Because we're all going to interact with LLMs a lot more soon, I suspect many more of us will learn how unrewarding it is to converse with computers, except for assistance in accomplishing a task. Knowing that the other speaker understands nothing about your state of mind and can't commiserate even a little with your point of view will discourage social interaction with it, eventually.
Today's 'future shock' over conversant AI is just the leading edge of discovering another form of semi-human intelligence in the world. We'll adapt to it fairly soon, and realize that it's actually less interesting than an intelligent child. It's a fake human. Once we 'grok' that, we'll begin to look past it as a mere robot, just a tool. It will become a utility, a service, but not a friend. It's not human and it never will be.
If you dare, take a look at r/Replika, which had to post suicide help line resources after Replika was updated to no longer allow sex chatting. And that population skews heavily younger, likely confounding variables of growing up in the digital age, plus helicopter parenting, plus pandemic.
I think it's the same with AI art, its am awesome gimmick, of course there will be use cases, but ultimately, it's a party trick, albeit a freaking impressive one.
Similar for deep fakes, very cool, but really limited in actual practical applications.
I remember first playing with Midjourney and Dall-E 2, it was pretty cool but I'm over it.
> Today's 'future shock' over conversant AI is just the leading edge of discovering another form of semi-human intelligence in the world. We'll adapt to it fairly soon, and realize that it's actually less interesting than an intelligent child.
You're assuming the robot's conversational capabilities remain constant over time.
