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Can a Computer Fall in Love ?

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Call-me-once-you've-quantified-'love' dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Can a Computer Fall in Love if It Doesn't Have a Body? 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 ?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by nobbis on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:49PM

    by nobbis (62) on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:49PM (#9082) Homepage Journal

    Betteridge's [wikipedia.org] law applies

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  • (Score: 1) by SlimmPickens on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:31AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:31AM (#9325)

    Betteridge's law is stupid. This question is essentially "will we create AGI" and the answer to that is anything but "No".