I don’t know about curing loneliness but when I wrote our bot for doing code reviews I was quite thrown back by how positive and sympathetic the feedback was compared to my peers. It felt like my bot human than us humans!
Was it fake? Sure. I mean I instructed it to praise good changes after all. But it still felt good.
And now I’m noticing another effect, my human peers have started mimicking some its behaviours.
Was it fake? Sure. I mean I instructed it to praise good changes after all. But it still felt good.
And now I’m noticing another effect, my human peers have started mimicking some its behaviours.