Yep. That’s why it’s important to understand how LLMs and other related technology work. Though to be honest, I’m not quite there either since I don’t have a computer science background. I just know that some LLMs can understand context more than others. You can check LLM benchmarks and customer reviews to see which LLMs fit your particular needs the most. For example, everyone is hyping over Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

As far as resembling Samantha goes, I agree that we’re very far away from that. In the movie, it’s acknowledged that she has developed her own consciouness and sentience. The same cannot be said about current iterations of AI chatbots. The more people, including AI companion users, understand the mechanism behind these things alongside with their limitations, the better.

That’s interesting that they’d make exclusively queer AI companions. I thought these types of AI can be whatever sexuality you want, similar to how all the main characters in Baldur’s Gate 3 can be romanced by any gender.

TechCrunch: this is nightmare fuel

engadget: it’s so cute :)

This was mentioned in the Discussion part of their paper:

The activity of facial muscles involved in forming expressions such as smiles is closely linked to the development of wrinkles. One significant next step in this research is to leverage this model to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying wrinkle formation. Moreover, applying this knowledge to recreate such expressions on a chip could find applications in the cosmetics industry and the orthopedic surgery industry. Additionally, this study performed actuation on a dermis equivalent by controlling mechanical actuators positioned beneath the dermis equivalent. Substituting this mechanical actuator with cultured muscle tissue presents an intriguing prospect in the realization of a higher degree of biomimetics. Examining the correlation between facial muscle contractions and resulting facial expression can offer insights into the physiological aspects of emotion, leading to new exploration in the treatment of diseases, such as facial paralysis surgery.

I know that sounds like a clone. But in Bicentennial Man, the main character updates all of his parts until he is completely identical to a biological human, even experiencing human death.

I wonder if this will end up like the Bicentennial Man. I can definitely see a case where these robots would eventually evolve to be a 1-on-1 copy of a human

This is true in the art industry as well. Many outsourced artists from third world countries are exploited with unreasonable wages and long hours

Accounts created to give unsolicited promotions exist though. It’s especially common for AI products

I got called a troll and a fool by the AI when I tried to find the limits of one LLM character

That’s probably because of the material being used as training data. There are countless of times where I chat with certain bots and while the initial conversations were colorful, it eventually devolves into generic LLM-esque repetition

That would need a whole article if I were to explain my background, but to put it succintly, I’m a third culture kid who lived in the US and went back to Indonesia.

I don’t know, I personally have trouble communicating with some fellow autistics sometimes. Autism is a spectrum after all, and I think individual autistic communication is also informed by cultural expectations (ethnicity, race, class, etc) albeit in a different way from how NT communication is shaped. Given that my cultural background is quite different from a typical person, I often run into problems when communicating with other autistics as well.

I think that would be online spaces in general where anything that goes against the grain gets shooed away by the zeitgeist of the specific space. I wish there were more places where we can all put criticism into account, generative AI included. Even r/aiwars, where it’s supposed to be a place for discussion about both the good and bad of AI, can come across as incredibly one-sided at times.

You are right. But I’m mostly observing how much of the newsfeed headlines talk about how AI is dangerous and dystopian (which can be especially done by bad actors e.g. the Neo-Nazis mentioned in the article, but the fear-mongering headlines outnumber more neutral or sometimes positive ones. Then again many news outlets benefit from such headlines anyway regardless of topic), and this one puts the cherry on top.

Is this just some media manipulation to give a bad name on AI by connecting them with Nazis despite that it’s not just them benefiting from AI?

Used it for one day and chatting with it was fine, but unfortunately the feature I was interested in the most: Chronicles (where the app summarizes your day) is locked behind a subscription. The other features can easily be done on even propietary apps like ChatGPT or Claude.

I have some reservations with this opinion piece. Many people end up with AI companions because of the loneliness epidemic, and it’d be rather dishonest to accuse victims of the loneliness epidemic as being narcisstic when there are more systemic issues at play.

You’d be surprised by how common that term is within younger generations

Not to mention that “rizz” was the word of 2023 by Oxford University Press

Is there an open-source version of this? I already have a mechanical keyboard

Shame everything gets down-voted here on Lemmy.

Yeah, I don’t get why either. Is lemmy.world in general anti-AI companionship? Seems that many of the comments only wants to put out an opinion and not so much on discussion

What are your reservations? I feel like if corporations push AI companions as a way to rake in profits, the chatbots would become too predatory and it’ll foster even more isolation, the userbase would spend more money to keep them “alive”, and the cycle starts over, making the userbase depend on these companies to “avoid” isolation.