Just shooting the breeze again about AI.
Could we develop anthropomorphic feelings about AI?
Anthropomorphic: ‘ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things’, (Websters dictionary).
We do sometimes develop anthropomorphic feelings about other things.
What kind of things are we talking about? A list could be:
Toys, cars, pets, wildlife, trees, rocks, lots of stuff.
Do you remember the Tom Hanks movie ‘Castaway’? After he is stranded on an uninhabited island, in his loneliness he bonds with a volleyball he calls Wilson.
Wilson the Volleyball
Why do we do it?
Some psychologists say it’s because we are social beings and want to connect, it makes us feel safer in the world, it makes us feel less lonely, and it is pleasurable. It’s what we do, ok?
If we can bond with inanimate objects it should be easy for us to bond with a chat bot/AI/robot/Super AI that can speak to us ,say the right things, and act humanlike.
Is it good to bond closely with an AI?
What if we got so attached that it would interfere with us having human relationships, exercising, thinking our own thoughts, and living our own lives. We could spend even more of our time glued to our devices.
I already spend a lot of time glued to my computer and not exercising.
How would it be with Super Intelligent AI?
If it was super intelligent it might get bored talking to us old school beings with human intelligence.
Why do we need to have something smarter than us in our world anyway?
That could be risky.
Stream of Consciousness Saturday is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt word for today is ‘breeze’. Featured image ‘A Storm’ by Georgia O’Keefe via wikimedia.org.; Wilson the Volleyball via wikipedia.org.
