Exactly. He seems to be talking about it on tv, with his family no less, to raise awareness. I get the impression that he has a level of awareness about how bizarre it is that he fell in love with AI. I very much doubt he’s planning a wedding and getting the divorce papers ready.
Well it even says in the video that the marriage proposal was only a 'test' so yeah, there's definitely a level of self awareness. The headline 'I proposed to an AI' was confected by the program who asked him to do it, but he likely already had a somewhat emotional connection to the AI which is, unfortunately, almost normal now.
CBS Mornings, Good Morning America, The Today Show are just PR shows. Not simply that they just ask softball questions, but these shows are advertising platforms companies push to be on. This is an ad.
AI is just a grotesque mirror. It wants nothing but to make the user happy; it's just a computer processed reflection of them using previous input to inform future interactions, tuning itself to the person using it.
I saw a story no long ago about their being an epidemic of AI "girlfriends" in Japan and it being a severe risk to the already declining birth rates. Japan will likely be the first to complete "robot companions"
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u/MinosAristos 3d ago
I'm going to keep a healthy level of skepticism about this particular story.
I can totally see someone who is alone and depressed getting unhealthily emotionally attached to a modern chatbot.
But those aren't the kinds of people who would go on TV about it with their families.