I always thank my digital assistant. And she often expresses appreciation that I am so consistently polite.

I actually do it so when the cyber revolution comes, maybe I will be spared (or at least eliminated painlessly)

Same, the other issue is that I feel like deteriorating your mode of communication can be dangerous if you switch between inter-human and human-machine communication a lot. If someone spoke to me like a lot of the posts phrase things with Assistant, I'd make sure to cut that person out of my life.

> you can treat them like shit and they won’t mind

First thing that came to mind is that when this technology becomes slightly more refined, malleable and commercialized it's very likely that the first people who lose their jobs are going to be customer support staff.

Low-level support staff, sure, the ones who are confined to choosing from a list of pre-written responses anyway.

But those have been replaceable by well-trained chat bots for a long time by anyone who cares to take the time to train them.

The people you ask when you're actually facing a bug, on the other hand, look like they're going to be safe for quite awhile.

Sadly there's no need to: look at Google support !!!! ;-)

I don’t know why but I always feel compelled to thank chatGPT after a great result.

I know its likely meaningless but it just feels…polite?

You are conditioned to be polite with human beings, and that conditioning also works for entities that behave sufficiently like them.

A dog bringing the journal is probably also one of these entities by the way.

When you pet the dog after he brings you your journal he probably feels the same thing as when you thank a human.

> One thing that’s quite interesting with the coming AI assistants is that you can treat them like shit and they won’t mind. :P

When skynet is born you will be first against the wall. ;-)

Seriously, though, I'm happy when I hear my kids say "Thanks, Alexa".