"Can a Computer Fall in Love if It Doesn’t Have a Body?" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Feb 2014 9:48 p.m. PST |
"Much has been written about Spike Jonze's Her, the Oscar-nominated tale of love between man and operating system. It's an allegory about relationships in a digital age, a Rorschach test for technology. It's also premised on a particular vision of artificial intelligence as capable of experiencing love. Poetic license aside, is that really possible? Not anytime soon, though not for lack of processing speed or algorithmic finesse. What computers lack are bodies. The thoughts and feelings and emotions we call "love" are not abstract experiences; they're intertwined with senses and hormones. An AI — a computer hooked to video cameras, a microphone and a screen — would not experience flesh-and-blood love. "You can't make a computer without a body feel love," said David Havas, director of the Laboratory for Language and Emotion at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Though trying to replicate it "may produce wonderful gadgets, and potentially life-saving achievements, it can never achieve the same result."
" Full article here. link Amicalement Armand |
Happy Little Trees | 28 Feb 2014 10:17 p.m. PST |
So, stroking my mouse isn't doing a thing for my PC? |
platypus01au | 28 Feb 2014 11:01 p.m. PST |
It can if it is programmed to do so. By that I mean it is programmed to respond appropriately as if it was in love. Turing test and all that. There would be some behaviourists that would say that is what we humans do anyway! JohnG |
platypus01au | 28 Feb 2014 11:05 p.m. PST |
But I am tempted to say that this thread has only a tenuous link to wargaming at best. Can a computer hate it's enemy? Would you want an AI in a warrior-bot to have feelings? JohnG |
Tango01 | 28 Feb 2014 11:38 p.m. PST |
Can a computer help you in a wargame table? (smile). How if people began to participate in conventions with them? Amicalement Armand |
Brian Smaller | 01 Mar 2014 12:10 a.m. PST |
Well this is more a thread for Sci RPG boards. Have had games where this happened with AIs. I personally think that while a person could fall in love with a computer in the traditional sense of 'falling in love', that is will remain an impossibility for it to be reciprocated. |
War Panda | 01 Mar 2014 7:25 a.m. PST |
My computer has a touch sceen so yes
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Tango01 | 01 Mar 2014 10:27 a.m. PST |
LOL! (smile). Amicalement Armand |
zoneofcontrol | 01 Mar 2014 11:58 a.m. PST |
Another victim of "love at first byte." |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 01 Mar 2014 4:19 p.m. PST |
If androids can dream of electric sheep, then why not? |
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