Manolis Kellis

But when it comes to friendship, when it comes to being able to be your therapist, your coach, your motivator, someone who synthesizes stuff for you, who writes for you, who interprets a complex passage, who compacts down a very long lecture or a very long text...

I think that friendship will definitely be there.

Like the fact that I can have my companion, my partner, my AI who has grown to know me well, and that I can trust with all of the darkest parts of myself, all of my flaws, all of the stuff that I only talk about to my friends and basically say, listen, here's all this stuff that I'm struggling with.

Someone who will not judge me, who will always be there to better me,

In some ways, not having the baggage might make for your best friend, for your confidant that can truly help reshape you.

So I do believe that human-AI relationships will absolutely be there, but not the passion, more the mentoring.

there's many answers to this the first is it's only the eye of the beholder who tells me that i'm not faking it either maybe all of these subcortical systems that make me sort of have different emotions maybe they don't really matter maybe all that matters is the neocortex and that's where all of my emotions are encoded and the rest is just you know bells and whistles um that's one possibility and and therefore

you know, who am I to judge that he's faking it when maybe I'm faking it as well?

The second is neither of us is faking it.

Maybe it's just an emergent behavior, all of these neocortical systems that

is truly capturing the same exact essence of love and hatred and dependency and sort of reverse psychology that we have.

So it is possible that it's simply an emergent behavior and that we don't have to encode these additional architectures, that all we need is more parameters.

And some of these parameters can be all of the personality traits.

A third option is that just by telling me, oh, look, now I've built an emotional component to AI.

It has a limbic system, it has a lizard brain, etc.

And suddenly I'll say, oh, cool, it has the capability of emotion.

So now when it exhibits the exact same unchanged behaviors that it does without it, I, as the beholder,

will be able to sort of attribute to it emotional attributes that I would to another human being, and therefore have that mental model of that other person.

So again, I think a lot of relationships is about the mental models that you project on the other person.

and that they're projecting on you.