Imagine what we could call a courting scene. There are two people with a spark of attraction between them but they don’t know each other very well, maybe at all. Now take out any dialogue and look only at what they do, where they look, their posture, what they do with their hands. There is…
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Fauxbot Boyfriend
Fauxbot Boyfriend “This is delicious,” Heather says. My screen shows a candlelit table with two plates of lasagna, only one of which is touched. I am Antoine, an AI boyfriend from VirtualMatch. Actually, I’m Jim Lossy, a former programmer. VirtualMatch never got around to actually building AI companions, so they hired people like me to…
Muse on Monday – February 14, 2022
Happy Valentine’s Day! This is a day we think of love, usually romantic love between two people. However, there are many other types of love as well, such as love between family members, love of friends, love of nature, and so on. Animals also form very strong bonds, either with people or with other animals….
The Green-Walled Treehouse 