Comment by onlyonethingcanbeknown on [link] The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men · 2020-12-15T19:59:35.764Z · LW · GW

Not sure if this is important. ELIZA, one of the first ever (rule-based) conversational agent, got people psychologically hooked on her:

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/26.pdf

I think this says more about the quiet desperation of human beings, than the progress we are making in AI.