People talk a lot about how transformative AI will be but rarely from the point of view it will have on society when interactions like this are 10x more realistic and ubiquitous.

I imagine an agent with this kind of conversational capability but better. And then I imagine that coupled with a video model that presents a proper talking head that is pretty much indistinguishable from a real one

Then what if these personalities were highly configurable to your tastes, had a very long memory and were so cheap and available you could build an entire customised social circle from them.

This is a bizarre nightmare for us but will become the norm for future generations. As rigid and inflexible as it is, my kids even had a hard time understanding Alexa is not real at first, and they have come accustomed to this style of conversational interface from a young age, I think about that but in 30 years for their kids.