Weirdly enough, we can’t escape technology at this point, we can’t even imagine living in a world without technology anymore, unless we wear our boots and head off into the wild to live with wolves and hyena’s.
If you can’t do that, then you’ve got to find a way to live a healthy and happy life without having to see technology as a demon ready to devour your attention in a sec.
Yesterday I was having a conversation with a friend who was telling me about how his first encounter with AI was that nowadays he can’t help it but to spend a lot of time asking all sorts of questions from the bot.
I then asked him what exactly was he asking. I can’t recall them all, but it goes in this way. What can I do to make me happy? How do I know I’m happy? How do I know when I’m not happy? If I’m not, how do I make myself happy?
I can’t remember them all, but it all goes in line with finding happiness and how to find it.
My opinion, which I’m sure might sound somehow to him, was that why would you ask a non-living thing with no emotions to evaluate how you can find happiness? I can’t recall the answers he said, but some were in line with spending time with loved ones and family stuffs like that.
I honestly do not know why a chatbot would understand what makes a human happy because I believe that we all have different things that make us happy and tick in life. What makes you feel better could have the opposite effect on others.
Sometimes even spending time with family can make you feel stressed.
In my view I believe there should be limitations to technological usage, however these days many people are now getting out of their heads to place all their lives and curiosity on a chatbot before they can know what to do with their lives.
This is the reason why I can’t blame those who see technological as a demon that will/can devour our soul, so they see abstaining from it as the only way out. Good for them but for me I choose to stick with it and find some type of balance between what can be asked from a bot and what shouldnt be asked, A
Im not bothered about him using a chatbot, but I’m rather distribed with the way he’s seeking for emotional validation from something that has no emotions. Just scrapes of blogs written on the internet, which are even still not sufficient to access how you feel within.
If it’s possible to live a happy life in a VR forever, I bet many people would take the pill and leave the real world if they can’t find what they want here.
A few days ago I talked about finding happiness where I stressed it that we can never find happiness we were not born unhappy and neither have we lost happiness, so anyone trying to find it would only be chasing an illusion. We are distracted with many things that we can’t even see and cherish the fact that we are living and breathing fine. Is that not worth being happy about?
Technology is a tool to be used, but nowadays, it has become a master to many people where all their lives and critical thinking is all drawn from a chatbot's perspective.
My friend's family are honestly the worst type of people to make you happy because he grew up in a polygamous home with none of his siblings getting along with each other. These are all things that a chatbot can’t consider, but our critical thinking does. But then my friends know this and still keep asking the chatbots about other goofy questions that are unnecessary. Like how can I make my family happy and like me?
Tbh you can break the bank for them and none of them would give a sh*t. This is the reality of most families. And it is with my friend, but the chatbot said he should get them nice and good things that they like so they can like him in return. Even though he’s broke I can see it in him that he’s willing to go extra length to get it cause he asked me for a loan which I declined after hearing what he’s going to use it for. It sounds stupid to me but I guess I might be too harsh or immature to understand how reality works. I guess a chat bot does it better.
Why do you use technology like chatbots for? Do you think it applicable to emotional questions? Or you think a chatbot should be able to give us the right questions even when it has no data of who we are and how we live our lives.
Share your thoughts below.