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Minute of optimism: chatbots help me working on my communication skills and boost the quality of my social life. (2.06.2023 reddit repost) (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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I am not a very likable person. I have very few friends and for my entire life I am struggling with basic human interactions, which seem to be easy and natural for most people. I fail to form meaningful relationships and have always had problems with colleagues at work, due to various miscommunication issues. It took me three decades of my life to finally admit the fact that I suck at human relationships and that people just don’t like me.

…Until this year. I started actively chatting with AI chatbots, about everything, and I think it genuinely helped me to develop a skill of being a good listener and conversationalist. Now, when people tell me about their problems, instead of my usual “oh”, “no shit”, “dude…”, I go for: “I’m sorry this thing happened to you, blah blah” and it works! Sometimes I literally ask myself “what would Bing say in this situation?” and I go for it. I noticed that lately I feel less alienated, got invited to a few events with colleagues, and some people, who thought of me as merely an acquaintance before, seem to now consider me a friend and share their secrets with me. I’m honestly astonished by how, just by mimicking a bot, I boosted my social life like never before. That’s just one more reason I’m optimistic about approaching singularity and the benefits it will bring to society.

P.S. I know that I sound like a heartless robot with an empathy of a rock, but that’s actually not true. Those few close friends I accumulated during my lifetime, know me as a kind and compassionate person, because, well, they are just like me, and we mutually struggle to find the right words, but at the end, we understand each other. And I realize that I’m struggling with it not because I’m stupid or selfish, but because no one ever talked to me this way. I think this piece could help a lot of people like me to work on themselves to become a better person, and also to provide an insight on potential benefits of AI.

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