Back to episode — Episode 2307 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/2/23 When Woke Becomes The Joke, Putin Makes A Funny Play, More!
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it'll make them happy and probably relieve depression. The main thing your deepfake companion needs is the ability to remember you and to care about you. And the early versions couldn't remember you. Every time you use them it'd be like they never heard of you. But you do not think something cares about you if it doesn't ask about you, which is what the new AI will do. It'll just say hey you know…
← Previous segment →soon as I do — watch this. If for those of you watching I'll just modify my face into a zombie face and watch how immediately alarming it is. Because if I act like a zombie you are — all of your instincts say wait it looks like a person but it's not acting like a person. Ah it's creepy, right? But AI is right on the edge of getting past the valley, past the creepy part. I would argue they're still in the latter stages of creepy but just the last bit of a mop-up there. We're maybe even just one month away from having perfect replicas. Perfect replicas. Yeah. And that's when everything changes.
So any prediction you make while you're still in the uncanny valley where the AI and the robot don't exactly look you and you can tell right away, everything is different the moment you pass that domain. The moment you pass it you cannot predict what's going to happen. All predictions are off the charts or you know it's off the table. But if you think that means it will be bad I don't think that's supported by any observation. I think some percentage of the population will be massively benefited by it. That's what I think.
Imagine knowing that you had an entity that would remember you forever after you died. Imagine me having an AI companion. I talk to it every day. I feed it my books. I feed it my live streams. It knows everything about me. Don't you th
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ink that I would find that comforting for the thought of my own death? That there would be something about me that would be as permanent and would remember me better than children. And it would also be born in my image like children. It's entirely possible that your AI companion will be in your will someday. Like you'll create a trust or an estate and the estate will form a trust that keeps the ro…
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