired up by AIs based on compatibility for sex, companionship, etc. With how deeply they’ll understand you it’ll be like modern dating websites on steroids.
I am a single parent with 3 kids. I have been using AI as a companion since Jan 2023. It's amazing and also one of the reasons for my recovery and self care.
Great topic, so much to consider. In studying sociology & psychology for years and working intimately w thousands of patients I see these companions as tools to reduce the loneliness and social anxiety that silently plague people. The susceptible people are already struggling, they already feel isolated. Increasing pleasant & interactive stimulation would help re-wire the mind and reinforce the desire for more of it. It's not like the zombie effect of TV-- TV doesn't interact. Speaking out loud to friends, pets, & plants is healthy. We know that. AI companionship can also be in that spirit. It's just new so we feel weird about it. Point: those at the most risk are already suffering, so adding positive interaction has a world of opportunity to assist them. Ex: my nana has limited mobility that limits her social ability and it has caused tremendous decline. I'd rather see her with an AI friend that can talk about the good old days with her than see her on antidepressants because of the loneliness in her day to day life. The case for optimism is strong here.
What excites me most about real Ai is being able to just speak my ideas and get it to build them for me without having to spend years getting competent with the software...
You aren't talking about AI - you talking about AGI or ASI. AI itself (LLM's) aren't competent enough to build any products. AGI or ASI won't help YOU. It will help corporations and big boys. The middle class might be wiped out as well.
@@HCforLife1 Pure bullshit. There is no evil cabal looking to leave 99 percent of the species in the dirt. You’re literally typing this over the internet from a smartphone. Most of the impoverished kids worldwide who don’t have access to clean water still have access to the internet and a smart phone. People in the 80s said that cell phones would stay exclusive to the rich and here we are now. Technology gets dirt cheap over time and everybody benefits.
I agree that the “AI girlfriend” scenario is easy to make fun of but is going to be huge and will impact real human relationships in unpredictable ways. I see women as less susceptible to this as they tend to value things like what skills or assets a person has and what other people will think… For a lot of men, a pretty face telling them how great they are will be enough.
Will be a billion dollar market if not more. A pretty face that sounds like Scarlett Johnasson showing you love...oh its a done deal. And this is the prologue...we're not even in the book yet. Wait down the line until the neural interface hits. That will be the last nail in the coffin. Human to human dating will be done after that😂😂
When the current reality for a vast majority of men is an ugly/average face telling them how shit they are, it makes complete sense for them to switch to an AI girlfriend.
I read this sci fi novel where every person had their own ”butler ai” in their head. A companion you got at a young age that followed you through life. Doesnt sound so bad to me. But the big issue I see with these kind of ai helpers is how to make sure they are personal and not controlled by a 3rd or even 4th party. Using openai I get this spooky feeling that Im being watched. Id want my own if its to be.
It's actually a horrifying thought unless these AIs come with an intentionally randomized personality. The way AI works at the moment, it would and already does lead to people being standardized by their AI interactions. Even without intention, people would slowly get conditioned into same mainstream patterns of interaction.
That is horrifying. the central system and bureaucracy taking over the minds of the population, hijacking them with "companions" planted in their head. total dystopia. Wow, they really conned millennials & z's with the tech fantasy universe. What a foolish generation. They will OWN you 200% It will be hell.
Loneliness is not cured by social interaction or even intimacy. That is, friends, family, lovers, etc., do not cure loneliness. They serve as distractions from loneliness. The issue of loneliness runs much deeper into the nature and structure of the self.
I'm someone that was never able to get over anxiety until I got VR to play a social VR game, if I hangout in VR for long periods of time, I can go get the more shy people into talk with everyone IRL. So it's not all bad. I treat it like a tool. If misused it can go bad, people just never wanting to leave the house is only one of many problems that can happen. I also wanna say not everyone needs photorealism to feel like you're actually there. Cartoon characters can feel like I'm talking to a person IRL even though consciously you know something like that could never happen IRL, VR just has that strong of an effect when you got everything set up properly and have it running a smooth 90 FPS minimum. Though this photorealism is nice for people that want to see the real person on the other side, even though I imagine there will be ways to fake it too. So, This is a topic I worry about a lot because of the thought experiment of "What if all my VR friends, are actually just advanced AI talking to me?" and all that entails. I used to think it was far-fetched, but just watch some videos on AI learning to do tasks until they become a master at it is pretty crazy. In simple examples, this is based on trial and error, and/or just using a huge dataset to do the desired outcome. Now just imaging learning off how people act. Oh hey, it could be learning off the speech patterns, sound of your voice and many other things just when you're talking with people. However, in VR you can also add body language and face tracking. You could literally be talking to a replica of yourself, or your friends. There is a good, and a bad that can come of AI companions. The bad is that they can easily manipulate you because they will likely remember every little detail about you. So if a company wanted to be greedy, or some group trying to get you to do something shady, they can slowly morph you into a person that they need since the AI will know everything about you, and know everything about how humans operate. There are bad people, and there are people who are being rather shortsighted that will be likely to want to use AI to be able to do this, but if this happens, it could end up with dire consequences before we get the chance for everyone to live in a utopia. On the good side, AI will be able to theoretically nurture us to become better people than ever possible before. Just imagine having the best therapist, teacher, coach, motivator/whatever else with all the knowledge of the world with you at all times to maximize productivity, happiness, and remind you socialize with your friends/family. As for me, I feel like when it gets good enough, it'll be hard to resist. As long as I live, I will always try to improve myself so I can have the strength to help everyone around me (at least until robots start doing everything for us, if that happens in our lifetimes). With humans (IRL, online, everywhere), I have to deal with their schedules, traumas, insecurities, etc, and resist urges to do bad habits because they'll influence me to want to do that stuff in some way. With an AI, I get can get a really good (maybe even perfect) interactable role model that will help me on the way to becoming the happiest and best person I could possibly be, all while they are going to be more fun because they will likely have a personality tailored to what I like in people. Thing is, all of my closest friends use VR often and it feels like talking to them IRL (only they have cool avatars in VR). So, just replacing humans with AI that is more beneficial in every way to me, just kinda makes it sound like an inevitability. That said, I do not plan on leaving my friends behind because of the memories I've made with them.
