AI“数字幽灵”：错误频出仍获哀悼者慰藉

Would you speak with an AI-generated “ghost” of a deceased loved one? The idea might seem creepy or cathartic. To 16 volunteers, such conversations were often comforting, even when the chatbot invented facts, information scientist Jack Manning and colleagues reported at the Designing Interactive Systems Conference in Singapore. The results suggest that, for people open to using such technology, AI ghosts need only to meet emotional and social expectations to feel real. Manning, of the University of Colorado Boulder, was surprised by how much the volunteers enjoyed speaking to an AI ghost. He feels a strong aversion to the idea of interacting with a digital version of his teenage sister, who died when he was 11. …