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Robots and love
Random Al Yousir:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 01 Sep 2011, 10:02 ---How would AnthroPC's deal with the loss of their human after 70-80 years of companionship?
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For the AnthroPC's "bodies" boiling down to data processing machines, there's always the way of partial data deletion.
The question is, if the AnthroPC could possibly desire this, since this will also eradicate the memory of the human he shared a lifetime with. Of course there are external data storage solutions, but it could easily be solved by storing the memories of the deceased in a certain section of memory which is only accessed in special moments.
The dead serious question would be, if any human would have the rights and the means to command such a deletion/outsourcing/encapsulation.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 01 Sep 2011, 13:41 ---But the AI in our friendly robots must have some kind of a moral code. Otherwise they would surely be used for criminal ends?
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They can be built without one, e.g. Vespabot. The commercial ones must have some kind of morality programming if only to reduce product liability exposure.
Orbert:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 01 Sep 2011, 10:02 ---How would AnthroPC's deal with the loss of their human after 70-80 years of companionship? Bradbury (I think) dealt with this in the Electric Grandmother story, but with AnPC's, the emotions seem to run deeper.
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Asimov also explored this idea in his story "The Bicentennial Man" (source for the movie "Bicentennial Man" starring Robin Williams). The title character, a robot who had been upgraded so many times that he achieved sentience and looked completely human, and was actually granted citizenship and the same rights as a human being, chooses to "die" rather than continue existing without the human companion with whom he had spent so many years. I'd forgotten about this story until now.
Akima:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 01 Sep 2011, 06:58 ---Computers only have the ability to perform mathematical operations
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From a similarly reductionist point of view, human beings only have the ability to perform chemical reactions. How can a collection of chemical reactions love? The existence of sociopathy suggests that, at least to some extent, the ability to love is a learned behaviour, or to put it another way, a matter of programming.
Vurogj:
--- Quote from: Orbert on 01 Sep 2011, 15:36 ---Asimov also explored this idea in his story "The Bicentennial Man" (source for the movie "Bicentennial Man" starring Robin Williams). The title character, a robot who had been upgraded so many times that he achieved sentience and looked completely human, and was actually granted citizenship and the same rights as a human being, chooses to "die" rather than continue existing without the human companion with whom he had spent so many years. I'd forgotten about this story until now.
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Is that the film plot or the book plot? As I recall it (from the book, Robin Wiliams eww), he was only granted human citizenship after he'd chosen to die, that decision being what swung the humans concerned with the decision.
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