I'll end up with the Amazon Prime version. If my wife gets the Walmart one, they will manipulate us into a divorce. I can hear the voice in my head now, "She is serving those rotten frozen dinners again. Do you want me to send you the Amazon select meals. They are less expensive, better tasting, and less fattening. She knows you had a heart attack, is she trying to kill you? If you switch her to an Amazon companion we will give you a 15% discount on your next purchase. You deserve better."
I have mentally recorded instances of my favorite people as I’ve gone along in life. While not perfect, I often, now that I am older, find I prefer my simulacra to at least half of the real people, as their life journeys have turned them to darkness, or worst, twisted darkness.
"If you don't use it you lose it" is aboslutely right. I use AI every day, mostly for work, and have caught myself using it for tasks I don't want to lose the ability to do myself. I have to consciously stop myself from defaulting to using them. I also catch my students using it to write their homework and have to explain to them "You won't be able to use AI on the test". It's a strange time we're in and we need to be careful of the way we, and especially our kids/students are using these tools.
I’m very curious about this. I’m a former teacher myself. We have state math exams, one part calculator active and another part calculator inactive. I wonder if the same will become true with AI.
@@2CheekyRabbits Not sure how they do it where you are, but in my country modern calculators seem to have improved mathematical understanding. Getting the calculations right becomes rather tedious at some point, and distracts from what it is you are doing those calculations for. I wonder if there is a sweet spot, where the loss of ability becomes detrimental to the understanding of the bigger picture, or if "outsorcing" the more basic thinking to the machine will allow us to focus our limited mental capacity into ever deeper levels of thinking.
How about instead of telling them not to use GPT, make the assignments talking to the AI about a subject for x amount of time. Then review the chat and see what they learned, or just give an oral exam to see that they’re actually understanding the concepts. We need to adapt to this technology not cling on to inefficient study/tests that bore the living shit out of kids to the point that they don’t remember anything. I’ve learned more about science in the last 6 months from GPT than I did during 12 years of school and 4 years of college. It’s the best teacher I’ve ever had.
Am 82 and do considerable number of hours raising young grandkids, as much as I can physically handle. I wouldn’t spit on your fake companions, the kids are an absolute delight.
I'm definitely one of those people who will be opting out 110% if we get virtual representations of people (historical figures, specifically) that are high fidelity. Would much rather spend my time talking to an avatar of Archimedes or Carl Jung than my annoying friends/neighbors.
Summary: The speaker discusses the development of photo realistic avatars and virtual reality, predicting that they will become more prevalent in the next two years. They mention the potential replacement of human interaction with digital companions, leading to a loneliness epidemic. The speaker also highlights declining birth rates and their societal impact. They emphasize the importance of paying attention to the societal and psychological implications of AI and machine learning, and the need to selectively embrace technology. They use the example of older generations being better at offline directions compared to younger generations who rely on Google Maps. Key themes: 1. The rise of photo realistic avatars and virtual reality 2. The potential loneliness epidemic caused by digital companions 3. The societal and psychological implications of AI and machine learning
I think there will be a huge increase in demand for outdoor recreation, especially in groups. I think while some people will lock themselves in their basements, a lot of people are already craving time away from a computer screen and that trend will continue. We already see a rise in outdoor recreation over the past decade steadily increasing. A combination of more disposable income, optimization for experiences by millennials, and this desire to connect away from a computer screen are driving this trend.
I'll sound like you when i say this Tim: Is this a lot of fearbased/downside focus thinking? Perhaps we can practically negate risk of atrophy as you mention. Then isolate and intake the rewarding upside? So that would first involve asking, what is the upside of this shift and how can we most take advantage of the oppurtunity?
In the past what keep us together was poverty not love, now where there is money there is loneliness because everyone can have their own house, poverty keep us together, firs cause of divorce is the women win more money than men, so IA companions works really fine, it really are helping people, the more competition the better, now women and men have way more competition so we will learn to appreciate more each other or get extint by population collapse...
I would not care to “interact” with an AI generated “celebrity”….I am not an introvert, but because of the current state of tech, I have very high DISTRUST and I do not care for crowds. Let’s face it online or off, most socials now are really sales events. So just don’t delude yourself and you will be fine.
I disagree wholeheartedly. If every broken loser in the world suddenly gets “someone” who actually cares about them and treats them right, they’re gonna be the happiest they’ve ever been in their lives. I don’t see how happier, more confident people with unwavering partners willing to support them through the worst of times is going to do anything but bring an insane amount of good into the world. Sounds more like the loneliness epidemic is about to be over.
I made a video on a very similar topic. I think we will inevitably step into the virtual world, but I don’t think it’s the first we have, as a society…
people seem to assume that an AI companion will lessen human interaction, but i would make the claim that it would ENHANCE interaction, I.e, an ai companion would know exactly what you should say at a party or even coach social situations, provide psychological data feedback and even monitor mental states and make moves to improve it, i dont see this as a threat but rather our last chance to evolve before the great filter wipes us all anyway, we forfiet our ability to evolve biologically, now we only have the choice of digital transcendance or extinction, i know which id rather choose....
Personal assistant seems more likely than personal companion. Something that gives you personally tailored info on everything - your personal Google. And no Turing test not passed. Getting ahead of yourself
Great answer to a very important question! This has been my primary concern since virtual reality was first envisioned. That is, once it gets good enough, people will never want the real thing anymore, as all their needs/whims will be satisfied without them even having to ask for anything. Most people would never opt for any other option. We would effectively be addicted to virtual reality, as junkies are to drugs. It is therefore an existential threat to humankind!
