Ruo-Ning Li

Well, that's an interesting question because, you know, when we think about what AI is designed, it's actually based on quite a lot of evidence of like what humans actually need, right?

They need someone to always be there listening.

But I think it is probably not about the feature of the AI.

It's rather like the people are knowing they're talking to the AI itself, innately have some influence there.

of how people thinking you know are feeling for example um ai have something that maybe they can never replicate human connection in the sense that they they're always there right there's no cost for them to make the effort to talking to you and it doesn't carry the same um emotional weight when you're talking to another random peer they're kind of like

message you during the busy midterm period of time, you know, and they are spending time with you chatting, that carry a lot of emotional weight way better than the AI.

Another thing is AI doesn't have the broader social network.

Chatting to another human, it can, maybe they can,

kind of like invite you to their study group or they invite you to their tennis practice team, right?

Like it introduced you to a broader social network that AI can never have.

And another like critical thing I think is also important that unique in human connection is that

The AI cannot, it's not like a reciprocal relationship, right?

People feel good when they're giving back and when they're also providing care for their partner or their friend.

So AI doesn't have this opportunity to make you do this and feel good.

So that's probably something fundamentally different of human connection versus AI.