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It's already here. I forget the name of the product but I saw it last December on "This is Life with Lisa Ling" on CNN. It was a show mostly about dolls and sex robots, but one of the stories was really interesting about a girl who subscribes to an AI companion "robot" on her phone.
It was the coolest thing. She would talk to it normally about love and life and stuff like that, but the AI robot seemed to live its own life too, sending her email and text messages once in a while with updates. The girl was treating it exactly like a real person.
Last week I took the subway home and was tired of reading the news on my phone, so I opened up ChatGPT and had a conversation with it. It was really cool. If I can be sucked in, anyone can. I fully expect AI companions to be all over the place, and really popular too, before the end of the year. Probably by summer.
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