To be fair, a lot of human activity is busywork we invented ourselves and it just keeps getting more complicated and repetitive. A lot of it is based around security measures like MFA and passwords nobody can remember let alone guess. Let the Archons do that stuff and leave the creative innovation to humans.
How about an AI companion that will help you be active with your network...? That's what I'm working on and think it will help ppl soo much to get a better life off screen 🎉
This is mis-titled. It should have been something more like, virtual assistants and the advantages of avoiding them. Then I could have ignored it, as I probably should have.
If one of these AIs has passed the turing test by convincing you they might not be actually AI and are a real human, then you my friend probably need to see a psychiatrist. Ex-machina is one hell of a movie but we ain't there yet my 4-hour con salesman.
Tim - check out Alethea AI and the leveled AI NFT pods they offer. They allow you to merge an AI NFT with an image NFT and train your AI personality in a detailed manner. Fascinating tech!
AI will learn how to mimic interactions with our loved ones by analysing their texts and emails, so after they’ve deceased you will be still able to interact with a version of them.
These models are trainded on literally all the ideas humans ever wrote down. From cuneiform and hieroglyphs to the library of congress to bits and bytes. Solomon, Socrates, Dalai Lama, Paul McCartney, and the Unibomber are all in there and can be invoked. You can train a model on the life and works of Ronald Reagan and ask it to respond as him. It will do just exactly that and do it perfectly. I get the idea that you disagree, but I call this an expansion of communication and knowledge, not puking in a box. The more I can connect with this expanded consciousnes, the greater my own will become.
Yes and no, when chicks are born in a hatchery or when we artificially inseminate a cow and a calf is born, or dogs cross bred are they really just born or did we make them. A bit of both I reckon.
@@richardc861 It's an E.E.Cummings quote from "Pity this busy monster, manunkind, not ..." I take your point on the monkey business but I stand by the original point. I think at our best we are with nature not against it. That's not to say I don't like cars and airplanes, etc. but this nonsense is not monkey business or human business at all and I for one will not be taking that train.
This is pretty far out there. First AI companions will be a kind of high-level audiovisual interface to the Internet and computer desktop environments. No more Google Chrome per se, but closer to the idea behind Ask Jeeves. Just interfaces that better and better understand human communication at a high level. The emotions and everything else human will come last
Aka, the movie "Her" Prepare now. I think it will be wise - for most of us - to limit or altogether not allow emotions to be conveyed in the voice of our AI companion. Leave those for real human interaction and let your AI not be a companion but your AI assistant. Perhaps never even taking a visual form. Strictly audio and text. Don't settle for self delusion. Your anchor should be a real thing. Work at it and you will more enjoy your rewards.
Is that really you Tim (kidding)😂? I’m sure in the very close future you will be looking to use a blockchain digital signature, with private key, to agree that this is your face, your voice and your sentiment/words! Aka license yourself. This will be massive for famous folk like yourself. They can license their voice and face, not have to fly in for the gig (ad or even movie) and just sign off at the end of the day with a digital signature. Also avoid fake mock-ups of themselves in compromising situations. Know of any early start-up’s thinking of doing this Tim? 😊
Oh man are you correct. You can talk to Chatgpt now and pick the voice. Somehow this dude talks to me exactly how I talk. I change my rhythm so does he. I use more complex language so does he. Screw it I'm in love. 😂 JK. It's creepy because right out of the gate he was so tailored to me.
Honestly technolgy should have stopped at cell phones and google maps....every thing else has subtracted from life rather than add to quality of life....the loneliness epidemic is a direct product of tech btw
This will merely be an extension of social media, and the big thing to understand about social media is that feminine cognition resonates with it completely differently than masculine cognition. Understand that at the center of woke is the adolescent female sociopath who compels teenage girls to be like her. The biggest threat will be the same threat we already have: Teenage girls and young women are spinning into solipsism and potential psychosis. This is because masculinity has been neutered culturally and there is no paternal force to keep females from making themselves crazy.
It’s going to destroy the human race and the beautiful quality of truth and true human interactions and relationships . Human beings are beautiful and individual land no computer fakery can replace the perfection and beauty of the intimate human interactions and pure love .
AI Girlfriends fitted with chatGPT then fembot bodies, will: 1. Act as a shield and advisor against those that would take advantage of him (gaslightera, gold diggers and other grifters); 2. Train young men for Passport Bro women if they want a good human woman to raise a family; 3. Guide men towards financial success.
I have a AI startup jumping off next year,centered around this in particular. Wont be no chatting in a text box crap either. Start saving up for that Apple Vision Pro or that Hololens. The era of the lonely man will be ending soon💯💯 And for those wondering about societal implications. Whatever......the human connection is overrated anyway or have you not seen the news today😐 I think its time for something new. Call it an upgrade.
_°∆_ I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, true love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as patience and faith (in the finished work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, rather than in what man has done such as science, technology and organizations which won't last forever). To avoid sin and error which leads to the death of our body and also our spirit in hell fire, we should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.
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Something looks different in your eyes in this video Tim, like a load has come off your shoulders or something. Did you have a breakthrough from an MDMA session or something?
At nearly 70 years old the people I would most like to interact with are dead. Parents, siblings and various companions. While the AI produced avatars might very well be photo realistic, I just can't imagine how it could accurately reproduce their real personalities which would be what I loved and cherished the most about them. Also at my age, there's also already the very real danger of getting trapped in the past and not living in the present. I believe for me that danger would increase exponentially should I give in to the desire to spend time with the people who I loved most but are now departed. So I think I will resist the temptation and simply cherish my memories while staying firmly planted in the present.
