You are talking to a toaster

I recently stumbled upon a TED Daily podcast on AI and the end of loneliness by Paul Bloom. The talk was mainly about the nature of AI responses, how they are overly supportive, and why they are good for the isolated elderly but a danger for the young. Bloom's point was because how AI are built to be supportive in most cases, young users and not getting the pushback that they would normally would with a human. Under the veil, talking to AI is talking to a toaster. They are a network of algorithms to spit out the most sensible answer. AI is a machine, and it does not have emotions. Like billions of people out there, I used AI extensively like a personalized search engine. Because it has the context of my previous chats, the results that it gave me are more likely to be useful than a regular Google Search. I used it for engineering school to teach me concepts in a more conversational way; I asked endless questions with different perspectives, "why this and not that" kind of questions. I…