extending this bit further - we might as well reply with chatGPT. then it's chatGPT all the way down, who needs human interaction when we tick the boxes of "I called them" and "I replied"?.. :)
"AI" for the following cases would be beneficial:
Social -> Antisocial
Social <- Antisocial
"AI" for the following cases would be net neutral:
Antisocial -> Antisocial
Antisocial <- Antisocial
And finally "AI" would be inapplicable (since neither party would use it) in the following cases:
Social -> Social
Social <- Social
In this drastically simplified model, there aren't any cases where the existence of a sufficiently competent AI would be detrimental to any party involved, while still providing value for those who choose to use it.
To try to be a little constructive, is a relationship really worth anything if a half-bit is all one can spare for it?
I'm more unsettled by the automation part. At least the half-bit received came from someone who consciously thought about you enough to send it. Once you emulate that part, all you have is a MITM initiating conversations between strangers.
I’ve never heard that idea before and I love it.
So half a bit would be like hearing "Umm..." in response to that same question?
"Is this tree deciduous?" "Yes" - one bit
"Is this tree evergreen?" "Probably" - one bit (they don't know), another bit (their guess)
But I'm way off any formal understanding of this, and it can be rigorously defined.
Meta comment: "half a bit" was clearly a joke, and so was my response; now I'm taking your reply at face value and debating it seriously, while admitting that I haven't got anything close to firm enough ground under me to actually debate it :)
"Umm..." definitely carries some kind of information, but it doesn't actually help answer the question.
Based on the information theoretic definition of entropy we'd need to go from 50:50 to 89% certainty to get half a bit of information, and I'd probably qualify 89% certainty as "probably"
To be pedantic, this is not a single bit of data. This is zero bits attached to an event. The event is not discrete however, so I'm not sure what form of information theory would be appropriate to describe it.
Like if you'd walk on a noisy street, see someone you know, and greet them half-heartedly and wouldn't really mind if they didn't hear you.
Oh man, the thrill of not knowing if this message will actually be sent when I hit the "reply" button!
Maybe combined with ChatGPT we could even make those automatic getting-back-in-touch messages indistinguishable from the manual ones.