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readthenotes1 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)

Asimov wrote about it (Bicentennial Man, 1976).

The loneliness epidemic is widespread and an AI "friend" is palliative.

Sadly, it's not that the artificial voice is replacing the authentic human relationship.

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