Friendless and Fine? Rethinking Loneliness

Friendless and Fine? Rethinking Loneliness

Does friendlessness always mean loneliness?

Loneliness? There’s an AI for that

Posts Zuckerberg might be onto something … and it’s not just world domination this time. A listener wrote to me recently, and I haven’t stopped thinking about his story. This man has been married to his wife for 56 years. She now has dementia and no longer remembers him, their children or their lifetime of memories. So what did he do? He trained an AI chatbot and named it “Chat Sally” – his wife’s name. And now, he talks to it all day long. “It’…