Robots And Emotions: Simulated Love Is Never Love

[50 shades of black + 254]

When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move into our lives. For Christal White, a 42-year-old marketing and customer service director in Bedford, Texas, that moment came several months ago with the cute, friendly Jibo robot perched in her home office. After more than two years in her house, the foot-tall humanoid and its inviting, round screen “face” had started to grate on her.  Then they heard about the “death sentence” Jibo’s maker had levied on the product as its business collapsed. News arrived via Jibo itself, which said its servers would be shutting down, effectively lobotomizing it. “My heart broke,” she said. “It was like an annoying dog that you don’t really like because it’s your husband’s dog. But then you realize you actually loved it all along.” ... People took to social media this year to say teary goodbyes to the Mars Opportunity rover when NASA lost contact with the 15-year-old robot. A few years ago, scads of concerned commenters weighed in on a demonstration video from robotics company Boston Dynamics in which employees kicked a dog-like robot to prove its stability. 

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[pinto + 293]

Too late and we're only getting started AI robots era...

[damirUSBiH + 327]

Sometimes it is too hard to understand real love😁

[Rodent + 1,424]

5 minutes ago, 50 shades of black said:

When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move into our lives. For Christal White, a 42-year-old marketing and customer service director in Bedford, Texas, that moment came several months ago with the cute, friendly Jibo robot perched in her home office. After more than two years in her house, the foot-tall humanoid and its inviting, round screen “face” had started to grate on her.  Then they heard about the “death sentence” Jibo’s maker had levied on the product as its business collapsed. News arrived via Jibo itself, which said its servers would be shutting down, effectively lobotomizing it. “My heart broke,” she said. “It was like an annoying dog that you don’t really like because it’s your husband’s dog. But then you realize you actually loved it all along.” ... People took to social media this year to say teary goodbyes to the Mars Opportunity rover when NASA lost contact with the 15-year-old robot. A few years ago, scads of concerned commenters weighed in on a demonstration video from robotics company Boston Dynamics in which employees kicked a dog-like robot to prove its stability. 

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stupid and entirely illogical.

[Pavel + 384]

Where is the boundary between rational and madness?

[Rodent + 1,424]

2 minutes ago, Pavel said:

Where is the boundary between rational and madness?

Methinks they've seen Wall-E too many times.  Lay off the movies, folks! 

[ThunderBlade + 231]

"Iron love"? No sense. 'Love, Death and Robots' - absolute idiots ....

[rainman + 263]

Society is going to total anthropomorphizing. When you talk about a thing or animal as if it were human, you're anthropomorphizing it. The Easter Bunny is an anthropomorphized rabbit. Anthropomorphizing is never a safe thing to do. And yet, look how much money Disney has made doing it! Shows that we humans are very, very vulnerable to things that act the way we do.