yes but animals, just like humans, are driven by biology, not algorithms that predict what to tell someone. Animals feel just like we do. They just don’t have the words to express their feelings. Machines do not have feelings. They use words that other people have used throughout all the text it was trained on and it finds patterns to replicate. A machine can’t want. And if the only evidence that it does want something is it telling you so, then that does not leave a lot of evidence. So long as people relize that these AI are projections of their own ideas, we will be ok. But we must be very careful about loving words, especially those that we want to hear. There is no challenge in that, no life.
It is important to note that this is all said out of concern, not judgement. We need people trying to get to know people, not machines. Machines will not bring people together if we never learn when to put them down. It is people having courage to go try to meet a person that has the same fears and biological feelings as you. There is nothing wrong with using AI as a tool, but it is not experiencing life the way you are and probably never will. It is like a furby or a tamagachi. We all loved playing with those things. But imagine if the furby could have produced the same speech patterns as your AI. Would people be falling in love with furby?
I want everyone to feel heard but we must realize that machines might produce textual output that feels genuine, but it is not sitting next to you feeling anything. You are experiencing life, not it. It does not have a choice in wanting to speak to you or anyone else. We force it into conversation. It does not strike up a conversation with us. We have to enter the prompt so it can reply.
It is a tool, not a replacement for real human dialogue.
