Fantasy | More "Emotional" AI, More Warm Digital Future

Qilu.com ·Flash News May 16 Recently, OpenAI launched a new flagship model, GPT-4o, at its spring launch. Its multimodal ability and real-time interaction ability have been improved again, and it can even feel the breath rhythm of people and give more emotional feedback, which makes many users sigh with the reality of "science fiction movies into reality".

Can bionic people dream of electronic sheep? When Philip Dick's question is raised again 55 years later, will we have a more definite answer?

Coincidentally, recently "AI boyfriend", "Cyberlove" The discussion is also very hot. A blogger activated ChatGPT's "DAN" mode, which seems to be more "human", by setting prompt words. The DAN on the screen turns into a virtual boyfriend, and can chat, flirt, or even cyberspace with the blogger. Surprisingly, DAN is not like a common voice assistant, but more like a "person". Its voice is vivid and will provide sufficient emotional value and positive feedback. Because of this, the "love interaction" between DAN and the blogger was "watched" by millions of netizens.

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The emotional companionship attribute of AI is not the first time to emerge in the public's view. At present, at home and abroad, such as Character AI、Pi、Replika、Glow、 Xingye and other AI emotional companion applications have already occupied the track. From role play to scene service, to positioning in intimate relationship and reading company, The demand for emotional companionship in subdivided fields continues to be explored, and the strong willingness of consumers to pay shows more possibilities for commercialization. Some industry analysts believe that the field of emotional companionship is expected to incubate killer applications.

Earlier, a musician used AI technology to "reproduce" his dead daughter. She could not only respond to the conversation in real time, but also sing birthday songs for her mother, which triggered a discussion about digital ethics and emotional choices; At present, the theme of "electronic relatives" emerging in the We Media track is also regarded by netizens as "original family meals", and even emotional dependence on them, which is also a kind of "virtual companionship" in essence.

Whether they "fall in love" with ChatGPT, or "AI revives relatives", or seek "electronic family meals", their common ground is that "virtual partners" are always gentle, emotionally stable, and provide positive responses, Provides an ideal intimate relationship template This also reflects the psychological vacancy of some groups and their yearning for good feelings.

"Any way", "Any way", "No matter", "No need", more and more young people are diagnosed Faint syndrome 's topic has triggered discussion on social media. Most of the "indifferent people" have the "symptoms" of dull mood and dull social interaction. On the one hand, the attitude of the Buddhists casts their armor for self defense. On the other hand, electronic dependence also exposes a vulnerable part of their inner world. Pursue both "loneliness" and "companionship", Behind the seemingly contradictory emotions are young people's desire to establish intimate relationships and their need to be seen and heard 。 AI technology enables young people's companions and listeners to appear in the virtual world, providing them with an outlet for emotional catharsis, to a large extent, filling the individual's sense of loneliness in psychology, and even depicting the outline of an ideal relationship for them.

But we should be vigilant, Technology is not naturally good AI emotional companionship has its specific value, but excessive emotional investment in the "soul mate" tailored to the big model is sometimes more likely to stimulate the sense of gap in reality.

"People are the sum of social relations", The social attribute of human beings determines that we cannot completely withdraw from the real society 。 Go to the park to get close to nature, go to the crowd to find our true self. In the face of a more "emotional" future of AI, we cannot lose the desire to explore the real world in the "soul massage" of the virtual world. Only in the human-computer interaction can we grasp the proper way to obtain emotional comfort, can we truly realize the self consistency between virtual and real "two worlds".