[FRIAM] chatbot friends and parasociality

[steve smith]

Marcus wrote:
> It would be a good use case for agentic AI with Gemini.  I tried it..no, gmail/gemini can't cooperate in this way yet.

In a few years (months?) I expect I will barely remember maintenance 
tasks like this.  Most of my software updates and backups and such are 
so transparent I hardly think about them.  My junk filters are already 
(nearly...by choice) transparent to me... can't remember if that is 10 
or 15 years ago that happened?

I grew up adjusting points and timing and cleaning sparkplugs, and 
rotating tires every few thousand miles until I woke up one day and 
realized I hadn't lifted the hood on my car or touched a tire since I'd 
checked it out at purchase...  and I'm a DIY kinda guy, ready to do 
anything not requiring a lift myself...  but the guy I let do my oil 
changes checks all the fluids, tops them of (rarely needed) and  even 
pro-actively replaces belts I would have let start slipping and rotate 
tires I might have let let get wear patterns before such.

So is my service guy a MY agent or in some sense my vehicles' agent?  if 
it were new and dealer serviced and warranteed it would be (or the 
dealer/s warranty organization's agent?)

I have been ideating on emancipating my '49 Ford Dump truck in the 
context of the Axle Art mobile gallery.   Creating a DAO tied to a trust 
with Daniel and Jerry (and/or their board) contracted to the DAO to 
provide curation and location/event coordination... some kind of 
mechanic contracted for general maintenance (or subbed through Axle Art 
Collective)... Would some kind of LLM-driven smart contract be involved 
in promotion/event planning, etc?

This is not a practical thing, it would surely take more effort to setup 
and "herd" than to just do the details more conventionally but it is an 
exploration of the concept and perhaps making it into as much a 
performance art piece as anything...

... interesting times ...




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