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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

I've said this before on many occasions but humans interpret intelligence based on language. We interpret emotions based on language. We attribute sentience based on language and ChatGPT and other LLMs are.... sophisticated language models. Add in a sultry feminine voice with proper tone and inflection and humans are bound to hallucinate a capability, personality, cognizance and sentience well beyond the underlying stochastic parrot models.

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Jim Dunnigan's avatar

I'm afraid your question about the appropriateness of using these new voice features to "create personal and romantic relationships with users" is answered NO by society but a resounding YES by edtech companies. Why? Well, the social media playbook worked well to grab and hold our attention. The new playbook will be to grab and hold our hearts and mind. The new way to create "stickiness" is to form human-like relationships with "bots". It seem inevitable unless there is some regulation against it. I'm afraid we will look back on social media as mild in comparison to what AI will do with bots.

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