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Humans are complicated and relationships can be messy, so people falling in love with chatbots may be unsurprising. Chatbots are available 24/7, hang on your every word and never ask anything of you. Amelia Miller, a human-AI relationship coach, sees danger in relying on bots for intimacy and companionship.
Read the original →Yukai Engineering made public on October 14 a free resource for developers of communication robots with generative AI. It contains design guidelines that address excessive dependence and false beliefs, and a checklist of 39 items.
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