The men who fall in love with their robot girlfriends
This is becoming increasingly common, at least in the tabloids: men who claim to have fallen in love with chatbots. Although it’s not a new sensation—we’ve reported on this phenomenon as far back as 2008—it’s a wonder if it’ll become commonplace now that AI is more sophisticated.
Sometimes it’s hard to snark when you see folks using artificial intelligence as a way to hold on to life. Last year, the SF Chronicle published a story about how one man managed to digitally immortalize his late fiancée with the help of an off-the-shelf AI program called Project December.
