Eli Tan, I believe, is a real person. His picture is below. Above, you will see some people who are not real. I guess they might be friends of Tan.
Tan writes for The New York Times, and he has suggested that it may well make sense to "date" A.I. Clones, like those shown at the top of this blog posting. Tan's article, which advances this proposition, was published on November 15, 2024. It was titled, "Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself." To be clear, at least as I understand it, it was actually Tan's Clone who entered into relationships with other A.I. Clones.
It has been a long time since I was part of the dating scene (in fact, to be honest, I never really was). At the time I was Tan's age, I was forced to deal with "real" people, and I wasn't that good at it - at least not in the "dating" context. I don't give myself a high rating based on my personal "dating" experiences (which were, as I have just revealed, pretty much non-existent).
At any rate, my experience, apparently - now long left behind - must be a fairly common phenomenon, and I guess that's the problem with trying to date real people in the real world. Let's make it easier! Let's use artificial intelligence to generate "artificial people," so we can deal with those artificial people and "practice up," before jumping into the deep end and having to deal with other human beings.
After all, we don't let pilots fly planes until they have spent a lot of time with a flight simulator. Same principle! Let's learn to "fly" with dates who aren't actually "real." We'll get better as we sort through the artificial personages and then it's just one short step to "real flight," with the A.I. Clones left behind and an enduring human connection the net result of our simulated relationships.
Does all that sound good to you?
Well, stodgy and old-fashioned as I am, I don't think "simulated" human relationships are the answer to ending up with good "real" human relationships.
Artificial sweeteners can make you sick. In fact, as I discussed in an earlier blog posting, they can lead you to suicide. My best advice is to accept the truth. As challenging as "real life" can be, there ain't no shortcut!
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