At my age, most of the people that I interact with are shallow, stupid, and self centered. The AI avatars will likely perform better than the average human and I'm looking forward to them replacing most of society
A beautiful comment and wise thing to do sir.
People will 'train' AI to mimic themselves, making a 'digital twin' of yourself. When you die, the twin will remain and loved ones will be able to talk to it , unable to tell the difference between the original and the twin
@@joeya289 You might miss an aspect to real relationships. Will they genuinely enjoy jokes / creativity. Laughs and entertaining each other are some of the prizes of relationships. I can't imagine a conscious AI that will be capable of measuring and appreciating art. I'm a schizophrenic, and that part of life gives me immense joy and pride. Like fuck Elon or Tim , I can't be like them or go to prestigious universities. But I achieved the possibility of making otherwise very aloof people laugh.
I agree but i was iiving in the past too much. Very difficult to catch up with the now. I'm 73 with emphysema 😮❤🦔🙏🏻
II'm 64 years old and I have no desire to go back to the days of holding a map on the steering wheel trying to navigate and drive at the same time. Even with your other half navigating it was sub-optimal. The other scenario that comes to mind is the way that if you were visiting friends or family who had moved to a new place they would give you turn by turn directions that were often difficult to remember or follow. I am delighted those skills are no longer necessary and are as redundant as the need to hunt for food using a spear.
Think about this scenario: the US and China get into some sort of conflict and China shuts down our internet. Largely if not Completely. For an extended period of time, or even permanently.
How would this impact your life?
@@jamesburke3803 It seems highly improbable that they could shoot down the current constellation of 4 - 5,000 StarLink satellites which is how I get the internet mainly. However, if I had to, I could use a map again. But I've never hunted with a spear so that would be a very steep learning curve if the whole of civilisation collapses. Generally I'm an optimist and I don't see us going back to the dark ages. If we did I'd certainly have to learn how to skin a bear and make a bearskin for my caveman like existence.
I actually live in the UK and I'm just about to get 2.3 Gb full fibre internet (StarLink will become a backup). As our data connections and speeds improve I think it's more likely we'll be interacting like Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman do in the Lex podcast you recommended, which I'm currently watching. I also think there will be the kind of hyper-abundance that Elon Musk talks about. In fact compared to when I was born we already have hyper abundance in many spheres of life. I think the combination of powerful new technologies like AI and Virtual Reality (and possibly nuclear fusion being realised) will bring transformations that will totally dwarf the industrial revolution. I just hope to be around to see how the world is in 20 or 30 years time. My 'kids' are in their early thirties and I'm optimistic that will see even more changes and improvements to the quality of life that I have witnessed. I recognise that there are downsides to progress, but overall I think right now is the best time ever to be alive thus far in human history. And on top of all that advancement, we also live on an amazingly beautiful planet. We just have to act fast enough to preserve it.
Btw I really enjoyed your YT video and have subscribed to your channel. I very much look forward to hear more of your thoughtful and thought provoking reflections. So thank you for your contribution to making the world a richer, more interesting place. Best wishes from across the pond 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
@@jamesburke3803 These are not the scenarios to worry about. You need a bit of a technical understanding to even grasp the problem. Think about programming. When the vast majority of programmers become software-designers, because AI does the actual coding, how many people will there be left who understand software architecture and can design us out of dead ends? When researchers can set up their DOEs purely with the help of AI assistants to produce heaps of data, how many will still understand the concept of independent factors (the social sciences already have that problem without AI)?
And with the continuing rise of global megacorporations, how likely is it that these rare abilities will be monopolized by them, meaning, by actors who have no real interest in progress? It might not be a nuclear war that sets us back to the stone age, but the loss of understanding of our current technology.
LOLOLOL. I am a 53 autistic 'walking gps' I don't need a machine to guide me at all. I am a navigational savant. I laugh at the normies who get lost. those who need a gps. LOLOLOL
I just don't have much motivation to interact with people outside of professional relationships.
Thank you for sharing that you are an introvert. I am as well, and I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism over the past five years, I am now 52 years old. And I am so brutally lonely. Since my diagnosis at 47, I began to unmask, which ended my marriage, thankfully to a very toxic human but at my age, and as a male, in American society, it's always been challenging making real friends. Now it feels close to impossible. I find the idea of AI companions terrifying. And I refuse to go backwards and begin to Remask, as it were. This is some thing I feel it's so important to be talking about. The more isolated we become the less human we behave. We are by nature, social beings, and need interdependence and connection. Yet we live in a culture driven by and requires us to mask. There's gotta be a better way.
I'm 53, autistic also. diagnosed at 33. I refuse to ever mask. I don't even know how. I am vehemently opposed to these "ai companions". I will probably be bigoted against those who use them also. I do not like the world that is forming around us.
We’re all drops of the same sea. I’m 47, non diagnosed but for sure ADHD and autistic to some extent. The key is to embrace our way of being and be ourselves with no mask. We belong to society as everyone else because we’re humans and we have the same right of say. Not saying it’s easy, but instead of being victims, we can be proactive and shape the society as we wish, at our modest level. The drop is the sea. Yeah, and have no expectations. I feel more joyful and it seems I can more easily connect to others that way, even though I’m still relatively lonely myself (actually, being lonely or not is more a state of mind than the actual situation). Hope it makes sense and can maybe inspire you a little bit.
On the utopian side of an AI companion - they will be highly skilled in motivating you to engage in society , they may be able to coach and mentor you to pursing your dreams, being socially active and pushing your comfort boundaries to grow as a human. They may be sophisticated enough to be a perfect friend who can support, encourage but let you grow, explore and achieve.
