{"id":286484,"date":"2021-06-29T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence-and-the-question-of-robotic-love\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:16:04","slug":"ai-artificial-intelligence-and-the-question-of-robotic-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-artificial-intelligence-and-the-question-of-robotic-love\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Robotic Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#AI Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Robotic Love<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does it mean to be human? You\u2019re probably rolling your eyes at that ridiculously abstract and oversimplified question, which is asked <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">way<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> too often. And it\u2019s not really worth entertaining with a response, anyway, because how can you possibly get to the heart of something as vague as that? More interesting are the ways in which people <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach the answer to such a grandiose and all-encompassing question. Some try to answer it through psychology. Some use biology. Some look to history. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And <strong>Steven<\/strong> <strong>Spielberg<\/strong>, with his 2001 movie <em><strong>A.I. Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/em>, uses robots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plot entails a couple, Monica and Henry Swinton (<strong>Frances<\/strong> <strong>O\u2019Connor<\/strong> and <strong>Sam<\/strong> <strong>Robards<\/strong>), adopting David (<strong>Haley Joel Osment<\/strong>), a human-like robot with the capability to love. Monica eventually programs David to love her, but then their biological son, Martin (<strong>Jake Thomas<\/strong>), tricks them into thinking David is a killing machine. Monica can\u2019t bring herself to send David back to the lab, where he will be destroyed, so she abandons him in the woods to fend for himself. David then recalls Monica reading <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pinnochio <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to him, and he subsequently embarks on an arduous journey to become a real boy in the hope that she will love him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the core of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A.I.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are questions that are essentially more palatable versions of the one regarding what it means to be human. First, what is it exactly that stands between David and humanness? And if he spends the second half of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A.I. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attempting to attain humanness, what exactly is he hoping to find? In order to understand these questions of humanity, though, it is important to first understand what it means to be a robot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principle of \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d is to program computers to do things that typically require human intelligence. While regular programming tends to \u201cact\u201d based on a specific array of pre-established data, artificial intelligence, or AI, has the ability to learn and evolve over time, and to make its own assessments of a situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But AI isn\u2019t really \u201cintelligent\u201d \u2014 at least, not in the same way that humans are. Their \u201creactions\u201d to things aren\u2019t really reactions based on any kind of emotion or introspection, but rather on coding and information that is hard-wired into their systems. So if you are chatting with a customer service bot, for example, the response you get from it will not be an emotional one; it\u2019s a programmed attempt to resemble emotions but, in reality, does not look anything like them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such is the case with David. When Monica programs him to love her, what is first required of her is a sequence of words, like the coding sequence needed to create a command for any AI computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As robots become more and more advanced, people often wonder how close we are to creating machines that are essentially just\u2026 humans. The subject has burrowed its way into popular culture with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> such as <\/span><strong><i>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1968), <\/span><strong><i>Her<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2013), and <\/span><strong><i>Ex-Machina<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2014) exploring the nuances and the pleasures, perils, and possibilities of highly intelligent computers and robots mimicking us and taking part in our society. But as far as roboticists are concerned, robots will likely never be able to actually <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feel <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emotion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angelica Lim discusses the possibility of robots experiencing love in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/can_you_teach_a_robot_to_love\">a 2017 article for <\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greater Good Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNeuroscientist Antonio Damasio defines emotion as \u2018the expression of human flourishing or human distress, as they occur in the mind and the body.\u2019 I have proposed that we define <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flourishing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for a robot as a state of \u2018all systems go\u2019 or homeostasis, where the battery, motors, and other parts are in working order and the core temperature is normal.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Lim\u2019s standards, it is impossible for robots to achieve so-called emotional flourishing, and it most likely always will be. The closest resemblance possible is a symbiosis of machine parts \u2014 in other words, a mere impersonation. S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, David cannot truly feel love. What purpose, then, does an AI that can feign the emotion serve? By today\u2019s measure, he is the holy grail of robotics, a machine that is indistinguishable from a human. Perhaps this type of robot can tell us more about what is important to us than about the particular qualities of the makeup of a human.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relationship between a human and a computer is, by definition, one-sided. In the past, philosophers have posited that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relationships are inherently selfish because what draws us to others is the way they see us, not a selfless love for that person. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his 1943 book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Jean-Paul Sartre coined the relevant term of \u201cthe look,\u201d which essentially forces us to consider ourselves not as beings looking out into the world but rather as beings looked at by others. This bases the human experience purely on the existence of others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding Sartre\u2019s \u201clook\u201d might hold the key to understanding what it was that brought David into the world in the first place. Perhaps <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A.I. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is not just a movie about a humanoid artificial intelligence yearning to be a real boy but is also about a look that Monica yearns for. She is introduced looking sorrowfully as her real child lies in suspended animation. Martin is sick and is not expected to get better. He<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is Monica\u2019s only child, and so the potential loss of him is jarring. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, nothing can quite replace a child\u2019s totally dependent and unconditional love. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When David first comes to live with Monica and Henry, she feels ambivalent toward him, maybe even afraid and disconcerted by his uncanny presence. But there is one clear, definable moment at which Monica begins to accept and even have a sense of love for David, and that is when she programs him to \u201clove\u201d her, and he calls her \u201cMommy\u201d for the first time. Notably, Monica comes to love David, not because he has done something kind, or smart, or silly, but because of the way he feels about her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Monica experiences at that moment is the same force that drives our need for AI to resemble humans, even when they exist purely for purposes of education or labor. There is no imperative reason Amazon\u2019s Alexa or Apple\u2019s Siri should resemble nuanced, female voices that enjoy speaking with us. And yet, they do, because this \u201clook\u201d that we desire locks us into buying products with such human-like attributes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps more telling, though, is the fact that Monica\u2019s approval is what drives David through the second half of the film. He strives to find something that will turn him into a \u201creal boy,\u201d because loving her is not enough. He also needs that love to be returned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">does <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it mean to be human? It is very likely that <em>that <\/em>question will never be answered. But coding a robot to resemble love might very well teach us that our scientific conception of love isn\u2019t quite as straightforward and selfless as our societal conception of it.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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