Post by StyxD on Jan 22, 2015 19:23:23 GMT
Canuovea
I don't mean that love is some kind of chemical accident, therefore making it impossible for robots to feel it. I mean... love seems an outcome based on the evolution of humans. We're social animals, and this has resulted in attachment to others of our species. That is, natural selection selected for that kind of thing. It would be very difficult, it seems, to make artificial intelligence fit our evolutionary makeup identically without some similar process at work, but AI don't reproduce in the same way.
I don't mean that love is some kind of chemical accident, therefore making it impossible for robots to feel it. I mean... love seems an outcome based on the evolution of humans. We're social animals, and this has resulted in attachment to others of our species. That is, natural selection selected for that kind of thing. It would be very difficult, it seems, to make artificial intelligence fit our evolutionary makeup identically without some similar process at work, but AI don't reproduce in the same way.
But you can evolve algorithms, at least based on the same general idea as with living beings. It's surprisingly effective.
Of course, simulating something like natural evolution would require programming an insanely detailed environment and possible behaviours. So I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. Also, I don't know if there's any point in creating machines that would have a will to live, or an ability to love. It would be more problem then it's worth. And without intentionally trying to create it, it will never happen accidentally (despite what Terminator teaches us).
But if you could evolve computers to have human-like reactions... then it becomes fascinating.
Even if they behaved like humans, you would know they're still the same machines like before. I mean, it's not a problem even now to write a program that begs for its life when you try to shut it down. But no one would really believe the machine actually feels, if the plea could be traced to like three lines of message-displaying code.
The machine that would learn to prolong its own existence would still be just trying to achieve the one goal it was programmed to.
But we humans are different, right? Even if you could get a program to perfectly mimic human behaviour, we still know we are different, right?
Philosophical zombies, a fascinating topic.
wordweaver3
He has his mother brought back from the dead so she could fulfill his idealized, selfish concept of love. Not because he loves her, but because he needs her to love him. He essentially makes her a slave to his needs for that single day she has to exist. He robs her of her humanity and makes her, in a sense, his robot. It's sick, twisted and heartless.
He has his mother brought back from the dead so she could fulfill his idealized, selfish concept of love. Not because he loves her, but because he needs her to love him. He essentially makes her a slave to his needs for that single day she has to exist. He robs her of her humanity and makes her, in a sense, his robot. It's sick, twisted and heartless.