Lonely 麻豆传媒映画 could befriend virtual assistants
Virtual assistants could one day help the 25% of 麻豆传媒映画 under 35 who feel lonely, and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to become their friend, a new study has suggested.
The findings were at the fourth annual edition of the Paris Retail Week exhibition, at Porte de Versailles in Paris.
According to a , 25% of 麻豆传媒映画 under 35 feel lonely, and would consider using technology that would allow them to converse with - and even 鈥渂efriend鈥� - virtual assistants.
The AI would be someone to talk to at all times, offer constant company, learn the speaker鈥檚 habits and likes and dislikes, and would not judge them, the suggestions said.
Using technology to appease loneliness or offer support in the lives of young people is not a new idea.
In 2017, found that two million 麻豆传媒映画 aged 15-30 suffered from loneliness. Virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri and Cortana already exist - although they are currently more likely to remind you of the time or compile a shopping list, than to befriend their users.
And the 2013 film, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Spike Jonze, showed a world in which virtual assistants could be a human鈥檚 constant companion, with mixed results.
But, current AI is not at this level yet, with most chatbots or virtual assistants unable to have complicated conversations, understand nuances or jokes, or offer much common sense, researchers say.
Nicolas Miailhe, co-founder and president of The Future Society, : 鈥淲e tend to overestimate the quality of the user experience with conversation assistants as they exist today, even the best ones. Even if we have made huge steps forward with natural language [on assistants], we are far from the richness of a deep conversation.
鈥淲hen a conversation assistant gives you the impression of understanding you, it is based on statistics. It is not intelligence. The AI does not even know that it has answered you.鈥�
Jean-Claude Heudin, researcher in AI technology, : 鈥淐urrent AIs are machines; they are also not allowed to make mistakes. So if your assistant doesn鈥檛 understand you the first time you say something, it won鈥檛 work. We would be more tolerant with a real person, who might ask you to repeat what you said.鈥�
Mr Miailhe : 鈥淚f we imagine becoming friends with a conversational assistant who - because it is a machine - has no conscience or common sense, we are significantly changing the meaning of friendship.鈥�
