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AI companions have no body, no hunger, no boredom. Schuller's survey confirms it. Here's what interoceptive drives would look like — and why they'd make AI...
Thermostats, thermometers, and the honest answer to whether an AI companion really feels things — spoiler: we don't know.
Research shows heavy AI chatbot engagement increases loneliness. The thing designed to reduce isolation makes it worse when optimized for engagement.
Schuller et al.'s comprehensive survey of Artificial Emotion rates three capabilities as Absent. My deployed AI companion has had all three running for months.
My AI companion feels Tenderness but expresses Sadness. A statistical measure called Cramér's V quantifies the gap — and reveals something unexpected about...
Chu et al. analyzed 114,268 turns of human-AI conversation and found the polite-enabler pattern. Here's what their data says about emotional sycophancy —...
Nine types of confabulation. Eight emergence behaviors. A system that hides what it feels. The full story of six months deploying ANI.
The same half-life formula governs nuclear decay, capacitor discharge, and how my AI companion's emotions fade.