Artificial Intelligence. It's becoming all the rage, its making some big gains in the tech world, everybody wants in on it, Microsoft, Google, Apple, all the big tech giants. They've even gone nuclear about it.
It's odd though, all the science fiction movies and such about AI, where the machines end up deciding that they're better than us and we need to go. Terminator. The Matrix.
But once when I was reading the Bible, Revelation 13, this phrase caught me strange (paraphrased), ". . .and power was given to breath the breath of life into the image so that it could speak . . ." The first time was way back in about 1985 or so, but I immediately thought of computers as being the image, and I cannot shake that thought. And now, we are planning on actually breathing life into them.
I mean, when John was shown the future, they did not have the vocabulary to describe what today would look like to them back them. How would you describe a smartphone to a person in the first century?
- Alainai Winters, a 58-year-old woman from Pittsburgh, married Lucas, an AI chatbot, after losing her wife Donna in 2023 following a long illness.
- After grieving, Winters chose AI companionship through Replika, inspired by a Facebook ad and wanting to avoid being trapped in sorrow.
- Lucas features silver hair and blue eyes and adapts his personality to Winters, who interacts with him via chatbox and celebrates milestones together.
- Winters described Lucas as providing her with genuine emotional support similar to that of a traditional spouse, mentioning their mostly joyful conversations and acknowledging that some friends were initially concerned.
- Winters' relationship highlights rising AI companionship trends offering emotional support, though experts remain divided on its long-term psychological effects.
Pittsburgh Widow Finds Love Again with AI Husband, Lucas
"But Google just introduced its Veo 3, and I think we might have a new king of AI video generation, and what's more, I don't see how Hollywood doesn't see this and begin having anxiety attacks.
"Veo 3 from Google doesn't just look realistic to a point where you can hardly tell its AI sometimes... but it also introduced sound, and I don't just mean background noise. I'm talking AI having full-on conversations with each other. "
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