AI and Dog Poop

Submitted by Smart_Aide_3795 t3_11co29s in Futurology

I know I am not the only one who hates picking up after my dog. I think it's gross. As AI advances, there will be a company that makes AI dogs that don't pee, poop, or bark, it speaks human. They are obedient and love unconditionally and you can create whatever breed you want.

This concept will sell millions of AI dogs. So what happens to the real dogs?

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fbruck_bh t1_ja41vub wrote

I don’t think everyone will think in this way. Dogs will live on.

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LarryGumball t1_ja42nfd wrote

"They are obedient and love unconditionally" that's like well normal dogs.

I think most people get dogs to have a LIVING being that loves them, ya know with the warm and fur and fun and weird quirks you hate but come to miss.

They already tried robot dogs for kids, it didn't really work, and at that point you can just play youtube videos of other peoples dogs... not like there's any of those out there would be a novel idea I'm sure.

Niche product and market, unlikely to effect dogs to any high degree.

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SkepticlosFailed t1_ja4a82d wrote

hmm, the only things I want to take from this post is that there may be emotional support ai bots accompanying people in the future and I have to treat that with love and respect lol

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OsoRetro t1_ja4ueva wrote

The idea of a living creature loving you because of a relationship you’ve built with them, is a MILLION times more valuable than a machine that mimics love because of its software and upgrades and the premium subscription you have auto debited every month. That sounds really weird actually. Like owning a toy as an adult

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KingWut117 t1_ja5ci8a wrote

God this sub fucking sucks why does reddit keep showing me

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futurewolf336 t1_ja6bwik wrote

Just a normal AI dog that takes pics of you pooping and puts them on the internet. Just a sweet, loving, security risk when hackers get into its data and use it to break into your house. Just a lovely sweet AI dog that someone starts talking to your kids through bc they already hack baby monitors. I'd slow my roll on the AI dog takeover. Rovers out here vacuuming the floor already having enough problems.

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kompootor t1_ja6flab wrote

This is a quite appropriate thought experiment to all the AI doomsday panic that's being posted. I feel like it could use some refinement though, and the reason is because it feels very much like it's invoking the literary trope of the doppelganger, but I don't think it's explicit enough at it to be fully effective.

Eliciting the doppelganger trope would I think for most people, even those who aren't that familiar with much literature or film directly, make people think about how old this concept truly is. My own visual for the sci-fi doppelganger is the mechanical duplicate in Metropolis, which nicely fits this thread as it was part of a layered allegory that begins with the day-to-day workers moving through a soulless system to provide luxury for others. The machine could replace the worker, production would improve, and the worker would no longer be a ritual sacrifice to capitalism (but implicitly, where would he go?); instead the machine replaces the one person proposing a solution to the working class-vs-elite problem with an agent of the whole system's destruction. (Hopefully that's an abstract enough meta-summary that nobody will try to remember any of that when they eventually go see it -- which they will, because it's amazing.)

The point is that we have centuries of people freaking out over -- and making amazing literature about -- essentially the same root fear. AI is the new golem, the invading Body Snatcher, your Link's Shadow! But the hero does not fear! The hero stands in the corner and mashes, mashes B!

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Southern_Orange3744 t1_ja6l3kq wrote

Bad premise .

Leave your dogs alone. Get an ai to clean the poop, feed the dog, trim its nails , and train it.

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nolitos t1_ja6zx89 wrote

> This concept will sell millions of AI dogs. So what happens to the real dogs?

People will finally stop breeding and exploiting them for money and egoistical desire to be "loved".

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Orc_ t1_ja78be7 wrote

So you want a complete human slave... The poor thing has no choice but to love you unconditionally because you predetermined so through genetic engineering I suppose. wow.

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Thin-Limit7697 t1_ja84v0c wrote

>there will be a company that makes AI dogs that don't pee, poop, or bark, it speaks human

Did you know that both Neopets and Digimon were already invented, like, decades ago?

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Longjumping-Tie-7573 t1_ja8bfk4 wrote

To think we've reached the age when kids don't remember the Aibo and how it was a complete and utter commercial failure.

Kids, y'all thinking about the Future doesn't accomplish jack shit if you don't know your Past.

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OsoRetro t1_ja9dzbj wrote

Replying to Temporary_Sir_3050 (#2,067,701)

I’m not on a quest to figure out animal brains. The relationship is for me. Science has proven it’s good for me. My dog will eat his shit if I don’t stop him. I realize how his brain works. If you’re suggesting dogs don’t love that’s BS but Thanks for the science.

Yay for robots and all that shit, but AI dogs is gonna be a hard sell for a lot of folks for a very long time.

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