Could You Fall in Love with Your Computer?

Sure if they can make something like in the anime chobits.

A "chobit," a technologically advanced persocom with a sense of machine intelligence, with the ability to feel emotions and act on her own will, unlike other persocoms
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031224/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_21

Tyler Labine did this movie, Control Alt Delete, where he cut holes in PCs and humped away.
Really, maybe one out of a million males would be interested in a non physical relationship, we're hardwired for sex. When you're single, its all you think about getting, and then when you're married, its the third most thing you think about behind getting away from the kids for a few days and how you wish she'd stop bitching over little things like leaving the toilet seat up or cap off the toothpaste.
 
A "chobit," a technologically advanced sextoy with the appearance of a helpless and obedient twelve year old girl with mental problems, popular among Japanese pedophiles
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There, I fixed your post. :p
 
The amount of neckbeard in here is staggering. Does the AI have a real vagina ? What about titties that bounce up and down when I am railing that shit? No? Then no.
 
Really, it's sort of inevitable isn't it? That's assuming computer development continues apace.
 
Hardware progression is not really the issue here, it is if software will ever be able to "feel" or choose based on desire. Even IBM's Watson just runs through a series of simple logic test until it finds the most probable answer to the question asked. Even the best AI we have now cannot be "happy" unless the programer gives the AI a set up parameters to be happy, whereas humans can search for what makes us happy. Software can expand it's knowledge, but it cannot expand what it is. Now if software can start writing it's own code to expand it's capabilities and not just it's data set, then I could buy into a sentient computer.
 
I love my computer, I routinely rip her guts out and replace them with better guts. Some times I like to rip her chassis off and smash it up so she can have a more attractive chassis.

If we were a couple she'd be married to a mad scientist.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Men aren't emotional creatures. It isn't in our nature and it is how we evolved.
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Speak for yourself Dexter, then check out the DSM .

Most other men I know, have emotions very similar to women, we just hide them more. Burying them under Car talk, sports talk, Tech talk, drinking binges and fist fights.

But I don't think a mere digital voice on a box would be enough to trigger that kind of emotion in most people (Male nor Female).
 
yelsewshane said:
Lol yup there are a lot of freaks out there getting married in online mmorpgs. I think it's the most retarded thing I ever seen :) Regardless reminds me of the old Ultima Online days when you could kill anyone anywhere. We found out about a wedding and poisoned all the food/drink and those that did not die we slaughtered. Dam I miss those days so badly :-( to bad games now days just cater to the crybabies and microwave generation.
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That is a little different. They aren't falling in love with the game or the computer, they are falling in love with the person they are interacting with on the other end. People meet online on dating sites and end up getting married. Now I do think the getting married online part is a tad odd. But I don't think the idea behind falling for somebody that you talk to and game with on a regular basis by itself to be that wrong.

Snowdog said:
Speak for yourself Dexter, then check out the DSM .

Most other men I know, have emotions very similar to women, we just hide them more. Burying them under Car talk, sports talk, Tech talk, drinking binges and fist fights.

But I don't think a mere digital voice on a box would be enough to trigger that kind of emotion in most people (Male nor Female).
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I have to agree with you here. I have know guys that are able to express emotion. It isn't as much that we aren't programmed that way, it is just the way people are forced into the peg holes. Guys are to be touch and never talk about their feelings and woman are the be emotional and the damsel.
 
Ok just saw the movie, "Her", and it was very VERY odd the level of acceptance there was with these AIs, and it's something that occurred very quickly apparently.
 
What surprises me is that the movie would push the idea of falling in love with a "person" who exists only to serve you. Who will evolve to adjust to your every want and desire.

If you aren't willing to interact with the other person as an equal, you're not in much of a relationship. The computer is essentially a slave. A happy slave, designed to be happy about serving (so I wouldn't see it as an ethical issue), but it can't have any goals or interests of "her" own. I'm not saying a person wouldn't develop an attachment for it, But only the most insecure, lonely person would call it love.

Also, what if instead of Scarlett's voice, the computer had Barry White's?
 
Exavior said:
I could see some really lonely person that was talking to an AI that could interact with him on about the same level as a person online starting to develop feeling if he was to forget it truly as a computer.
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Been done, was the plot for an episode of The Big Bang Theory :p
 
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