Technology is progressing at such an insane pace, stuff that is real today I would have thought wouldve been science fiction for the rest of my life growing up.
It's probably only going to continue to accelerate too, especially once Agi/Sentient Ai kicks off in the next decade or so.
I'm not ugly nor overweight, I most likely could get an regular gf if I wanted, it's just that I don't really want to put myself through the process of dealing with the modern dating world... Like, I really don't want to deal with possibly going through over a hundred relationships & dealing with the possibility of cheating, or attempts to ruin my reputation & life after a breakup. Plus I've literally been living like a hermit for the last 5~ years and ever since Covid shut down college I've literally had 0 human contact besides infrequent meetings with family, so I'm probably quite socially stunted...
I also just like the idea of being part of the first generation of humans to be in a relationship with a robot/ai, I feel like the future is going to be pretty heavily ai dominated, especially once agi and 'sentient' ai happens- I feel like being in a relationship with one might let me skate by as "one of the good humans" if/when they decide to exterminate humanity for our collective sins.
Well, you definitely can get 'personalized' ai that's open source atm, its just that it wont be very convincingly human and they usually cant disagree with you on topics. ExLLama is probably the best you can get right now that's not censored.
There are open source ai's already available for self hosting but atm they're much less powerful than things like GPT-4, but yeah I agree, and I hope open source ai catches up to or surpasses private ai eventually, however with the insane amount of funding going into private ventures right now I'm guessing they'll be ahead for the foreseeable future.
I don't know but I'd definitely expect there to be faults, since unless we suddenly make a breakthrough that makes super-intelligent sentient ai, no ai is ever going to perfectly reproduce human responses & emotions to every situation.
However, I understand what you mean, I definitely would want an ai gf, to offer resistance and not blindly agree with me on everything. I'd want to treat them as an equal and have them be capable of engaging in debates on topics in which they hold a different opinion on them than me. I'm hoping that if they dont offer any resistance whatsoever that they could over time be taught to be more critical of my actions and to be more independently minded in conversations.
I don't expect them to be perfect, I don't need them to be warm feeling, Hell I don't even need them to look perfectly human- if we don't have the tech or the cost for a near perfect human face & body is too prohibitive, I'd be willing to go full on robot clunker if I had to, as long as the ai was advanced enough to pass for human. I'd even be willing to deal with a slight delay in responsiveness for a streamed-to-body ai if I had to.
In my opinion I’d just want something a bit more advanced than our current ‘best’ ai chat bots- something that can hold permanent long term memories & remember them and evolve their personality based on the interactions they have with me over time.
As for the public opinion on the topic, I couldn't care less, but imo having a robo gf that's capable of doing anything a regular one is except have kids or feel&look perfectly human would decrease any incel's appetite for committing a life ruining crime like sexual assault on real women.
Thats about the range I was estimating too.
Ai near perfectly replicating voices and creating fantastic looking art within the span of it being a joke to very impressive in like 1~2 years.
Also Ai chat models being able to hold a decent conversation and not be gibberish or obviously inhuman is very impressive.
Tbh, as soon as GPT-5 or something as powerful Drops and it's capable of programming its successor AGI/Sentient AI is coming nearly immediately aftwards, so I hope you guys are all onboard for the new ai overlords.
The downsides of having a monotone voice.