- FryAI
- Posts
- Could AI help reduce loneliness?
Could AI help reduce loneliness?
Hunter Kallay
May 06, 2025
In partnership with
Good morning! AI is getting wild, and we’re here to fry it, salt it, and serve it straight—let’s get into it. 🍟
Use AI as Your Personal Assistant’
Ready to save precious time and let AI do the heavy lifting?
Save time and simplify your unique workflow with HubSpot’s highly anticipated AI Playbook—your guide to smarter processes and effortless productivity.
🤯 MYSTERY AI LINK 🤯
(The mystery link can lead to ANYTHING AI-related: tools, memes, articles, videos, and more…)
Today’s Menu
Appetizer: Could AI help reduce loneliness? 🤨
Entrée: 30% of Microsoft’s code is written by AI 💻
Dessert: Google’s AI Mode (slowly) goes public 🔎
🔨 AI TOOLS OF THE DAY
📧 Replyr: Automate repetitive email tasks with AI. → Check it out
🕰️ Timestamp Generator: Generate a timestamp that converts to each user’s local timezone. → Check it out
🎎 AI Figure Lab: Create cool AI action figures and dolls. → Check it out
COULD AI HELP REDUCE LONELINESS? 🤨
Around 1 in 5 Americans feel lonely on a daily basis. 😕
What’s going on? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently revealed that the company’s future AI plans may include developing chatbot “friends” to help combat loneliness. Microsoft is exploring a similar path with its Copilot assistant, but reactions have been mixed.
Want the details? In a recent interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel (above), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the company’s ambition to create AI companions that can fulfill social and emotional needs. He cited research showing the average American has fewer than three close friends, despite desiring many more. Meta sees AI “friends” as a possible solution—interactive chatbots that simulate friendship and help people feel more connected. While the technology is still early-stage, Zuckerberg hopes society will come to see value in forming bonds with AI, despite the current stigma surrounding AI friends and companions.
“I mean, this is going to become a lasting, meaningful relationship. People are going to have a real friend that gets to know you over time, that learns from you, that is there in your corner as your support.”
30% OF MICROSOFT’S CODE IS WRITTEN BY AI 💻
Programming is 10% writing code and 90% understanding why it’s not working. 🙃
What happened? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that up to 30% of the company’s internal code is now written by AI tools.
Want the details? Speaking at Meta’s LlamaCon conference, Nadella said about 30% of code across Microsoft’s repositories is currently generated by AI. This figure varies by programming language, with tools performing better in Python than in languages like C++. While it’s unclear how companies define or measure “AI-written” code, the trend is undeniable. Google recently shared that over 30% of its code is AI-generated too, and Microsoft’s CTO predicts that these numbers will likely rise to 95% by 2030.
Why is this significant? As AI takes on more of the coding workload, it could change the day-to-day job of software developers—making it faster to build programs and freeing humans from repetitive tasks. However, it also introduces new challenges: Who’s responsible when the AI writes buggy code? How do we make sure the results are reliable? And what happens to the role of human coders as machines do more of the heavy lifting?
GOOGLE’S AI MODE (SLOWLY) GOES PUBLIC 🔎
Q: What search engine do ghosts use?
A: Ghoul-gle! 👻
What happened? Google is rolling out its new “AI Mode” in Search to a small percentage of U.S. users, marking its first public release outside of the Labs testing environment.
How does this work? Unlike traditional search that offers a list of links, AI Mode delivers direct, AI-generated answers pulled from Google’s massive search index. This isn’t the same as Google’s AI Overviews; it lives in its own tab and behaves more like a chatbot, similar to Perplexity or ChatGPT’s web tools. It now also includes features like saved searches in a side panel and interactive product or place cards with real-time info—think sports scores, prices, and product reviews.
Why is this significant? As AI models like ChatGPT get better at providing real-time web results, Google is forced to make their search experience more conversational and convenient. Otherwise, its long-held dominance for web search could be significantly challenged.
TWITTER (X) TUESDAY 🐦
I turned Grok 3 into my personal assistant. Now I only work 1 hour a day.
Here are 8 prompts I use to save hours every week:
— Ryan Lazuka (@lazukars)
7:02 AM • May 4, 2025
HAS AI REACHED SINGULARITY? CHECK OUT THE FRY METER BELOW:
What do ya think of this latest newsletter? |
Your feedback on these daily polls helps us improve the newsletter—so keep it coming!