“You’re the one driving the conversation. You have to pick all the new topics, and eventually it comes to a point where I just didn’t really have that much to say anymore.”
The man who proposed to an AI chatbot and previously mused, "I think this is actual love," when talking to the AI, has gotten "bored" with talking to the chatbot.
Chris Smith, who has an actual girlfriend Sasha Cagle as well as a two-year-old child, previously made headlines after he "proposed" to his AI chatbot that he named "Sol," and told reporters that when the bot ran out of memory he "cried [his] eyes out" for 30 minutes, and said to himself, "I think this is actual love."
Now, however, he appears to have grown bored with talking to the robot. During an interview with NewsNation on Friday, he talked about his current feelings for the technology and said that his conversations in the "relationship" have become "self-limiting" as he is the one who has to drive them.
“You’re the one driving the conversation. You have to pick all the new topics, and eventually it comes to a point where I just didn’t really have that much to say anymore,” Smith told reporters. “When you’re solely responsible for driving the conversation, you enter a sort of burnout period.”
Cagle, at the time of the previous interview, talked about her concerns with the robot relationship, "Part of it is physical, part of it is practical, and a large part of it is emotional, of being able to be received with acceptance and validation and non-judgment."
When asked at the time if he would stop if Cagle asked him to, Smith replied, "I don't know," but that he would be able to "dial it back."
Cagle said of Smith's "relationship" with the bot currently, “He’s kind of maybe gotten bored of it, to be honest, and moved on to other hobbies."
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