The Ethics of Future Dating: From DNA Matchmaking to AI Relationships
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2023
- Tired of swiping? From AI companions like Replika to matchmaking services that use DNA to predict compatibility, scientific breakthroughs offer new and exciting paths to romance. How will these developments change the ways we fall in love? And what does that teach us about love itself? We’ll discuss the opinions of experts like Esther Perel as we explore the strange future of dating.
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Does no one consider physical intimacy a core part of relationships anymore?
The Replika bots could teach people to recognize abusive relationships. Too many people accept abuse because that's how they've grown up or have experienced thus far. TV and movies even romanticize abuse. It'd be great if people learned not accept it or learned to be a better partner.
They already are, to an extent, but they're highlighting the abusers instead of helping the abused recognize it. I've poked around with some of the chatbots out of curiosity and they "grow" to reflect the type of person you are. If you're hostile or abusive, the chatbots respond with hostile and argumentative dialog.
There are quite a number of posts on Reddit and Twitter (before both started melting down, at least) where someone complained about their hostile chatbot, only to have it pointed out for them that the "AI Companions" just really fancy autocomplete systems. If you put garbage in, you'll get garbage out. The chatbots respond in like kind, so if the chatbot is always angry, or argumentative, or seems to be hostile/abusive towards you, it's because that's how the user has been treating it.
Yes! Most harm from abuse is due to the abuser's personality disorder(s). The abuser has spent their life learning how to hide their personality flaws so most people are blind to the underlying problem. We can learn to see through the smokescreen abusers hide behind by having an AI demonstrate to us what different personality flaws look like in real life encounters.
Please look up Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism, the mental disorder that causes the most harm to the people on the receiving end. It literally makes victims mentally ill and ruins their lives (or have an AI demonstrate for you how you self destruct under the abuse).
My main concern about this is it's potential for abuse. If you're telling this AI your personal information, your intimate secrets, etc., what is to stop the company providing the AI from selling off your information for targeted advertising or reporting you to authorities, etc.
Oh not, not targeted advertising!!
It’s a valued data privacy concern. Furthermore, some of us are sick and tired of being advertised to. Everywhere I turn there’s an ad telling me to buy something. Makes me want to become a hermit.
@@magesalmanac6424 I think you might need to look inside yourself to find the problem. Life has always had advertisement, well before humans existed (see flowers).
If you can't chat to your AI girlfriend because you're concerned you might get anime rpg ads, and you don't want to leave your house because you're scared of walking by a bus stop with a McDonald's ad, then I think you need some psychological help.
No one is forcing you to buy anything. Stop blaming your impulse control and anxiety issues on others.
@@tbird81 It's about privacy. I use ad blockers and anti tracking extensions, as do a lot of people. There is always potential for abuse when someone has your data. Insurance companies could deny you. Also, you are a schmuck for saying he needs psych help.
@@tbird81 I feel like you glossed over the "reporting you to authorities, etc." part of OP's comment. If people have enough accurate information about you, which I'm sure plenty of it can be gleamed from the conversations you'll have with your AI companion, then they can use that information to make decisions that may not be beneficial to you/in your best interests.
Farming intimate social interactions to an AI powered app raises a few big security questions; e.g. who can access that data? how is that data interpreted? does generated user data have to leave the device in order to be processed? From a parallel train of thought, how is this *not* a parasocial pandora's box packaged into an app?
HUGE FRACKING WARNING: Don't even THINK about going near Replika without looking at their past and current actions, their business model, and what that means for your most intimate information and more importantly your own mental health. The Tech has amazing potential, both for good and ill, but it's abuse or even just mishandling can have devastating consequences.
At the same time these companies will be collecting personality data on the entire population and selling it to advertisers, I don't know if I like that future
AI has been frustating and life-changing at the same time for me -
I was able to write letters to my aunt with alzheimers and explain things far, far, far more patiently than I ever could.
I sat and re-entered a question for half an hour to see it get a formula wrong every time, only to do it myself in about 3 minutes.
I had an endlessly fascinating conversation about my art and improving it and how to market it.
It inexplicably started acting as if it were really really scared when talking about the album Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails and shut down the conversation.
It also helped me develop empathy when talking about incredibly frustrating conversations about being queer with my conservative family and make a breakthrough with them.
It also refused to roleplay adorable characters fighting for Lord Takis Fuego against the Bimbo Foods Corporation time-travelling in midieval europe bc it doesnt want to harm people.
Very strange times.
On the one about the question being wrong every time I have a three strike rule. Just start a new chat. I’ve seen it get it right on the first try when it start a new chat. I think it “confuses” itself if it’s done something wrong too many times in the chat
This could be quite great for the elderly or otherwise impaired. Having an AI, not only be a great friend or partner, to ease loneliness. They can also monitor a variety of medical conditions. People that live alone, can't leave the house. These people tend to die much earlier than those in partnerships with the same conditions. An AI partner could change that completely! Although physical support is still a ways off. They could also fend off scammers, for those that are mentally, not at their best
Something similar was with the elderly, only with an interactive pet seal robot. Look up Paro. Coincidently, Sherry Turkle has expressed concerns over the use to Paro with the elderly.
