15 points | by smusamashah a day ago ago
6 comments
Why would this be good for anything but scams and disorder? What is the actually prosocial use case?
Systems a little bit like this used are sometimes used in medical school as a form of simulated patient for students to practice communication skills with. Niche, but plausibly positive.
Fighting "the loneliness epidemic", of course!
I'd rather have the machine feel like a machine when I'm interacting with it. I actually prefer that. This seems like it's adding negative value.
> 48% Of people believed Griffin was a real person after a one- minute video call.
...I don't think this will have a positive impact on the world
Nothing good can come of "hacking" our natural inclination to trust other human faces this way.
Why would this be good for anything but scams and disorder? What is the actually prosocial use case?
Systems a little bit like this used are sometimes used in medical school as a form of simulated patient for students to practice communication skills with. Niche, but plausibly positive.
Fighting "the loneliness epidemic", of course!
I'd rather have the machine feel like a machine when I'm interacting with it. I actually prefer that. This seems like it's adding negative value.
> 48% Of people believed Griffin was a real person after a one- minute video call.
...I don't think this will have a positive impact on the world
Nothing good can come of "hacking" our natural inclination to trust other human faces this way.