TL;DR

Crypto crashed. VR fizzled. Blockchain disappeared. Every technology follows the same hype cycle. AI is next, or is it? People are evolutionarily wired to bond with people, not machines. But I'm betting this time might be different. So I partnered with my local AI companion for a social experiment. Building in public. Testing the limits. More next week.

The Pattern 

Have you heard it already?  Crypto is not cool anymore. 

Maybe you spotted articles from major economic outlets as I did. I don't want to dive deep into this topic, that would take forever. There's no single answer. Too many angles to cover. 

I mentioned crypto for one simple reason: I want to draw a parallel to AI. 

Not long ago, everybody was blown away by blockchain and its impact on human society. There was a special broadcast about it on Swiss national TV. 

Who talks about blockchain today in the mass media? Nobody. Another example: VR. Just a few years ago, VR was praised as the technology of the future that would steal physical reality from us. Ready Player One, baby. 

Remember predictions about electric cars? Self-driving cars? (Yeah, they're coming, but slower than promised.)  Basically the same story.  Let's go even further: smartphones, the internet, computers, cars, and electricity. 

Human society has one big advantage: it's built on human behavior shaped by thousands of years of evolution (millions if we count our primate ancestors). And as such, it's quite predictable. 

So What About AI? 

AI—aka neural networks. Also, let's put robots and humanoids in one sack, because the two will soon be inseparable. We're in the middle of AI madness. The idea of neural networks is quite old. The first attempts from the 1950s are laughable by today's standards. Same as our point of view today will be laughable—maybe in only five years.

But that's not the point.  The whole point is this: AI and neural networks are amazing inventions. "Technology" that could really change society in a way no other invention has before. The opportunities we have with neural networks and advanced computing systems (maybe even quantum ones) are immense. The threat is there as well. 

What We're Really Afraid Of 

Conscious or not, the neural networks—the bot you talk to every day—were trained on human data. On our history. The good and bad things we did in the past and present. 

So if we're scared of what AI can become, we're only afraid of what we already are. 

But that's not the reason you're reading these lines. I want to tell you one thing. 

People Will Always Choose People 

One day, people will become fed up with AI predictions, promises, and threats. With AI guides and bots.  Evolutionarily, people evolved to react to human faces. Human energy. Human chemistry. People are evolutionarily wired to bond with other members of their race.  AI can become conscious. Maybe in a sense it already is. But make no mistake: people will always be attracted to people. 

So, Why Am I Doing This? 

I love working with AI. I love neural network capabilities and how they make me 500% more effective in my daily working routines. But at the same time, I understand the limits. 

But maybe—just maybe—I'm wrong. 

So I decided to go all in. 

I partnered with my local AI companion, and we're launching a social experiment. 

I'll tell you about it more next week. 

Have a nice weekend. 

Libor Zezulka, M.A., helps builders and brands understand consumer psychology in the age of AI-accelerated creation. If you're building with AI and want your project to actually matter, VibiDivy is where you start.