Tag: friendship

A woman having a good time talking with ai robot friend in cafe

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Peter Biles
Date
July 30, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Creativity, free will, friendship}

AI: The Future of Friendship?

_{Odd visions of dystopia keep popping up in real life in our current social moment.} _{Peter Biles
July 30, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence}

Odd visions of dystopia keep popping up in real life in our current social moment. An upcoming device simply called “friend” is now being advertised. Per the product description, the “friend” is a Bluetooth disk that hangs around a person’s neck and “listens” to the user. It then has the capacity to make conversation by “texting” you at random times of the day, like a human friend might do. The website includes a “frequently asked questions” portion, which is where you can discover what the product is and what it can do. Here’s a bizarre response to the question: “what does ‘always listening’ mean”: When connected via bluetooth, your friend is always listening and forming their own internal thoughts. We Read More ›

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Peter Biles
Date
January 3, 2024

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
community, friendship, loneliness, Social Isolation, social media, Tech, Technology}

You Can Be Social and Still Be Very Lonely

_{Machines can't meet our need to be known and understood.} _{Peter Biles
January 3, 2024

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Technology}

Technology speaks to efficiency and convenience but ultimately can't know you like a person could. Read More ›

Couples Dancing And Drinking At Evening Party

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News
Date
April 12, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
community, friendship, social media, society, Technology, The New Atlantis}

Friendship in the Technological Age

_{Even though our generation has a bad set of cards, how can we respond?} _{News
April 12, 2023

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Technology}

It is easy to criticize social media, new technology, and artificial intelligence. To be fair, the automobile and the smartphone alone are at least partially to blame for how fragmented and isolated we’ve become as Americans. But it’s also necessary to find hope and a sense of solution. Leaving it at the negative can be depressing and leave us feeling more helpless than hopeful. Clare Coffey is a writer from Idaho who acknowledges the ways technology has transformed our society, in many ways for the worse, but then recalibrates the discussion around solution in a new article from The New Atlantis. Even though our generation has a bad set of cards, how can we respond? Coffey offers a bullet point Read More ›

Metaverse and 3D simulation. Portrait of young woman in VR glasses creates mesh sphere. Dark background with neon abstracts. The concept of virtual reality and futurism

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Peter Biles
Date
November 1, 2022

Categorized
Social Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, community, COVID-19, friendship, Mark Zuckerberg, Metaverse (living in metaverse)}

Is Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Doomed to Fail?

_{Meta is losing loads of money, putting the whole metaverse project into question} _{Peter Biles
November 1, 2022

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Social Media}

Over the last two years, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poured millions of dollars into his immersive metaverse project, which he believes represents the future of digital technology. We’ve seen ad campaigns for the Meta virtual reality headsets, a total rebranding of Zuckerberg’s company, and an unquestioned optimism about the efficacy and popularity of online life. But the company Meta is losing money. Lots of it. Zuckerberg pledged to spend $10 billion a year towards the metaverse over the next decade, showing how committed he is to achieving his vision. The company, however, plummeted this past year, losing approximately $600 billion of its market value. People simply aren’t investing in it as Zuckerberg anticipated, and even certain Meta executives doubt Read More ›