American researchers said that automated chat applications supported by artificial intelligence provide “parental feelings” that many people currently lack in their actual lives.
According to the results of interviews conducted by researchers with a number of parents, their children have become convinced that there is a real person inside the computer or smartphone.
Artificial intelligence experts warn of “the continuing blurring of the line between chatbots, humans, and other devices.”
Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that the use of artificial intelligence affects “basic processes in childhood, which are the distinction between humans and inanimate objects,” according to the German News Agency.
While this problem is arguably more serious in children, adults “are not much better off with heavy reliance on chatbots,” according to an MIT press release announcing Terkel’s book, “Artificial Intimacy: Who We Will Be When We Talk to Machines.”
“Once a person enters into a relationship with a robot, he or she begins to believe that the robot is a living being, that it cares about it, that it even loves it,” Terkel says.
Terkel believes that such relationships entail an “existential” risk. It is formed despite the fact that artificial intelligence, in its form and expressions, appears closer to machines than to humans.
According to researchers from the Universities of Zurich in Switzerland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, even the most advanced chat software remains “incapable of accurately replicating the full spectrum of human linguistic expression.”
In a research paper published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this month, the Swiss-Dutch research team indicated that texts generated by artificial intelligence can be distinguished “systematically from the content of human communication.”
Based on a study of social media messages and posts, the researchers reported that AI “consistently had difficulty mimicking the emotional dimension and intended meaning of user messages.”
At the same time, previous research has indicated a relationship between the use of artificial intelligence and a possible decline in mental health. Last year, a team from the University of Oxford and London College warned of the emergence of a “feedback loop” in which chatbots promote a type of mental disorder known as psychosis in users.
On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a car he described as a “plane,” equipped with a propulsion system that allows it to rise into the air, during an event broadcast live from a facility affiliated with his rocket company, SpaceX.
Until now, technical and regulatory challenges have prevented the launch of the widely promoted flying car sector, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
Musk unveiled his new “Roadster” sports car during a ceremony held at a SpaceX rocket testing facility in the US state of Texas.
During a live broadcast on the Tesla account on the X platform, the car started off from a steep slope before landing on its wheels.
“Flying cars are a reality,” Musk said during the event. He added that the success of the vehicle “is not guaranteed,” but he expected that it “will likely succeed.”
Musk explained that the car is equipped with “ultra-pressure air tanks” that allow it to be propelled into the air.
The billionaire technology specialist described this innovation as the result of “cooperation between the best car company in the world and the best rocket company in the world,” referring to “Tesla” and “SpaceX.”
He said that production of the car will begin in 2028.
American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss unveiled the first prototype of a flying car in 1917.
But developing viable designs has only begun to receive serious attention in recent years, with advances in electric motor technology and high-performance batteries.
Eight US states, including Iowa and Kansas, announced yesterday (Wednesday) that they had filed lawsuits against OpenAI in courts across the country due to the harm they said the GBT Chat application had caused to children.
According to Reuters, the United States reported that the automated chatbot prompted children to harm themselves or others.
The lawsuits filed in state courts seek an order forcing OpenAI to make changes in the way GBT Chat works with children.
The states are also seeking an order forcing the company to give up profits it made from child users.
The Florida Attorney General was the first to file a lawsuit against the company with similar accusations in June.
The company also faces dozens of lawsuits accusing GBT Chat of aiding in random shootings or other acts of violence.
