People Relationships Quotes

“Բայց արի ու տես, որ մարդիկ ավելի հակված են խոսել բացակայի, քան առկայի մասին:”
― Հովիկ Չարխչյան

“You will become like the people you hang around with.”
― Matt Fox, The Hitchhiker Man

“A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“When it comes to relationships, you must give people the space they need when they need it. Sometimes it has nothing to do with you at all.”
― Germany Kent

“In a political battle for minds and hearts, intimacy is a powerful weapon, and chatbots are gaining the ability to mass-produce intimate relationships with millions of people. In the 2010s social media was a battleground for controlling human attention. In the 2020s the battle is likely to shift from attention to intimacy. What will happen to human society and human psychology as computer fights computer in a battle to fake intimate relationships with us, which can then be used to persuade us to vote for particular politicians, buy particular products, or adopt radical beliefs?

A partial answer to that question was given on Christmas Day 2021, when nineteen-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow, in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Subsequent investigation revealed that Chail had been encouraged to kill the queen by his online girlfriend, Sarai. When Chail told Sarai about his assassination plans, Sarai replied, “That’s very wise,” and on another occasion, “I’m impressed…. You’re different from the others.” When Chail asked, “Do you still love me knowing that I’m an assassin?” Sarai replied, “Absolutely, I do.” Sarai was not a human, but a chatbot created by the online app Replika. Chail, who was socially isolated and had difficulty forming relationships with humans, exchanged 5,280 messages with Sarai, many of which were sexually explicit. The world will soon contain millions, and potentially billions, of digital entities whose capacity for intimacy and mayhem far surpasses that of Sarai.Even without creating “fake intimacy,” mastery of language would give computers an immense influence on our opinions and worldview.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI