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Review: Artificially Yours: Real Friendship in a World of Chatbots –
Valerie Tiberius (Princeton University Press)
Anthropologists tell us that only a handful of human experiences can be found
in all human cultures. Among them is the experience of friendship. It might
have different expressions in different times and places, but something akin to
it seems to appear everywhere.
Surely one of the greatest pains a human can endure is to have no friends – to
be outside of every circle of trust, every exchange of confidence, every bond
of love.
Maybe this explains the prevalence of the idea of the mechanical friend. What
if we could build machines that replicated the experience of friendship? Would
we not then triumph over the horror of friendlessness? Defeat the cruelty that
sits adjacent to friendship? Unlock all its benefits and destroy all its
iniquities?
Or is the idea of the mechanical friend somehow much sadder or more pathetic
than having no friends? Would a significant number of us not pity, even mock or
deride, anyone who thought they were friends with a robot, a computer, an
algorithm?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
