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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: 4, Informative) by RobotMonster on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:31PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:31PM (#9119) Journal

    It'll seem real enough to the simulation. The universe we inhabit, for all we know, is running on a Raspberry PI in the real world.

    If you're interested in this philosophical debate, I can highly recommend reading Greg Egan's Permutation City [wikipedia.org].

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