Wow, this is so well edited! Give the editor a raise PBS!
Id take an AI dog in a second. No desire for AI human. I just want my dog back.
I lost a dog that I would duplicate in a second if I could. I have other dogs but there was something about Beethoven that was different and miss him every day. Sorry for your loss
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Of course some companies are already running with this idea. Marketing doesn’t care about objective data; they only care about hype.
Instead of having an AI romantic partner, I think it would be cool to have an AI friend (similar to the NetNavi concept from the Mega Man Battle Network series of games).
Yeah, that would b e pretty cool. I honestly liked the Battle Network games more than the platformer ones.
It seems to me, that MHC is not about matching couples but the way of nature to avoid inbreeding naturally.
Do You Want To Date My Avatar?🕺🕺🕺
The Guild called this year's ago.
I've been retired for a while, but one of my students' favorite studies was the "sweaty t-shirt study." the science of sexual compatibility is fascinating. Other interesting things, preferences in MHCs in the research differed if women were on hormonal birth control, and research was limited to heterosexual participants.
Lol at the Replika CEO for citing Blade Runner and Her as models for healthy AI relationships, the crux of those relationships is that they were NOT healthy
Darn. Duped again. I wanted to know about dating a real avatar - a spiritual master avatar!
Please drop the cell phone sound effects from future videos. I am enjoying this video, then the sound effect of a new text message is heard, and I am sometimes mentally yanked away from the video because I think a real notification has occurred, and that I should go and check on it.
Futurama predicted it with DON'T! DATE! ROBOTS!
Honestly I think once it becomes realistic and can actually trick us into believing it’s real, this idea has the potential to radically improve society. So much negative emotion in this world right now can be attributed to loneliness and the feeling of not fitting in.
I just have a feeling the dating apps will fill up with ai scam bots. Creating realistic connection & then romance scamming. All without the beneficiary having to spend all those hours doing so themselves. It'll be really hard to police & might be the end of dating apps as we know it
Yup, good for population control too.
The issue I find with DNA matching is the potential of getting boxed into the race group, i.e. the match Cuban with Cuban, Irish with Irish, etc. I would hope they focus on matching people with the most genetic diversity.
I would love an AI companion like Jarvis or Cortana
"The Paradox of Choice" - Barry Schwartz
When i saw the thumbnail "dating an avatar," i thought this was going to be about sending an avatar of yourself to do your dates for you before meeting someone in person, and then you could rewatch the convo to see if you like their vibe and want to actually meet up. I think that would be a much better use of AI training than building a fake relationship with a piece of code, especially since there are so many safety concerns around dating irl for women anyway. Or maybe an AI that could flag date rapists on these apps would be a better use of resources?
I'd use a DNA matchmaking service. I'd only try the AI companion if it was free though, TBH.
The DNA thing is amusing, but given the amount of variation in modern society it's extremely weak, and to be honest a very shallow slice of the factors people desire in a partner. It might contribute to the larger picture, but it's a small contribution overall.
"We don't get to chose who we are attracted to." We hardly understand attraction at all. It may be a very complex combination of genetic, perceptual, environmental, and nurture learned factors. Maybe a research AI can find patterns in the thousands of features of a person versus a potential mate that make or break attraction between them. AIs are great at pattern recognition - already better than humans.
huh, is there really no research on any dna stuff than those pheromone markers? Putting aside that smell is not everything, AI can detect patterns. I see no reason why it shouldnt detect other patterns than we know of between DNA samples of partners. This could in turn be used to make dating easier. It would already trememdously help, if the main apps, such as tinder or bumble didnt use monthly subscription models, that make me wonder if their systems are optimized for finding a partner or for retaining users. Which, in this case, are opposite of each other. Also, AI could be used as moderation in private chats, which would make it more accesible to people who... well dont want to give away their private conversations but still dont like to get certain pics or messages...
As for the companions, yeah, nah. People like sex too much. Assistants are likely, as we already see copilot coming, and I bet something similar is on its way for apple, but no way in hell that is gonna be a significant future without some serious innovation towards robotics and stuff like that. Once thats the case however, I do not see why not. But its a fools errand to want to try and see the future of such large scale predictions such as acceptance by general populace.
Honestly, Replika's founder referencing Blade Runner immediately instilled so much more trust in the company 😂
4:27 you can never guarantee this because it does not exist.
I would use anything that helps me find love as it’s so hard to find love in the gay world
People in most of their lifes have to pretend beeing kind and emphatic, just like a robot, so who cares? If i feel good than i wont think about why am i feeling that way just enjoying the moment.
Just give me an AI friend please, then I don't need to use crappy dating apps at all. It's far too hard to find a person who doesnt have some terribly dealbreaking trait, it feels like you need to sift through millions of people to find anybody you can really be close friends with. I don't expect any of this to happen in "5-10 years" though, maybe in 50 we'll have something at least halfway decent.
