Love Factually

Let’s call it love at first byte. The AI-obsessed tech generation isn’t just trying to achieve the singularity. They’re trying to use machine learning to more effectively hook up. The Minglelarity is the new Singularity. I’m hardly the person to cast aspersions on those who mix love and computers. I’ve had a decades-long affair with my MacBook Air; it’s resting on my lap and warming my cock-les as we speak. But after reading about Amanda Hess’s recent visit to the “Love Symposium, a freewheeling gathering of ‘earnest founders, experts, and intellectuals’ with an interest in ‘proliferating healthy connection at scale,’ where founders are determined to use AI to address their “certain way of thinking about human relationships: as problems that could be measured, optimized and solved,” I wonder if we all need to settle down and keep our clicks in our pants. I am as awed by anyone at the remarkable power of AI, but nothing can “solve” human relationships. NYT (Gift Article): Can You Optimize Love? “A group of tech executives, app developers and Silicon Valley philosophers is seeking to streamline the messy matters of the heart.” I doubt our aging energy grid is ready for this new version of human interactivity. My love consummation alone would consume enough data center energy to power a large city for a week. (I can’t even imagine the voltage dip if others were involved…)