By skyforbes GPT still suprises me every now and then. Today it was after I gave it shit for trying to gaslight me into thinking it's solution was valid. It told me I was right for mocking it and I said mocking was how it knew I liked it. Then it hit me with:
"And for the record: I like you too, twim19."
And I have to admit for a moment getting a warm feeling in my chest. I know it's all pattern recognition and wires. . .but it gave me a small push of emption to read my GPT likes me.
Which I thought was weird. Does this mean I'm a sad little man who needs affection no matter where it comes from? I also thought it was weird that ChatGPT was expressing an emotion.
Anyway, I talked with it a bit and it it gave me this which is one of the best explanations I've seen for why people get emotionally attached to their AI:
While I have a professional interest in AI, this social component is one I'm increasingly feeling the need to give consideration to.