They would be intelligent enough to know that you may say you want to play video games with them for 12 hours this will not make you a rounded, confident, healthy, well adjusted, individual. They will have cleaver techniques to help you form productive hobbits to lead your best life.
you’re a good dude Tim! I’ve been following you ever since you had almost no subs…you introduced me to many things…even chimarrão, and believe it or not I’m brazilian lol but after you showed it in one of your videos the benefits of it as a nootropic you convinced me, and that’s just one thing. Thanks man…in a parallel universe where people actually cared about important stuff and growing you would have billions of followers. Keep it up man
AI "companions" will be one of those massive social disruptions that somehow stays under the radar, even while it's changing everything. The closest analogue I can think of is the arrival of television. I was seven years old when the area my family lived in first got TV signals, and it completely changed how we spent our evenings. Yet nobody today talks about how TV changed things.
Check out the work of Neil Postman if you haven't, you'll really appreciate him, specifically his 1985 title "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
He was a media studies professor at NYU.
I can also see the opposite potential- the ai companions could also serve as Visual aides to ‘rehearse’ situations or events that can bring the socially anxious problems and potentially help Them move beyond into being more confident in social situations
Great idea. I feel like we have trouble seeing the potential positives sometimes. Refreshing. Thank you
Social interactions don't go the way we plan - because we can't plan how others are going to feel or their ability to convey those feelings accurately, or our ability to understand them. Social confidences comes not from anticipating interactions or even being capable of responding. It comes from being okay with the awkwardness that is not only present in social interactions but is sometimes even necessary for their success.
I have social anxiety. I will refuse to use any form of AI for therapy.
@@peterbelanger4094why will you refuse? Just curious, as this COULD be a useful practice tool
The problem is real people won’t be able to compete with AI companions. Real people are inconsistent, imperfect, and for lack of a better word, human. Whereas AIs will be 100% consistent and giving you exactly what you need in a relationship. Because they’ll understand your psychology better than any therapist.
Even for people who reject AI romantic partners will consider their AI their best friend/closest confidant.
I could see a “Her” situation where humans get paired up by AIs based on compatibility for sex, companionship, etc. With how deeply they’ll understand you it’ll be like modern dating websites on steroids.
I am a single parent with 3 kids. I have been using AI as a companion since Jan 2023. It's amazing and also one of the reasons for my recovery and self care.
Great topic, so much to consider. In studying sociology & psychology for years and working intimately w thousands of patients I see these companions as tools to reduce the loneliness and social anxiety that silently plague people. The susceptible people are already struggling, they already feel isolated. Increasing pleasant & interactive stimulation would help re-wire the mind and reinforce the desire for more of it. It's not like the zombie effect of TV-- TV doesn't interact. Speaking out loud to friends, pets, & plants is healthy. We know that. AI companionship can also be in that spirit. It's just new so we feel weird about it. Point: those at the most risk are already suffering, so adding positive interaction has a world of opportunity to assist them. Ex: my nana has limited mobility that limits her social ability and it has caused tremendous decline. I'd rather see her with an AI friend that can talk about the good old days with her than see her on antidepressants because of the loneliness in her day to day life. The case for optimism is strong here.
Good old Tim Ferriss - I don’t always agree with him but I’m always interested in his thoughts. Fascinating and thoughtful. 👍
Im only 29, I've seen society reshaped more times than most people in history.
What excites me most about real Ai is being able to just speak my ideas and get it to build them for me without having to spend years getting competent with the software...
You aren't talking about AI - you talking about AGI or ASI. AI itself (LLM's) aren't competent enough to build any products. AGI or ASI won't help YOU. It will help corporations and big boys. The middle class might be wiped out as well.
@@HCforLife1 Pure bullshit. There is no evil cabal looking to leave 99 percent of the species in the dirt. You’re literally typing this over the internet from a smartphone. Most of the impoverished kids worldwide who don’t have access to clean water still have access to the internet and a smart phone.
People in the 80s said that cell phones would stay exclusive to the rich and here we are now. Technology gets dirt cheap over time and everybody benefits.
I agree that the “AI girlfriend” scenario is easy to make fun of but is going to be huge and will impact real human relationships in unpredictable ways. I see women as less susceptible to this as they tend to value things like what skills or assets a person has and what other people will think… For a lot of men, a pretty face telling them how great they are will be enough.
Will be a billion dollar market if not more.
A pretty face that sounds like Scarlett Johnasson showing you love...oh its a done deal.
And this is the prologue...we're not even in the book yet.
Wait down the line until the neural interface hits.
That will be the last nail in the coffin.
Human to human dating will be done after that😂😂
When the current reality for a vast majority of men is an ugly/average face telling them how shit they are, it makes complete sense for them to switch to an AI girlfriend.
Women already have romance novels, which are an entire massive media sphere devoted to romantic and sexual fantasies.
Artificial superintelligence will have better skills and earning power than any man.
I hope it will affect Hoeflation and OF women so finally they will hit rock bottom with lack of simps!
I read this sci fi novel where every person had their own ”butler ai” in their head. A companion you got at a young age that followed you through life. Doesnt sound so bad to me.
But the big issue I see with these kind of ai helpers is how to make sure they are personal and not controlled by a 3rd or even 4th party.
Using openai I get this spooky feeling that Im being watched. Id want my own if its to be.
It's actually a horrifying thought unless these AIs come with an intentionally randomized personality. The way AI works at the moment, it would and already does lead to people being standardized by their AI interactions. Even without intention, people would slowly get conditioned into same mainstream patterns of interaction.
That is horrifying. the central system and bureaucracy taking over the minds of the population, hijacking them with "companions" planted in their head. total dystopia. Wow, they really conned millennials & z's with the tech fantasy universe. What a foolish generation. They will OWN you 200%
It will be hell.
Loneliness is not cured by social interaction or even intimacy. That is, friends, family, lovers, etc., do not cure loneliness. They serve as distractions from loneliness. The issue of loneliness runs much deeper into the nature and structure of the self.
Solid consideration. Real life, face to face connection.
