前雅虎CEO和早期的Google工程师玛莉莎·迈尔(Marissa Mayer)因她如何使用AI而捕捉到了很多flack. Mayer在接受关于她的新应用Dlash的采访时，一位从你的相机卷中学习的AI助手，她提出她认为是一件令人印象深刻的作品：这帮助她为她十岁的女儿在学校的生日演讲提出三个子弹点
它是一个模糊的描述，就像一个通用的星座——它也许可以描述很多十岁的孩子。
一些旁观者，如进步活动家利亚·格林伯格(Leah Greenberg)惊叹“玛丽莎·迈尔(Marissa Mayer)会自愿向记者透露这个事实，这很好地证明了硅谷文化与人类其他部分的分歧有多深。”
也许 Mayer如此强烈的反弹，因为我们一再观察到庇护的亿万富翁暗示，我们把抚养孩子——这是人生对耐心、谦卑和善良的最大考验之一——外包给一个无法理解人类情感的计算机。
我们为这种挫折准备了条件。 去年，OpenAICEO萨姆·阿尔特曼(Sam Altman)告诉博瑞德猿人老板和深夜主持人吉米·法伦(Jimmy Fallon),“我无法想象。.....想出如何在没有ChatGPT的情况下抚养新生儿。 ” 公众也不喜欢这个评论，几个月前，他在X上的称表示，ChatGPT Work的“冷却使用案例”将建立一个播客，讲述你的孩子即将到来的生日或足球比赛，以及“解释你的孩子的兴趣 ”。 (他被残酷地评价为“如果你只是和你的孩子说话呢？”)
出版后，迈尔在长篇X文章中为自己辩护。 声称并不是依靠Dlash向她解释她的孩子，而是在测试她的原型能做什么——它重现了“被遗忘的幼儿园项目”的照片，如“snake devenomer”或“sandcat游乐场”，说明了她女儿的创造力和对动物的照顾。
不错但Mayer在同一次采访中说，人们也可以使用她的人工智能外包“为孩子的生日派对设计主题”的精神负荷。 她用她的应用为女儿计划一个游戏日期，她甚至建议她的AI助理可以与丈夫的AI助理协调计划。 当记者问她想象“由AI计划无畏的未来”是否令人沮丧时
这些领导人似乎把那些无稽之谈的人当作一个小的愤怒的边缘团体的一部分。 但皮尤研究中心的研究表明，50%的美国成年人认为AI会降低人们形成有意义的关系的能力。 只有5%的受访者称 AI会更容易建立这些连接。
Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)
“我认为一般美国人只有不到三个朋友、三个人会认为是朋友，“一般人比他们想要更多的连接。”
Zuckerberg预测，将我们的情感需求外包给AI治疗师甚至AI浪漫伴侣，将变得更加社会接受。 他补充说，“所有这些东西在物理联系方面都比较好，当你可以拥有这些联系时。” “但现实是，人们[......]感觉比他们想要的更孤独。”
Zuckerberg继续解释人工智能虚构的虚拟现实是如何越来越现实的。 Meta似乎更热衷于改善我们与这些人类的近似关系，而不是每天使用其平台的实际数十亿人类之间的关系。
也许这部分来源于科技产业的文化，它奖励效率。 人们试图用健康跟踪器优化睡眠时间表，或注入不受管制的“床铺”，以最大限度地提高生产率，从而将自己的身体进行生物包装。
如果你正在建造电动车辆或电脑芯片，那么当然，效率就是明显的北极星。 但我们与他人的关系并非科技产品，人际关系本来就是杂乱无章的，但是我们彼此的联系可以使我们的生命有意义。 当我们将这些互动委托给计算机时，我们放弃了作为人的艰难但又能实现的经验。
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Former Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer Marissa Mayer is catching a lot of flack for how she uses AI. In an interview about her new app Dazzle, an AI assistant that learns from your camera roll, Mayer poses what she believes is an impressive flex for the product: it helped her come up with three bullet points about her ten-year-old daughter for a birthday presentation at school, describing her as “empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.”
It’s a vague description, like a generic horoscope — it could probably describe a lot of ten-year-olds.
Some onlookers, like progressive activist Leah Greenberg, marveled that “the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity.”
Perhaps Mayer drew so much backlash because we have repeatedly observed sheltered billionaires suggest that we outsource childrearing — one of life’s greatest tests of patience, humility, and kindness — to a computer that is incapable of understanding human emotion.
We’ve been primed for this frustration. Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Bored Ape owner and late night host Jimmy Fallon on national television, “I cannot imagine … figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT.” The public didn’t love that comment, either, but Altman wasn’t phased by the negative feedback. A few months ago, he said on X that a “cool use case” of ChatGPT Work would be creating a podcast that talks about your kids’ upcoming birthdays or soccer games and “explain[s] your kids’ interests.” (He was brutally ratioed with comments like, “What if you just talked to your children?”)
After publication, Mayer defended herself in a long X post. She claims she was not relying on Dazzle to explain her child to her, but rather, she was testing what her prototype could do — it resurfaced photos of “forgotten kindergarten projects,” like a “snake devenomer” or “sandcat playground,” illustrating her daughter’s creativity and care for animals.
Fair enough. But Mayer remarks in the same interview that people could also use her AI to outsource the mental load of “figuring out the theme for your child’s birthday party.” She says she’s used her app to plan a playdate for her daughter, book family activities on vacation, and decide what to be for Halloween. She even proposes that her AI assistant could coordinate plans with her husband’s AI assistant. When the reporter asks her if it’s depressing to imagine this “frictionless future… planned by AI,” Mayer replies, “I haven’t really thought that through.”
These leaders seem to write off the naysayers as part of a small, angry fringe group. Yet a Pew Research Center study reports that 50% of U.S. adults think that AI will reduce people’s ability to form meaningful relationships. Only 5% of respondents said AI would make it easier to build these connections.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, joins his Silicon Valley kin in envisioning a world where our social needs are met via AI.
“The average American I think has, it’s fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends,” Zuckerberg said last year on a podcast. “The average person wants more connectivity, connection than they have.”
Zuckerberg predicts that it will become more socially acceptable to outsource our emotional needs to AI therapists or even AI romantic partners. “There are all these things that are better about physical connections when you can have them,” he added. “But the reality is that people […] feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like.”
Zuckerberg goes on to explain how virtual reality embodiments of AI avatars are only growing more realistic. Meta seems to be more keen on improving our relationships with these approximations of humans, rather than between the actual billions of humans who use its platforms each day.
Maybe part of this stems from the culture of the tech industry, which prizes efficiency. People try to biohack their own bodies by optimizing their sleep schedules with health trackers or injecting unregulated “peptide stacks” to maximize their productivity.
If you’re building electric vehicles or computer chips, then sure, efficiency is a clear North Star. But our relationships with other people are not a tech product that we’ve been challenged to ship with little capital as possible. Human relationships are inherently messy, but our connections with one another can be what gives our lives meaning. When we delegate those interactions to computers, we surrender the difficult, yet fulfilling experience of being people.
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