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Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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People in 2024 aren't just swiping right and left on online dating apps — some are crafting their perfect AI match and entering relationships with chatbots.

Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, recently shared his concerns about young men creating AI romantic partners and said he believes that AI dating will actually increase loneliness.

"This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology," Schmidt said in a conversation about AI dangers and regulation on "The Prof G Show" with Scott Galloway released Sunday.

Schmidt said an emotionally and physically "perfect" AI girlfriendcould create a scenario in which a younger male becomes obsessed and allows the AI to take over their thinking.

"That kind of obsession is possible," Schmidt said in the interview. "Especially for people who are not fully formed."

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[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You know, the way this toxic bro culture has evolved, let them build their own romantic partners if actual human women aren’t good enough for them.

Personally, I love my authentic, human, beautiful complicated and unusual wife. I didn’t get to create her, but I’ve gotten to spend almost 20 years figuring her out and it’s been pretty great.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I can’t imagine wanting perfect and take over the weird dweeb I managed to fall in love with.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

But that would require personal work and growth on my part! Joke

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago

What if it’s the other way around – you’re not good enough for actual human women?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 69 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 28 points 6 days ago

New on NBC this spring. Tune in for the drama. AI vs AI Romance Island Server Room.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here's is a movie plot for you

Two sentient AI forces into the industry of artificial partners meet and develop human emotions

Fill in the gaps

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago (16 children)

I have been saying for a while, I think hyperealistic vr and believable AI personalities are going to be the 'great filter' that limits advanced civilization.

Given the chance to have your sexual and emotional fantasies fulfilled in a satisfying way, many many people will take it. Especially when 'real life' is getting harder with everything from the cost of living making the dream of 'married with home and children' less obtainable to hyper competitive online dating disenfranchising increasing proportions of both men and women.

Having a believable relationship with AI is far closer than we think. It doesn't have to perfectly replicate real life, it just has to be satisfying enough in a few key ways that people begin to prefer it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Given the chance to have your sexual and emotional fantasies fulfilled in a satisfying way, many many people will take it.

Obviously. But I haven’t yet seen anything from an AI that could fulfill either.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 6 days ago

Depends on how low your standards are. I mean, there were [a small number of] people who convinced themselves that the 1960s chatbot ELIZA was a person with feelings, and the bots have only become more convincing since then. I can certainly see the modern ones fulfilling the emotional needs of someone who really, really wants to believe they're speaking to a sapient being who cares about them, and as for the other, well, some people have pretty low sex drives or find phone sex fulfilling enough (at least for a time).

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I personally agree that this is a kind of a regulator.

Like what Tao Te Ching says. Humans shouldn't have too much of what they desire. Such a reality in some area fails them as an opportunity to learn. It's also a dead end - you can't have children with a robot. You can't grow children with a robot, or maybe you can, but it will not be sufficiently complex and it will have different criteria of success.

But this doesn't limit advanced civilization.

It's just that in these things we are trying to cheat. Advancement to AGI, if it ever happens, should be done in its own turn. We have means to solve a lot of purely technical problems, but we haven't yet. There's no reason to hurry with AGI.

The reason Europe has conquered the world was that European cultures had this respect to simplicity, born from Christian morality, but also respect to choice and logic. Remove any one of these three, and you lose that power.

Europeans had sometimes less sophisticated technologies in any particular area than, say, China or Safavid Persia or Ottomans or Southeast Asian nations or even at some point some African nations. But what they had was complete and comprehensive system, civilization as a whole. They always had the lower level of the building finished before going to the next one.

This was due to that Christian modesty combined with antique philosophy.

I also think we've diverted from that relatively recently - around the dotcom bubble crash, maybe. I think it had deeper implications than what people think, because the trust into said philosophy started eroding at that very point. Which created imbalance in favor of forces less affected, like Microsoft and others, who have eroded it further, and the "good" forces, like Sun or Compaq or Motorola or what not, have contributed more into it with their attempts to survive after the 90s than they would if they'd die with the crash immediately, because they showed the public something that looked like a loss in honest competition.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

I’m not sure one of the most evil people on earth is in a position to be dictating human values to anyone.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Guys is there a way to use complex filtering on the Boost app. Maybe a regex? I wanna be able to filter all headlines that include the phrase Google CEO unless it also contains the phrase 'head explodes'.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If(match(/.*(Google CEO).*(head explodes).*/gi,title_text)){pass}

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's beyond me that anyone understands this stuff.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It just filters for anything "Google CEO" anything "head explodes" anything^1^. However, this alone won't help since you will also need another rule that doesn't let anything pass that contains just "Google CEO" with a lower priority.

^1^ Except newlines

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Perhaps something like "Google CEO.*(?!head explodes)" Which would match if "Google CEO" isn't at some point followed by "head explodes"

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 38 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The real question is are sex dolls good enough? Because you cannot have sex with an AI girlfriend.

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[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 45 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Futurama warned us about this!

[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Came here to say just that. Mr CEO over not thinking this would happen is just detached from the world.

Lonely people aren't lonely by choice a lot of the time, they just can't find a place they fit in. You find out there is a place you can chat with "someone" that understands and that is all it takes.

[–] FoD@startrek.website 12 points 6 days ago

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

You can't just say that and not link it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 34 points 6 days ago

Could the oldest profession be one of the first to be replaced by AI?

No.

[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Perfect AI boyfriends are the bigger threat to young men

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Does anyone care what this guy says about anything? He is in the news every week with his more or less obnoxious opinions about random stuff. Can we just ignore him?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

20 years later, the last fertile guy cums one last time. Elon is there to catch the golden cum. He must save the world by reverse engineering one semen into an egg. If he can find one, he can bring us back! But so far, it has just been blanks after blanks. This could be it! Imagine all the tits and pussy that could be automatically grown! We're gonna be millionaires! Women, the ultimate product!....if they can bring them back from extinction.

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[–] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

I'll take projection for 100, Alex

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When i was younger i totally would've been into an ai girlfriend

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[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology...

If only popular media weren't jammed full of people fantasizing about creating artificial romantic partners or things to stick their junk into.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't fuck with AI chat bots but I got a he'll of a lot less lonely when I stopped giving a fuck if I had a girlfriend or not. Giving people alternatives to the toxic dating culture of today may not be such a bad thing.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I fuckin love being alone, living alone, not talking to people. I’m alone a lot, but I’m not lonely. There’s a big difference

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wish he would fuck off along with the rest of the CEO class .

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't think this is a problem specific to men or adults primarily but children growing up with them. That is if they'll continue to improve drastically which won't necessarily happen.

[–] Mug4924@mastodon.world 7 points 6 days ago

@Stopthatgirl7 lol. can anything come close to the real thing? while knowing it's a simulacra?

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