I think this is a boringly naive take, and generally I think the author is quite a techno optimist transhumanist type and that is blinding him to some realities.<p>The first of those I see, which is contentious among tech people, is that AI is not intelligent at all, but I won't dwell on that, we have all had that discussion quite a number of times.<p>Men achieve for the admiration of women. Men don't achieve for the admiration of something that's going to show admiration whether you achieve or not. Nobody ever chronically jerked it to pornography and was inspired to achieve anything. A hooker cannot be a muse, except in that they might motivate you to have enough money to pay them again next time. In that sense, a crack rock can be a muse, and the word "muse" becomes meaningless.<p>You can say "we can design an AI that encourages achievement" but if social media is an indicator, it's more profitable to give people what they want emotionally while requiring little effort from them, no AI company trying to break into the AI girlfriend space is going to be financially motivated to withhold admiration, only real people with real wants, needs and expectations do that.<p>I'm sure there are some subset of men that want to achieve but just need their frustrations sated, and this might work for them, but that's not most men. And even then, that ignores the fact that, just like pornography or social media or fast food, it's empty calories, it fools your endocrine system into thinking you've got something of substance, it doesn't actually nourish, and we all see and feel the impact of that.