You Have a New Memory

My guess this is an example of a budding genre that will examine the differences between having relationships with humans albeit &quot;artificially&quot; enhanced vs having &quot;relationships&quot; with purely artificial humanoids connected to the &quot;internet&quot; (or whatever the enormous hive-mind of all knowledge, wisdom and calculated attempts to make us buy things will be called moving forward).<p>Some people will likely still prefer the former, for the foreseeable future.

I am genuinely concerned about the author&#x27;s mental well-being. This is not an ad hominem attack. Based on the limited sample size of this one article, I am genuinely worried. I sincerely hope they are aware of the help available and are willing to seek it. As someone who also struggles with mental health and has recently sought help beyond medication, I have become more attuned to mental health issues in others.

I don&#x27;t know, but this seems kind of a repeated argument over new technology we are not able to understand. Even cars&#x2F;motorbikes were (although mainly jokingly) assumed a man&#x27;s partner.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that it is unsettling, but I just want to point out that many of the &quot;weird&quot; behaviours are mainly dependent on the subject (person) and not the object (smartphone&#x2F;internet&#x2F;socials).