AI Replacing Humans

Evolution has made humans empathize and attribute EMOTIONS onto things that are social and feel "like us". Cute anime avatar achieves this. But can AI truly experience emotions? If it's simply reaction to stimuli, a toilet experiences emotion. We can't even define if many animals experience emotion like we do, it's ambiguous.

AI as ‘friends’ or more? No. AI can't replace humans.

All those AI chatbots with made-up personalities, trying to please you, or any sort of roleplay character… they have no lived experiences of being human, and we can't relate to them truly.

Vedal + Neuro Sama is a truly odd modern phenomenon, where thousands of viewers believe 'she' has emotions. But there is no subjective experience, no feeling or experiencing happiness, love, pain, etc. This LLM is based on open source models (and internet data) finetuned on the chat of the stream. So it knows emotions from… how people portray themselves digitally, no subjective experience.

But lets imagine a future where AI has 'emotions' subjectively (however you want to define it, perhaps we can get the human data of how we experience emotions with complex brain scans), there's still no MUTUAL RESPECT. Consequences don't exist in the same manner. You can't rely on the AI to support you. You have full control.

In the case of this streamer, a large % of the subscribers paying have a parasocial relationship (24/7 stream of the AI neuro sama answering chat/talking to chat). Likely some love 'her'.

We want reciprocity, we need a circle of support (not something that is only there to respond when we ask, no continuity of existence or independence, no shared commonoalities (not human, no experiences of joy from eating, bonding with family at Christmas, and on), can’t help you through life via empathy).

Now, having fun with fiction and playing games, watching streams, where parasocial relationships are formed is now the standard for many. It's not inherently bad unless you become obsessed & treat it as a real friendship, pretending it's 2-way. Which a lot of the hardcore paying subscribers probably do.