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I suspect we're a long way from technology actually being able to trick our brain (all of it) into thinking it's in the presence of real companionship. Similar

I suspect we're a long way from technology actually being able to trick our brain (all of it) into thinking it's in the presence of real companionship. Similar to why social media, despite "everyone being on there and available to everyone," doesn't seem to mitigate loneliness.

diggan 3y ago
> I suspect we're a long way from technology actually being able to trick our brain (all of it) into thinking it's in the presence of real companionship. I remember the first time I played Echo VR. I'm not sure it was because I wasn't used to VR, because of the duration I played the first time or what, but the first minutes after removing the VR headset, I had some sort of disassociation with my arms in real-life. That must have been back in 2017/2018 sometime. Add in current generation of voice recognition and generation, better performance for both headsets and the games themselves, LLM to help the "partner" to feel more alive regarding behavior and I think you could get pretty close to "fooling" someone if they use it enough. I'd guess something like that would make loneliness worse in the world though, rather than better.