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LaminatorX
on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:30PM
from the Call-me-once-you've-quantified-'love' dept.
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.
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Soldiers who wish to be a hero
Are practically zero,
But those who wish to be civilians,
They run into the millions.
(Score: 1) by amblivious on Saturday March 01 2014, @07:25PM
Someone introduced me to a series called Black Mirror. Series 2, episode 1, "Be Right Back", covers an analogous situation where a computer simulates a woman's dead husband by using all his online communications. If you've not seen this series before I highly recommend it. Each episode is a independent, thought-provoking short story with insights into the impacts on society from the new technologies we're just starting to come to grips with. A must-see for geeks.