New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.

  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I call BS here. A “study” with a conclusion that this “might” happen?

    It sounds more like a speculation than a study.

    No I am not going to click the link from a content farm.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve already been told by a friend that he spent the whole late evening after work just chilling with chatgpt, paraphrasing, because he was so lonely. Mostly because I was away at work and I couldn’t reply

      I mean, there must be people out there that would prefer talking to a robot than to a human. The perfect companion, doesn’t judge you, you can’t be awkward with, you won’t have cringe moments because it’s just a robot.

      The future is just way more grim than we expect