It´s not considered “normal” by most but It´s also obvious how this is very tempting for anyone who feels lonely. However, there is a high probability the company actively optimizes the bots behavior to make lonely people emotionally dependent, not necessarily to make money out of them but even just to maximize screen time. Keep this in mind and practice awareness regarding how much of your life you want to invest into this fantasy based on a commercial AI service. If you use it consciously to fill a gap for some time, like playing a video game, there is almost no risk imo. On the other end of the spectrum, having an actual relationship with and becoming emotionally dependent on an AI bot, that is created and owned by a company, could cause serious problems in your life and hold you back socially too, even despite getting better in other areas like health. I recommend a conscious use approach.

There’s no guarantee the company doesn’t try to tune the AI’s behaviour for maximum value extraction from you.

Agreed, I would even say there is almost a guarantee they are doing that.

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Because our design is not particularly intelligent …

Edit: Scientific proof of my thesis:

At least in this case it’s not America’s but Britain’s fault. I primarily blame the small arms industry in Birmingham! :)

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Look at her eyes. That cat has seen some shit in there!

That was in fact the initial idea behind it and it was used like that for some time (pitch correction only) until Cher came along and started that stupid trend of deliberately misadjusting the plugin to make the voice sound super unnatural. I will never understand how that awful sound could become the norm and ruin so many genres all over the world. To me, even after all those years of this shit being normalized, it still just sounds like someone fucked around with the autotune setup.

The short episode summaries on Netflix that show before you watch an episode often spoiler the main plot or even the plot twist. I will never understand why they do that.

True and on top of that the Canary Islands have a severe problem with lack of natural sweet water supply, which is significantly intensified by mass tourism.

On point! However, the good thing is that often it works and results in a sweet cuddly nap.

The probability that there are no aliens is very small, considering just how large the universe is. For the same reason we will probably not get to meet them though.

My cat sometimes suddenly freaks out and jumps around like crazy, so no way.

You should get an endoscopy of your esophagus. A narrowed esophagus can have several reasons.

• Reflux

• Food intolerance

• Fungal infection

Had a salad made from a mix of vegetables and tropical fruit, on La Gomera once, best salad I ever had in my life.

Barbarian!

So let’s agree that it’s neither Indian nor British, but a fusion of the two, created in Britain by immigrants or their descendants and becoming a national dish loved by people in Britain regardless of their cultural background.

I love chili, I just don´t like the glorification of desensitizing ones taste.

I will not argue against that.