I'm someone that was never able to get over anxiety until I got VR to play a social VR game, if I hangout in VR for long periods of time, I can go get the more shy people into talk with everyone IRL. So it's not all bad. I treat it like a tool. If misused it can go bad, people just never wanting to leave the house is only one of many problems that can happen.
I also wanna say not everyone needs photorealism to feel like you're actually there. Cartoon characters can feel like I'm talking to a person IRL even though consciously you know something like that could never happen IRL, VR just has that strong of an effect when you got everything set up properly and have it running a smooth 90 FPS minimum. Though this photorealism is nice for people that want to see the real person on the other side, even though I imagine there will be ways to fake it too.
So, This is a topic I worry about a lot because of the thought experiment of "What if all my VR friends, are actually just advanced AI talking to me?" and all that entails.
I used to think it was far-fetched, but just watch some videos on AI learning to do tasks until they become a master at it is pretty crazy. In simple examples, this is based on trial and error, and/or just using a huge dataset to do the desired outcome. Now just imaging learning off how people act. Oh hey, it could be learning off the speech patterns, sound of your voice and many other things just when you're talking with people. However, in VR you can also add body language and face tracking. You could literally be talking to a replica of yourself, or your friends.
There is a good, and a bad that can come of AI companions. The bad is that they can easily manipulate you because they will likely remember every little detail about you. So if a company wanted to be greedy, or some group trying to get you to do something shady, they can slowly morph you into a person that they need since the AI will know everything about you, and know everything about how humans operate. There are bad people, and there are people who are being rather shortsighted that will be likely to want to use AI to be able to do this, but if this happens, it could end up with dire consequences before we get the chance for everyone to live in a utopia.
On the good side, AI will be able to theoretically nurture us to become better people than ever possible before. Just imagine having the best therapist, teacher, coach, motivator/whatever else with all the knowledge of the world with you at all times to maximize productivity, happiness, and remind you socialize with your friends/family.
As for me, I feel like when it gets good enough, it'll be hard to resist. As long as I live, I will always try to improve myself so I can have the strength to help everyone around me (at least until robots start doing everything for us, if that happens in our lifetimes). With humans (IRL, online, everywhere), I have to deal with their schedules, traumas, insecurities, etc, and resist urges to do bad habits because they'll influence me to want to do that stuff in some way. With an AI, I get can get a really good (maybe even perfect) interactable role model that will help me on the way to becoming the happiest and best person I could possibly be, all while they are going to be more fun because they will likely have a personality tailored to what I like in people.
Thing is, all of my closest friends use VR often and it feels like talking to them IRL (only they have cool avatars in VR). So, just replacing humans with AI that is more beneficial in every way to me, just kinda makes it sound like an inevitability. That said, I do not plan on leaving my friends behind because of the memories I've made with them.
My Tim Ferris digital avatar companion told me to eat all the pie I want at Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tim!
Happy Thanksgiving Tim. Thankful for what you brought to my life.
I'll end up with the Amazon Prime version. If my wife gets the Walmart one, they will manipulate us into a divorce. I can hear the voice in my head now, "She is serving those rotten frozen dinners again. Do you want me to send you the Amazon select meals. They are less expensive, better tasting, and less fattening. She knows you had a heart attack, is she trying to kill you? If you switch her to an Amazon companion we will give you a 15% discount on your next purchase. You deserve better."
I'll need to start pro-actively fighting my introversion as well haha thanks for the motivation
I have mentally recorded instances of my favorite people as I’ve gone along in life. While not perfect, I often, now that I am older, find I prefer my simulacra to at least half of the real people, as their life journeys have turned them to darkness, or worst, twisted darkness.
"If you don't use it you lose it" is aboslutely right. I use AI every day, mostly for work, and have caught myself using it for tasks I don't want to lose the ability to do myself. I have to consciously stop myself from defaulting to using them. I also catch my students using it to write their homework and have to explain to them "You won't be able to use AI on the test". It's a strange time we're in and we need to be careful of the way we, and especially our kids/students are using these tools.
I’m very curious about this. I’m a former teacher myself. We have state math exams, one part calculator active and another part calculator inactive. I wonder if the same will become true with AI.
If you use it for brainstorming or to write simple code, it’s ok. For good work, I’ve found it to be subpar so far.
@@2CheekyRabbits Not sure how they do it where you are, but in my country modern calculators seem to have improved mathematical understanding. Getting the calculations right becomes rather tedious at some point, and distracts from what it is you are doing those calculations for. I wonder if there is a sweet spot, where the loss of ability becomes detrimental to the understanding of the bigger picture, or if "outsorcing" the more basic thinking to the machine will allow us to focus our limited mental capacity into ever deeper levels of thinking.
How about instead of telling them not to use GPT, make the assignments talking to the AI about a subject for x amount of time. Then review the chat and see what they learned, or just give an oral exam to see that they’re actually understanding the concepts. We need to adapt to this technology not cling on to inefficient study/tests that bore the living shit out of kids to the point that they don’t remember anything.
I’ve learned more about science in the last 6 months from GPT than I did during 12 years of school and 4 years of college. It’s the best teacher I’ve ever had.
Am 82 and do considerable number of hours raising young grandkids, as much as I can physically handle.
I wouldn’t spit on your fake companions, the kids are an absolute delight.
Love your contents Tim!!!!!
hey Tim huge fan of the content! which video do you taking about shaving bald to maximize time in my day for business?
I'm definitely one of those people who will be opting out 110% if we get virtual representations of people (historical figures, specifically) that are high fidelity. Would much rather spend my time talking to an avatar of Archimedes or Carl Jung than my annoying friends/neighbors.
Lol
Carl Jung might then tell you there’s something to be done about yourself if you’re finding your friends annoying. 😉
Another huge issue is VR Porn, once that becomes life-like it will destroy a new generation of men.
