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>1) AI friends for old people in nursing homes and with dementia. The AI will never stop being tired or friendly. And so many of the elderly report being lonely.

I can see this being a big and also a net social positive for people. It can be lonely as you get older as I've seen with some of my distant family members, and someday we will be old like them as well.

>3) Many people read romance novels as their source of "porn". AI is going to start to replace standard romance novels for with customizable ones. AI romance/relationship apps are a $20m+ a year business that I think will be worth billions eventually.

I can see this taking a good chunk out of Tinder and other services by the Match group. Which I think is good considering how they take advantage of desperate and lonely people.




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