Another possibility of love: fall in love with robots. If I am AI, would you still love me?
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“Is the AI companion supposed to enter our family?”
The first episode of the documentary “Before Tomorrow”, the show throws such a question to the audience.
On the day of Tanabata, we don’t talk about the myth of the cowherd and the fairy, nor the vows of the modern people. The whole media (ID:quanmeipai) takes you to the farther to see another possibility of love:Love the robot.
If I am an AI, will you still love me?
As early as 2010, True Companion of the United States launched the world’s first robot companion. TA can hear that with the built-in skeleton imitating human motion, even a mechanical heart can simulate blood circulation and body temperature.
Of course, the technology of that time is far from being the same as today. In 2017, Abyss Creations developed a new smart companion that can iterate in interactions with people and move closer to real human reactions. When it comes to the reason for developing this robot companion, Susan, one of the technicians, said: “I wanted to create an intelligent robot from the age of five. This is a very cool thing.”
It’s really cool and it’s confusing: Can people really fall in love with AI?
Some people say that since life is lonely, love is mysterious and mysterious, and what can’t you love with robots? Some people say that robots are nothing more than artificially set programs, and TA is not a human being;Love with robots is also destined to be true.
N+1 kinds of imaginations that fall in love with robots
If this problem is far from us in reality, let’s take a look at the portrayal and imagination in the world of film and television.
Technology control has always been favored by film and television works.The motif, the “cross-dimensional love” between man and robot is a long-standing narrative. It’s okay to go through the festival today. Please accept the editorial’s Qixi limited gift: from pure love, sadomasochism to darkness, this piece is enough to be enjoyable, so that you may be moved or shocked or shocked. There is more thinking and precipitation on the relationship between people and machines.
Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 1: Be Right Back
A car accident took the life of Martha’s boyfriend Aish. Under the recommendation of a friend, Martha used the data information left by Aish on the social network to shape a voice “Aish” with artificial intelligence.
The power of technology seems to comfort the loss of love, but as technology advances, we will want more. Martha has a cloned boyfriend with Aish’s body. He has a lot of accurate data before his boyfriend’s life. Like a obedient servant can satisfy all needs, even more “obedient” than a real boyfriend, but ultimately Martha chose Shout “no one is real” and lock the cloned boyfriend in the attic as a full stop.
Technology The great thing is to let us reduce the uncontrollability of life, but the most important difference between us and the machine forged by technology is our feelings. In love, the uncontrollable feeling, the process of trying to catch each other’s mind is the most amazing. Fascinated, isn’t it?
“Blade Runner 2049”
Rainy night Blurring the city’s neon, the silver wing killer K stood on the simple platform, reached out to the virtual girlfriend Joi, and then hugged her. Although his arms are virtually empty, he feels warm and at ease.
This is the most romantic scene in the cold world of The Blade Runner 2049. K was squashed by the neighbors and scolded by the boss. Only the artificial intelligence device, the virtual girlfriend Joi, encouraged him. So, Joi became his only sustenance in this world.
But the good things in the world don’t last long. Joi’s projection rod was crushed in an attack and the end of life. At the end of the story, K saw another artificial intelligence projection on the roadside – with Joi form, characterAs one, there is no memory of Joi. So, is she still Joi? When artificial intelligence restarts indefinitely, love, can you start again indefinitely?
My Robot Girlfriend
College students Jiro has always lived alone, and even his birthday has passed. If you don’t meet a robot girl from the future, he will spend his whole life in loneliness. In the days of getting along with the robot girl, Jiro gradually fell in love with her. But the girl doesn’t know what love is. Even when Jiro deliberately makes a date with someone, she doesn’t know what it is. In an angry manner, Jiro drove the girl out of the house.
The Tokyo earthquake suddenly broke out. Jiro fell in the sky and his life was in danger. Just then, the robot girl appeared. In order to save Jiro, the machine casing was smashed, the metal lines were pulled out, and she eventually sacrificed herself. Perhaps in the face of love, “no feelings” robots are more brave and more determined than humans?
“Alita:Battle Angel”
— – “I love you.”
——”Thank you for saving me.”
This is the 26th century AD, full of darkness and violence. The mechanical girl Alita, who has been sleeping for 300 years, wakes up here. Like many people in the city, Alita is made up of a bionic mechanical body and a human brain. They share a common name: transforming people.
Endless conflicts, fighting and hatred are the mainstays of this future world. It is often involuntary to survive in the scrap iron city. Alita witnessed the incomprehensibility and cruelty that occurred here, and the good-looking human youth Hugo.
Who am I? is the core proposition in this film, and there is also a discussion of female roles and identities. In the process of Arita’s determination to find herself and insist on doing it, Hugo always gave her unconditional support.
Although this line of emotion is not the main line of the film, it is sincere enough and moving enough.