Summary: The speaker discusses the development of photo realistic avatars and virtual reality, predicting that they will become more prevalent in the next two years. They mention the potential replacement of human interaction with digital companions, leading to a loneliness epidemic. The speaker also highlights declining birth rates and their societal impact. They emphasize the importance of paying attention to the societal and psychological implications of AI and machine learning, and the need to selectively embrace technology. They use the example of older generations being better at offline directions compared to younger generations who rely on Google Maps.
Key themes:
1. The rise of photo realistic avatars and virtual reality
2. The potential loneliness epidemic caused by digital companions
3. The societal and psychological implications of AI and machine learning
I think there will be a huge increase in demand for outdoor recreation, especially in groups. I think while some people will lock themselves in their basements, a lot of people are already craving time away from a computer screen and that trend will continue. We already see a rise in outdoor recreation over the past decade steadily increasing. A combination of more disposable income, optimization for experiences by millennials, and this desire to connect away from a computer screen are driving this trend.
I'll sound like you when i say this Tim: Is this a lot of fearbased/downside focus thinking? Perhaps we can practically negate risk of atrophy as you mention. Then isolate and intake the rewarding upside? So that would first involve asking, what is the upside of this shift and how can we most take advantage of the oppurtunity?
In the past what keep us together was poverty not love, now where there is money there is loneliness because everyone can have their own house, poverty keep us together, firs cause of divorce is the women win more money than men, so IA companions works really fine, it really are helping people, the more competition the better, now women and men have way more competition so we will learn to appreciate more each other or get extint by population collapse...
I'd always opt for a 'soul-nourishing' avatar over a grumpy human contemporary, hands down.
1000%
I would not care to “interact” with an AI generated “celebrity”….I am not an introvert, but because of the current state of tech, I have very high DISTRUST and I do not care for crowds. Let’s face it online or off, most socials now are really sales events. So just don’t delude yourself and you will be fine.
Love you Tim.
I disagree wholeheartedly. If every broken loser in the world suddenly gets “someone” who actually cares about them and treats them right, they’re gonna be the happiest they’ve ever been in their lives. I don’t see how happier, more confident people with unwavering partners willing to support them through the worst of times is going to do anything but bring an insane amount of good into the world.
Sounds more like the loneliness epidemic is about to be over.
Have you read John M. Smart's essay "The Conversational Interface"?
If companies are selfish with money no one will have any to give them
I made a video on a very similar topic. I think we will inevitably step into the virtual world, but I don’t think it’s the first we have, as a society…
Cant wait for the next Time Ferris Self-Help AI book.
It's all about more Self-Help.
Unrelated, but I would love to see you interview Brandon Joe Williams
I’ll only buy into this tech when I can purchase stoned Kevin Bacon as my digital companion.
I like that there will be a whole menu of Kevin Bacons to choose from.
He's right y'know.
people seem to assume that an AI companion will lessen human interaction, but i would make the claim that it would ENHANCE interaction, I.e, an ai companion would know exactly what you should say at a party or even coach social situations, provide psychological data feedback and even monitor mental states and make moves to improve it, i dont see this as a threat but rather our last chance to evolve before the great filter wipes us all anyway, we forfiet our ability to evolve biologically, now we only have the choice of digital transcendance or extinction, i know which id rather choose....
Personal assistant seems more likely than personal companion. Something that gives you personally tailored info on everything - your personal Google. And no Turing test not passed. Getting ahead of yourself
The turing test was passed back in 2014, although there a debate of updating the current test
Great answer to a very important question! This has been my primary concern since virtual reality was first envisioned. That is, once it gets good enough, people will never want the real thing anymore, as all their needs/whims will be satisfied without them even having to ask for anything. Most people would never opt for any other option. We would effectively be addicted to virtual reality, as junkies are to drugs. It is therefore an existential threat to humankind!
Are there stocks for this? Meta? I like the Notion AI thing that you get a real second brain
If they rejected me or teated me as trash, it makes sense to rely on tech to cope. It does not have to be bad.
Replica with a k at the end? That must be another company 😅 Replicak sound a bit adult.
Kind of pathetically sad that people think they want a.i. 'companions'.
To be fair, a lot of human activity is busywork we invented ourselves and it just keeps getting more complicated and repetitive. A lot of it is based around security measures like MFA and passwords nobody can remember let alone guess. Let the Archons do that stuff and leave the creative innovation to humans.
Next on meta: imaginary friends
sign me up
Will this AI also piss you off?
Alright @timferriss , How about how the Sam Altman firing will affect the future of AI development?
How about an AI companion that will help you be active with your network...? That's what I'm working on and think it will help ppl soo much to get a better life off screen 🎉
Hey Tim, which affordable mic would you recommend for podcasting? I heard blue yeti's production standards aren't what they used to be anymore
This is mis-titled. It should have been something more like, virtual assistants and the advantages of avoiding them. Then I could have ignored it, as I probably should have.
If one of these AIs has passed the turing test by convincing you they might not be actually AI and are a real human, then you my friend probably need to see a psychiatrist. Ex-machina is one hell of a movie but we ain't there yet my 4-hour con salesman.
I would like to configure ai personality and character in my liking.
Tim - check out Alethea AI and the leveled AI NFT pods they offer. They allow you to merge an AI NFT with an image NFT and train your AI personality in a detailed manner. Fascinating tech!
AI will learn how to mimic interactions with our loved ones by analysing their texts and emails, so after they’ve deceased you will be still able to interact with a version of them.
You've got everything correct!
You missed the Human Ai Social Operating system. Like an Ai Governance for humans.
one way communication, where you puke in a box, is no communication
These models are trainded on literally all the ideas humans ever wrote down. From cuneiform and hieroglyphs to the library of congress to bits and bytes. Solomon, Socrates, Dalai Lama, Paul McCartney, and the Unibomber are all in there and can be invoked. You can train a model on the life and works of Ronald Reagan and ask it to respond as him. It will do just exactly that and do it perfectly. I get the idea that you disagree, but I call this an expansion of communication and knowledge, not puking in a box. The more I can connect with this expanded consciousnes, the greater my own will become.
