00:00When ChatGPT first hit the internet, people were worried about kids cheating on their homework or plagiarising essays.
00:09Now the applications, and maybe the worries, go far beyond that.
00:14AI is playing a greater role in young people's lives, more so than just in their schoolwork.
00:21It's now informing and sometimes replacing their real-life relationships.
00:27But is it a good thing?
00:29Raman, let's start with you.
00:32Will AI companions one day replace real human friends or partners?
00:38In short, no.
00:39I think that at a meta level represents a pretty big existential crisis for humanity if we are no longer interacting with each other.
00:48Artificial intelligence, it is programming.
00:50There is nothing real, alive, sentient, loving, feeling or caring about it.
00:54So when people develop relationships with AI systems, it's what's called a parasocial relationship.
00:59It is not actually reciprocated.
01:00It is the mimicry of reciprocation.
01:02And also because these are built by commercial entities trying to get you to buy and use their product, they suffer from something called sycophancy, which means that it is telling you what you want to hear, making you feel good.
01:15And this creates artificial expectations that then create people unable to operate in the real world.
01:22Because in the real world, you have to compromise, you have to interact, and you have to deal with situations that might be uncomfortable or difficult for you.
01:29That's about it.
01:30That's it.
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01:31That's it.
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01:32That's it.
01:33That's it.
01:33So now this is what I want to do.
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