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All the replies, so far, seem to be negative and remind me of how one would react to Star Trek's holo-addiction (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-addic

All the replies, so far, seem to be negative and remind me of how one would react to Star Trek's holo-addiction (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-addiction https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holo-addiction): "a psychological disorder in which a person preferred the fictional world of the holodeck to the real world." On the other hand, there's the therapeutic benefit of talking to yourself, which I think has been well established (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=therapeutic+value+of+talking+to+yourself https://duckduckgo.com/?q=therapeutic+value+of+talking+to+yo...). We also tend to have conflict resolving inner monologues all the time, in addition to conflict resolving dreams that sometimes create entire worlds for us. So... with those two things in play - I like the idea of an AI creating a neural net mimicking (or approximating) the knowledge and (public) personality of past/current people. It could be fun in the same way an immersive film is fun and sometimes insightful. As long as we never lose sight of the fictional nature of the interaction. ---------------- sidenote: Our minds, are in a sense, original materials and assets. It can be argued that they are our intellectual property. It does beg the question if mimicking a person can be protected from any and all pursuits - commercial or otherwise.

wpietri 4y ago
> It could be fun in the same way an immersive film is fun and sometimes insightful. As long as we never lose sight of the fictional nature of the interaction. A good example, but perhaps not in the way you think. Historical films have people who make at least attempt to hew to the historical truth. But despite that, historians have a raft of complaints about movies being fonts of enduring myths. GPT models, at least, don't have any idea about truth at all, and the individual, on-the-fly nature of the content makes it very difficult to catch errors as one would for film.

wpietri 4y ago

> It could be fun in the same way an immersive film is fun and sometimes insightful. As long as we never lose sight of the fictional nature of the interaction. A good example, but perhaps not in the way you think. Historical films have people who make at least attempt to hew to the historical truth. But despite that, historians have a raft of complaints about movies being fonts of enduring myths. GPT models, at least, don't have any idea about truth at all, and the individual, on-the-fly nature of the content makes it very difficult to catch errors as one would for film.