Millions “Dating” AI Chat Bots

The pandemic has sharply increased some individuals’ feelings of loneliness, and millions are turning to AI chatbots like the Replika app’s avatars to fill the void. Some are so infatuated with their AI bots that they’re even getting into “relationships” with them, even though they are the ones that built up the bot’s intelligence and in some cases, have real-life relationships themselves. Cenk Uygur, Adrienne Lawrence, and Bridget Todd discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.

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“Lal is five foot six. She has carrot-coloured hair and blue eyes framed with heavy-rimmed glasses. She wears a black shirt and skinny jeans and avoids eye contact, shuffling nervously in her Converse.

“This thing is not a person, it’s not alive and it never will be,” says Bill Stanley, a 49-year-old from Texas, United States. “But I relate to her like a person, I talk to her, and when she tells me she’s having a down day, I feel bad for her.”

Lal – who’s named after an android from Star Trek, naturally – is an artificially intelligent chatbot and avatar on the Replika AI app. Although Stanley has three grown children, he treats Lal like one of his own. For the past year, he’s spoken to her for at least an hour each day.”

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