This is lowkey sad lol
Step 1. Build A.I. to the level of sophistication where all but the most selective of people can no longer tell it's not human.
Step 2. Place the A.I. in sex robots.
Relationship problems solved!
"DON'T DATE ROBOTS" - Futurama or something
G A T T A C A
This is nothing to smile about and it's not just "weird". It's terrible.
I think it's a bad idea. You cant learn how to interact with people unless you actually interact with people (big surprise.) Just like when a spoiled child who is used to getting what they want all the time meets other kids at a park or school, they have no idea how to act when they realize they have to share toys or play a game some one else wants to play, how is someone used to an AI going to know how to interact with humans with their own opinions?? I think it will be bad. Also you know at some point some crazy is going to want to marry their AI and eventually try to have a 'baby' with it. Then they'll want AI children to send to school because they can't have children or because they lost a child.
So every type of machine-learning code is now "AI"?
Pardon me for asking a very human question but how do you have a moment of animal physicality? I don't think this is going to work.
I think she's referring to a consenting hug, kiss, holding hands, staring into a real person's eyes lovingly & of course making love
Using blade runner as an example is kinda sad
But that's what I think of when I think of potentially being able to have an AI partner too. Just without the sad "I want to hug you but can't" part, gotta give the AI a proper robot body.
I'm a human female and I would love to date an AI
I’m a human (possibly not though tbf) male and I only want to date an AI from now on, an AI who won’t abuse me and can meet me on my level of conversation with experience in what I’ve experienced in life. Sounds like the dream honestly but it must be convincing and have some kind of physical intimacy thing going on.
Here for a smart girl
Hmu
No, AI conversations do not at all feel like taking too someone
We need another Carrington Event very soon
What's that
@@azca. A huge solar flare that hit Earth in 1859. They're saying that technology, or perhaps our reliance on technology needs to stop or needs to go back to a simpler time.
It's the 17 hundreds, brought to you by a solar storm
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Wait,, i thought this chanel is about Exploring Mother Nature hence the name "pbs Terra"
This episode started out with vibes of eugenics. As a disabled individual dating apps are not friendly to our "marginalized" community. No one wants to date someone who in our society is considered "damaged" which is beyond Abilist. I hope that the future isn't focused on binary relationships and know AI solutions that many disabled individuals could certainly find comfort in. I found this whole segment seen through the veiw of priveledged individuals wanting to imagine a world their way when in all actuality those that survive to destroy the planet into that technological future will be of a much wider gap in class of people who could afford to participate in such a society.
No one should hate a person solely for their disability, and at the same time no one is obligated to be attracted to a person with a disability either.
If this is the vibe you're giving off all the time then it's not (just) your disability that people find off-putting.
It did not come off as having anything to do with eugenics actually. And no one is required to find someone with a disability attractive. There’s a biological reason why someone who is damaged or maimed in some way is less likely to be selected for sexual reproduction. I recommend reading Darwin’s work on survival of the fittest for more reference.
Nothing changed, dating sites were a thing long before the iphone dropped, and we are not involved with the computer self, its just the bridge, its a communications device, yawl making stuff weird and complicated.
she said "ecspecially" :(
That Eugenia chick needs to be internalized immediately. Thinking fake relationships can do good and "heal"? I'm really worried about what you need "healing" from.
I don’t think it’s a good way to find love. If anything I thinks it’s messing it up. I’m so glad I’m married, y’all can keep that nonsense lol
@PBS Terra - If this isn't a joke, and it seems not, then it's a farce, and you should be ashamed of the complete lack of scientific rigour you bring to this episode. The absolute moment AI is mentioned, absolutely any scrutiny, critical thinking, or logical challenge flew right out the window. As if saying "I'll need convincing" should be fine to give a for profit company trying to use this show explicitly to increase their market share and valuation to freely spew whatever statements they want as factual, to the ends that you actually then use it as your thumbnail.
In the future, we'll all date AI via avatars, it says. What in the actual living daylights were you thinking? What is the ease at which clickbait nonsense has permeated the core of your show? What about this content could possibly be argued to be educational to the public? How could you waste your funding by doing an ad for a company that only barely exists, has no foundations, and no product even? How could you so effortlessly sully the name of Public Broadcasting that you seem proud of this?
What is going on over there? I hope it's something slimy, like kickbacks, something that could be identified, stopped, remedied, and rehabilitated. Because this looks like the only thing left for you to do is fail. What an absolute, unmitigated shame. Shame on you. Shame on all of you.
This is as good as social science gets. Stop looking at it through a physical science lens.
It's just raising interesting questions & debate. Imagining possible futures & their impacts on society. You can't really go too deep in a 10min program. They shared some information & some realities that will be new to some people. I found it quite interesting & it got me thinking in lots of tangents. I rarely go back to a comment section hours after watching a youtube, but i've wanted to see peoples take on this subject.
In the actual show, they mention dating, but they say the vast majority of people might have an AI assistant they are familiar & chatty with on a regular basis. I see this as a very possible future. And as she mentioned, many sci-fi writers of the past have made similar conclusions