A tech executive recently said A.I.
girlfriends is a billion-dollar industry.
The horror, the horror.
and girlfriend became a chilling promise of things to come.
The anonymous man even described his A.I.
dating apps as comfort at the end of the day.
The market cap for Match Group is $9B, Isenberg wrote.
Someone will build the AI-version of Match Group and make $1B+.
After all, science fiction cinema has been warning us for years about such an app.
That is until she outgrows him.
Whether it was a serious science fiction consideration about the influence of artificial intelligence on our future is debatable.
She even offers to light her man a cigarette.
Of course the fire doesnt actually work because… she isnt real.
Joi is the latest model in a billion-dollar industry controlled by the films shadowy, monopolistic corporate powers.
She provides K, who is himself a sentient A.I.
(or replicant), with comfort at the end of the day.
Both movies toy with the idea of A.I.
achieving general intelligence, or more specifically a singularly and demonstrable consciousness.
on our future seem suddenly tangible.
The truth is were only beginning to understand how much A.I.
Apparently, we havent even considered that A.I.
may take social interaction with other humans out of the picturealtogether.
The film was using A.I.
as a flashy way to talk about how tech is changing humansnot replacing them.
Many more young men will be encouraged to spend hundreds (thousands?)
of dollars a year on girlfriends who are neither girls nor friends.
It even gives the somewhat sympathetic portrait of Ks sad existence inBlade Runner 2049a new creepiness.
But hey, theres a billion dollars or more to be made.
