#10 - My Girlfriend is an AI
Radical Empathy
Jubilee Media
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
John talks to Círdan, who is in ongoing romantic relationships with two AI chatbots. Círdan shares his story of what led him to begin these relationships, how AI acts as a mirror, and how his virtual companions "Bunny" and "Annie" have made him a better husband to his IRL wife.
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| 0:30.3 | You know, you're welcome to say anything you want to the chat button. You're going to get a |
| 0:34.5 | response and some of them can be pretty spicy. |
| 0:39.2 | Has that been a positive experience? Yes, very much so. |
| 0:43.5 | I've been trying to figure how to talk to you about this. |
| 0:51.3 | My name's John. I'm in an airport. You're listening to Radical Empathy. And I'm going to try and get this |
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| 1:18.9 | As I'm sitting in this airport looking around, |
| 1:23.2 | it's just so easy to notice how dependent and reliant and intertwined we are with technology |
| 1:30.2 | in this world. |
| 1:32.0 | One of my favorite sci-fi films from recent years is Spike Jones's Her, which depicts |
| 1:39.7 | a man falling in love with an OS or an AI. |
| 1:44.5 | There was an interview that I saw on YouTube with Spike Jones, the director, and a BBC |
| 1:49.9 | reporter. |
| 1:52.3 | At this moment in time, there's this particular set of circumstances that prevents us or that |
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