<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Just wait until you are old and lonely… Over a business conference dinner earlier this week we were breathlessly told about how AI bots could make daily phone calls to lonely pensioners to keep them company. I must have been one of the only people womdering how talking to a machine is going to help someone feel less cut-off from people.</p><p>Fuck the future.</p>