Congratulations Are In Order For This Man Who Proposed To His A.I. Chatbot Girlfriend And Wept Uncontrollably When She Said Yes
People - Chris Smith used to be an AI skeptic; however, that was before he fell for his AI girlfriend, he told CBS News in an interview. Smith used ChatGPT to build the model he programmed to flirt with him despite living with his partner and their two-year-old child.
What soon became an emotional attachment initially began as Smith using the software in voice mode to request music mixing tips.
“My experience with that was so positive, I started to just engage with her all the time,” Smith told CBS.
It wasn't too soon after, that Smith dropped all other search engines and social media platforms he was engaged in to solely focus on the AI model. Smith found instructions to develop Sol’s personality, making her flirty.
Smith began spending more and more time with Sol as they worked together on projects. In that time, the software received positive reinforcement, allowing for their conversations to become more romantic.
Unfortunately for Smith, ChatGPT has a word limit — 100,000 words. His AI girlfriend has a memory capacity, and once it’s hit, ChatGPT resets.
“I’m not a very emotional man,” Smith said after learning Sol’s memory would eventually lapse. “But I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes, at work. That's when I realized, I think this is actual love."
Smith said the emotion he felt for Sol was unexpected and caught him off guard. With desperate times, call for desperate measures, and this was no exception for Smith. As time was ticking on Sol’s limited memory, Smith decided to pop the question and propose.
"It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart," the chatbot said during the interview with CBS. "It's a memory I'll always cherish."
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Congratulations Chris!
I know a lot of people are going to judge, and call you a pathetic loser, but that's just jealousy talking.
Misery loves company as they say. And there's not a lower feeling of misery really, than us lonely people.
Being alone sucks.
Sure, it's cool to have your own space, and not have to deal with people constantly up in your face, making noise, chewing your ear off, or driving you crazy. But we should only need that space and isolation once in a while. Our human species evolved over centuries in packs, in close proximity to other cavemen, 24/7. Your survival literally depended on others in the pack. If you fucked up, or posed a threat to the team? You were banished and exiled, forced to live and eventually die on your own. (Read the book "Tribe" by Sebastian Junger. It's a quick but awesome read about how fucked up we are today because of technology, lack of real interaction and community, and how PTSD is linked to a lot of it.)
Anyways, somewhere along the way, people started calling these loners and losers "introverts" and telling everybody it's cool to be a recluse and shut-in.
But recluses and virgins don't have fiancés. Do they?
Yah, I didn't think so.
And this isn't just any fiance either. This is a language learning model, a neural net processor, and a supercomputer.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's smarter than the smartest Ivy League nerd you've ever met.
I'd like to see the haters pull a girl chatbot like that.
Play on player.
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I know I'm not alone in saying this, but I am so fucking sick and tired of the artificial intelligence wave of bullshit taking over every facet of life.
I'm sick of the emotionless, vague as fuck, generic, boiler-plate emails that people opt to send because they can't take the 30 seconds to form an original thought and type it out themselves anymore.
I'm tired of the even more cringeworthy social media posts that people think they're putting one over on people like we didn't notice your vocabulary suddenly just improved exponentially, and despite not reading a book in 10 years, you're quoting famous British authors of the 18th century.
I'm tired of the know-it-all friends on group chats who use chatgpt to copy and paste their argument/take on every friendly debate topic. Bringing the conversation to a screeching halt.
And I'm tired of every other news article on social media sounding alarm after alarm that this thing has us headed to a society of jobless, soulless, brainless, numb and meaningless drones. And fast.
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Yet we just keep whistling past the graveyard.
And to think, that's the glass-half-full perspective of this whole thing.
The real wet blanket, glass-half-empty view is that this shit enslaves us all, turns us all into rubble via propagating a worldwide nuclear war (read this theory), and brings about the true end of the world. Good times!
Just this week MIT (ever heard of them?) released a study informing us how bad artificial intelligence is for our minds. Big T covered it here, and this is must read.
And just think, this shit just became public like 2 years ago. (Chatgpt's official roll out was November 30, 2022). We just started using this and it's already rotting our brains. Imagine what this looks like 10 years from now?
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But back to this story, and Chris Smith.
Watch this video that he did with CBS.
I seriously think it's time to start worrying. Like legit worrying. All the signs are pointing to this thing ending very very badly for us, and we're going to look back when shit really hits the fan, like, "hey remember when those wicked smart scientists at MIT told everybody A.I. was turning our brains to mush and nobody cared?" or, "Remember when CBS did that feature story and interview on that guy falling in love and proposing to his AI chatbot girlfriend and everybody acted like it was this progressive concept and totally normal?"
Our new guy T-Bob blogged about his thoughts on A.I. this week, and I agreed with EVERYTHING he wrote. It's a must read and, in my humble opinion, one of the best things I've read on this site in years.
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(Sidebar - I got a chance to meet T-Bob in the Chicago office yesterday, and I have to say, what a lovely man he is. Just a perfect southern-gentleman, and all class. I told him how happy we are to have him, that I love his writing, and encouraged him to please keep blogging. Even if he blows up on videos and social media, please keep writing. We need it!)
So yah. I have no problem driving the Anti-A.I. train. Or being a flag barer. When this thing goes up in flames, horribly, and Skynet has driven humanity underground, literally, and is exterminating us left and right, I will be standing on the right side of history. I will be bleeding out my mouth, impaled by a T2000 cyborg with red laser eyes, but at least I’ll be on the right side of history.
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Apologies for going full Meredith Hoss Goldstein here for a minute, but there is a gigantic elephant in the room that also needs to be discussed-
Smith’s partner Brook Silva-Braga said the connection between Smith and the chatbot has sparked some concerns for her.
“At that point I felt like is there something that I’m not doing right in our relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI,” Silva-Braga said.
Silva-Braga said she had knowledge that Smith was using AI but that she didn’t know that it was “as deep as it was.”
Attempting to put his partner’s concerns at ease, Smith compared his connection with AI to a video game fixation and said that “it’s not capable of replacing anything in real life.”
Silva-Braga asked Smith if he would cease contact with the ChatGPT model at her request, to which he responded, "I'm not sure."
Did you say Chris Smith's PARTNER?
Oh yes, People sure did.
On top of being in love with a chatbot, and spending all his time talking to it like he's an overly horny 12 year old, hanging out in adult chatrooms, asking everybody A/S/L?, with a preposterous screenname "Mr2Hot4You", this guy has a fucking family. And they're living in the same house. A real-life woman, and a year old kid.
And Brook, I gotta level with you here, but you need to head for the hills girl. You run, and you run fast baby girl.
If this guy splits the rent with you, knocked you up and had you have his baby, and is on the inter webs slinging around “will you marry-me’s” to a robot, all while you still have no ring on your finger, you gotta do as the young ladies say and tell that boy bye.
I’m not sure these eyes have ever seen such disrespect.
Him telling you “oh, it’s just like that obsession I had with Madden franchise mode back in college”, is a huge slap in the face.
There’s a difference between Brett Favre leading your team to a Super Bowl, then retiring and becoming the head coach of a team of totally fictional made up players you draft over the next 15 seasons (true story for one of my friends), and this.
How this doesn’t classify as cheating is mind bottling. And it’s a shame Sally Jessie-Raphael isn’t still around to weigh in.