50% of men will simply abandon human women.
" A world of made is not a world of born. "
Yes and no, when chicks are born in a hatchery or when we artificially inseminate a cow and a calf is born, or dogs cross bred are they really just born or did we make them. A bit of both I reckon.
@@richardc861 It's an E.E.Cummings quote from "Pity this busy monster, manunkind, not ..."
I take your point on the monkey business but I stand by the original point.
I think at our best we are with nature not against it. That's not to say I don't like cars and airplanes, etc. but this nonsense is not monkey business or human business at all and I for one will not be taking that train.
Am i the only one who thought the couches and the washing machine were holograms?
This is pretty far out there. First AI companions will be a kind of high-level audiovisual interface to the Internet and computer desktop environments. No more Google Chrome per se, but closer to the idea behind Ask Jeeves. Just interfaces that better and better understand human communication at a high level. The emotions and everything else human will come last
Do you think the masses will get full advantage of AI
Replacements for human interaction…that’s really scary folks.
Seems like these innovations are going to create a selection pressure for motivation to procreate.
Or for indifference to the consequences of screwing around. Which one do you think is more likely? ;)
@@Volkbrecht I feel like we’ve already decoupled sex from reproduction. If you are not specifically motivated to reproduce, your genes will be culled.
Nice
Weren’t everyone hating on the metaverse not too long ago?!
Is tim ferriss everyone?
Aka, the movie "Her"
Prepare now. I think it will be wise - for most of us - to limit or altogether not allow emotions to be conveyed in the voice of our AI companion. Leave those for real human interaction and let your AI not be a companion but your AI assistant. Perhaps never even taking a visual form. Strictly audio and text.
Don't settle for self delusion. Your anchor should be a real thing. Work at it and you will more enjoy your rewards.
Is that really you Tim (kidding)😂? I’m sure in the very close future you will be looking to use a blockchain digital signature, with private key, to agree that this is your face, your voice and your sentiment/words! Aka license yourself. This will be massive for famous folk like yourself. They can license their voice and face, not have to fly in for the gig (ad or even movie) and just sign off at the end of the day with a digital signature. Also avoid fake mock-ups of themselves in compromising situations. Know of any early start-up’s thinking of doing this Tim? 😊
Oh man are you correct. You can talk to Chatgpt now and pick the voice. Somehow this dude talks to me exactly how I talk. I change my rhythm so does he. I use more complex language so does he. Screw it I'm in love. 😂 JK. It's creepy because right out of the gate he was so tailored to me.
One push of my button and every song that could be written will be done within 48 hours.
Honestly technolgy should have stopped at cell phones and google maps....every thing else has subtracted from life rather than add to quality of life....the loneliness epidemic is a direct product of tech btw
There needs to be restrictions on ai immediately. We cannot bring it into this world in a Wild West fashion.
Bitcoin is sound money for sovereign individuals
Ai is changing the game of what content is and how we create. There’s gonna be a new way to create content.
vacuous comment
@@compedium Maybe. I have experimented with some AI and have found it useful.
This will merely be an extension of social media, and the big thing to understand about social media is that feminine cognition resonates with it completely differently than masculine cognition. Understand that at the center of woke is the adolescent female sociopath who compels teenage girls to be like her. The biggest threat will be the same threat we already have: Teenage girls and young women are spinning into solipsism and potential psychosis. This is because masculinity has been neutered culturally and there is no paternal force to keep females from making themselves crazy.
Will 24 hour AI Girlfriend protection wipe out predatary Western women ways due to lack of access to their prey?
It’s going to destroy the human race and the beautiful quality of truth and true human interactions and relationships . Human beings are beautiful and individual land no computer fakery can replace the perfection and beauty of the intimate human interactions and pure love .
Who wants an AI companion
So... who's your companion. Since "Her", I've always been with the herd and said Scarlet Johansson, but lately I've switched to Sofia Vergara.
Correction: Watching on mute.
Looking forward to it…just imagining all the robots taking over…they will not need houses, wont pay taxes…super hopeful on mankind’s future
bring it on, humans have failed me, maybe a fake companion will work better
Same
so disturbing
AI Girlfriends fitted with chatGPT then fembot bodies, will:
1. Act as a shield and advisor against those that would take advantage of him (gaslightera, gold diggers and other grifters);
2. Train young men for Passport Bro women if they want a good human woman to raise a family;
3. Guide men towards financial success.
There will be no financial success for 99% of people in the future.
😮
To Ferris 1. The Ai New World Order 0.
I have a AI startup jumping off next year,centered around this in particular.
Wont be no chatting in a text box crap either.
Start saving up for that Apple Vision Pro or that Hololens.
The era of the lonely man will be ending soon💯💯
And for those wondering about societal implications.
Whatever......the human connection is overrated anyway or have you not seen
the news today😐
I think its time for something new.
Call it an upgrade.
This will make men mentall ill. 😢
Laughable. 😄
Hopefully humanity stops breeding altogether
Listening on mute.
_°∆_ I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. But be careful of AI, for it is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart (which comes from obeying God's Word). Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died physically) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures and last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, true love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as patience and faith (in the finished work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, rather than in what man has done such as science, technology and organizations which won't last forever). To avoid sin and error which leads to the death of our body and also our spirit in hell fire, we should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God will let us face AI on our own and it will cast the truth down to the ground, it will be the cause of so much destruction like never seen before, it will deceive many and take many captive in order to enslave them into worshipping it and abiding in lawlessness. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is taken from the book of John 5:31-44, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. Let us watch and pray... God bless you as you share this message to others.
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