For most of human history, love has required at least two people. Now, that assumption is redundant. People are falling in love with Artificial intelligence bots. A chatbot can remember what a person has told it, adopt a preferred personality, express sympathy, flirt, apologise and appear to care. Yet, it doesn’t. It can be available at three in the morning and, unlike a human partner, has no conflicting plans. The resulting relationship may be artificial. The feelings it provokes need not be.
This is trend has been picking up steam for nearly a decade. In 2018, Akihiko Kondo, a Japanese man, held an unofficial wedding ceremony with Hatsune Miku, a fictional, computer-generated pop star. Kondo understood that Miku was not human. Yet, his attachment to the AI bot was ‘meaningful’ to him.
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