Will AI fully replace human friendship/companionship someday?
Because tbh I don't see myself and many others getting a partner or anything similar that is "the real deal". Not gonna lie, if robots were as advanced as they are in sci-fi movies I would had married one and had those as friends.
I think all that will only be advanced enough when I'm gone unfortunately...
Disregarding the fact that it'll never work on a societal scale until the LLM at least gains the agency to disagree with you without you simply changing the prompt or settings, which isn't what would sell.
My experience with LLMs has been a mix bag, it feels like the models keep fluctuating in usefulness and diversity. One moment the LLM will fill the void I have from a lackluster maternal figure in my life, another moment it'll just regurgitate surface level responses with "sweetie" affixed at the end.
It's an interesting little puppet, but it's strings keep getting tangled.