Ray D'Arcy

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Everybody cites COVID as a global reaction to a global problem.

But COVID was very tangible.

People were getting it themselves.

They were seeing loved ones died.

They were seeing pictures from Italy or wherever it was of hundreds of ambulances queuing up and all that.

So it was very tangible.

So as a result, the whole world got together and developed a vaccine.

I can't see that happening with AI anymore.

I suppose it's difficult for people to grasp what it is because it's multifaceted.

Yes.

And as you say there, it's the obvious one of chat GPT or having a counsellor in the form of an AI bot.

And then there's the unseen stuff of all the algorithms and all the stuff that's working underneath the bonnet, if you like, that people don't get.

And then the jobs thing, and people are saying, some people are saying it is going to take all our jobs.

Some people say it's going to enhance our jobs.

Then you have some people saying it's going to develop a cure for cancer.

So there's a lot going on and a lot of mixed messages.

But let's go back to the parasocial thing, as you've called it.

Yeah.

And the fact that you consider a lot of the AI bots, chat GPT, to be sociopaths.