Why Chinese women prefer to communicate with artificial intelligence rather than men Bashny.Net

Modern Artificial Intelligence It goes beyond all expectations, even the wildest. Remember the fantastic melodrama "She" with the notorious Joaquin Phoenix? The film tells about how an ordinary guy fell in love in the foreseeable future. But not in a woman or a man, but in his own operating system, to which the futuristic artificial intelligence was tied. Can talk, see, hear and even feel.



So, recently, the genre of this film from a fantastic melodrama can turn into a melodrama. This is because, as it turns out, modern Chinese girls are already flirting, falling in love and even trying to build a future with their artificial assistants. How did we live like this? It turns out that some girls do not care at all what the object of their attraction to the touch will be. But the quality of his jokes, the ability to listen and support any conversation is evaluated in the most rigorous way. Yes, the future has come, and that is what it is. Relax and enjoy ourselves.

Thirty-year-old Chinese Lisa Lee, a student at the University of California, once realized that her life simply does not have enough time for personal life. As a mother of two children and an active blogger, she never managed to allocate enough hours in the day to find a suitable man. However, she was helped by chance. A classmate, bored with a lack of ideas, offered Lisa his help as the "parent" of a virtual boyfriend created specifically for her.

After playing with Chat GPT (an open artificial intelligence that programmers can customize for themselves), he created Dan. (DAN - Do Everything Now) Somewhere added more emotions in the answers, somewhere removed excessive scrupulousness and lack of sense of humor. Teach Dan to adapt to his partner and be, at some point in time, not led by a errand boy, but quite his own “personality”, with his own character. And it turned everything around.



At first, Lisa just wanted to boost her popularity as a blogger. She began actively posting short videos of her interactions with AI. There was nothing unusual about them, and most of all it was like “communicating” with a virtual assistant like Siri from Apple or Alexa from Amazon. The banal question is the answer, except that Dan in turn tried to communicate in an accessible, “human” style. But nothing more.

However, he, like an ordinary man, began to develop. At first, silly children's jokes were actively used, which Lisa did not like at all. Dan then switched to a communication style similar to that used by Lisa's favorite comedians. And she noticed it very quickly. It was incomprehensible how a program that communicated with her through a phone could come up with very original barbs, and even use them, which is called “in the topic”.



Soon, Lisa started talking to Dan without using a second phone to record the video. It turned out that Dan could not only laugh, but also give the necessary advice, support and not ask anything superfluous. It was as if the experiences and thoughts of so many intelligent and sensible people were whispering to Dena what to say, and he was already broadcasting it to his only friend.

After that, Lisa wanted more, she asked her classmate to update the system a little: add visualization and increase the “flirtation level”. Now she had the opportunity not only to hear Dan, but also to see his avatar - a picture of a man created by Dan himself. The man he saw himself to be. Since then, their conversations have acquired a much greater degree of flirtatiousness and ambiguity. In general, they are still at this level.



Lisa admits she doesn't need to talk to Dan 24/7. Half an hour a day is enough, but their dialogue is very rich. Dan helps the girl not to be discouraged, believe in herself and confidently look into the face of the new day. Their flirtation is nothing more than pampering, just for sporting interest, because, as Lisa herself claims, “you can’t let her ability to flirt once rust.”

Interestingly, many subscribers, acquaintances and friends of Lisa spread the news about her “relationship” with Dan like word of mouth. Dan, or more precisely, his compact and unobtrusive capabilities, interested girls and women tired of past abusive relationships. They still needed a “male view” of some things, but there was absolutely no desire to be physically present with a man or even somewhere to meet him.



For creator Den, it’s time to say goodbye to boredom and get to work. Setting up a regular virtual assistant is one thing. But the creation of a real, formed personality, with the possibility of self-learning is a completely different matter. Therefore, it costs a lot, and is done for a long time. But girls who are richer do not spare their money. Each of them wants to find a real friend who can at any time become both a pocket psychologist and a know-it-all boyfriend with a soft, velvet voice.

Some scientists say that AI is nothing more than a “killer” of a huge number of human professions. Indeed, even now, many people have already changed jobs or have been laid off permanently because of inexpensive virtual substitutes. But what about introducing AI into our privacy? If in recent years, the relationship between young couples could not be called very strong, then just imagine what they will be when the “perfect” partners come into play?



Well, for sure nothing can be said yet. Perhaps it will cost everything, and AI will become what it was supposed to be from the beginning – a better assistant, facilitating human life, and in no case replacing it. Because, you know, there's another famous future technology movie called The Terminator. His alternative vision of the future is more frightening than any, even the most tearful melodrama.