AI Girlfriends are quickly getting more and more advanced, but what can they actually do in 2024? – The answer is a lot: Forming virtual bonds and relationships, remembering information, realistic voices, customisable appearance and character traits and of course lots of visuals in 2D and 3D and sometimes even NSFW sexual content. – And more features are being developed every day.
Current Features of the Best AI Companions
Currently, AI girlfriends offer a variety of features designed to simulate virtual companionship. However, not all made equal: Some are of higher quality and often more expensive, some are less expensive but offer less features. Some apps also offer sexual interactions and NSFW content, while others do keep things relatively chaste. You can expect these features from the best companion apps:
- Meaningful Connections: Quality apps aim to create meaningful virtual relationships with users, offering more depth in interactions. – They attempt to mimic human interaction as accurately as possible. They can also remember any information they receive and use it in future interactions.
- Customization: Some AI apps allow users to customize their AI features, tailoring the virtual companion to individual preferences both in appearance and personality. Some even let you import an appearance or face from a photo.
- Realistic Voice Conversations: There are apps in development that focus on providing realistic-sounding, low-latency voice interactions for a more lifelike experience. However, at this point most voices do not convey enough emotion. They can also recognize voice inputs.
- Personality Traits and Story Backgrounds: Some programs come with a variety of personality traits and backstories to make the experience more engaging. Role-playing is also becoming more and more popular and in being integrated more and more.
- Visual Representations: Many AI girlfriend apps provide visual avatars or generated images to accompany the AI personality, enhancing the immersive experience. The most advanced apps feature 3D models that are still simplistic, but getting better quickly. Photo-realism however is still in the future.
- NSFW Chat, Pictures and Scenes: Some AI girlfriends are designed from the ground up to provide an unfiltered and adult-oriented chatting experience, while others offer it as an optional feature. Sexually explicit chats, pictures and even 3D animated scenes are becoming more common at this time.
These features are designed to cater to different user needs, from those seeking a friend or casual and fun interactions to those looking for a more profound virtual companionship and even those that are looking for ‘more’ than just an emotional connection.
What Features can we expect in the near Future?
As we all know, technology is rapidly improving and new breakthroughs are being made in AI every month. In all likelihood the companion apps of the future will be far more advanced. Here are some features that are extremely likely to become a reality in the next 5 years:
- More Lifelike Appearance: Just like games started out using 2D sprites and moved slowly into 3D animation and have now become almost photo-realistic. With AI romance apps, we can expect this process to be much faster, as all the hardware and software to display high-fidelity graphics already exists.
- Reading of Emotions: A technology that I have personally seen being worked on is automated face recognition and emotion recognition. – The AI will be able to see your face and read your emotional state in real time.
- Better display of Emotions: We can expect the display of emotions both in voice and in companion faces to become more and more lifelike as technology progresses. Also lip-syncing will improve drastically.
- More realistic Interactions: We can expect the AI to get much better at emulating human interactions as more real human data is fed into the machine-learning process to the point where interactions on a semantic level may be indistinguishable.
- Interaction in a 3D World: As more and more AI girlfriend apps will switch to using game engines, we may be able to interact with our virtual friends in a 3D environment and even in VR, if the necessary investments are made. Technically, this is already possible, but it will take time for the infrastructure to support AI powered games to become realized.
- Less Pay Walls: As processing costs for AI models will inevitably decrease through the advance of technology, we may see less and less paywalls in our companion apps. – They will also start to leverage advertisements instead of microtransactions. However, to get the best plans in the best apps we will likely still have to pay.
- Video Chats and Video Generation: A technology that is very likely to be integrated is the use of AI generated video content to facilitate video chats, calls and sending and receiving videos.
What Features can we expect in the far Future?
What will happen after the point where virtual companions reach near photo-realism is highly speculative. It is impossible to make 100% accurate predictions. However here are some features that may be realistic to become a reality in the next 6-20 years:
- Augmented Reality Integration: The first thing we are likely to see is that AI apps are integrated into virtual reality environments, providing a fully immersive 3D experience where users can interact with their AI companions in a virtual space.
- Physical Interaction: Robotics may advance to the point where AI entities can have a physical presence, with androids or humanoid robots acting as the vessel for the AI girlfriend, allowing for real-world companionship.
- 3D Holographic Image Projection: As no technology of this kind exists at this point, we are venturing into the realm of science-fiction there: But is is possible that we will see the integration of companions with 3D holographic technology at some point in the future. It seems unlikely now, but it only takes a few new technologies to make it a realiy.
Conclusion
Clearly, the technology that powers AI girls and boys is still in its infancy: We have a long way to go, but most of the technology to realize all these advancements does already exist. – All we have to do is to simply wait for the technology to be applied in the first AI girlfriend apps. – I personally am confident that it will not take long until many men and women will go from finding the idea of an AI romance hilarious to seriously considering trying it.