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Originally posted by Sportbominable
Artificial Intelligence will NEVER be able to truly "love" someone or something or have "real" feelings. They probably have the technology to make a "robot" appear to show "feelings" but it would never be real.
The only reason we cry or feel emotions for robots in movies is because it's Hollywood. They know how to affect you in a movie by using cute faces and sappy music.
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
No.
Creating such a being who is sentient as we are and especially who can love - could not be an abomination in and of itself.
How we would treat these "Children of humanity" would be the crux as to whether or not it would be an abomination.
Whether or not we want it, we WILL create machines that become self-aware; processing power is just beginning to rival that of the human brain. Inside of 20 years, I believe consciousness will happen among our most advanced machines.
The moral implications are astounding. If we build slaves, who become self-aware and try to keep these machines as slaves and property, then we fail; we are no better than the slavers who thought africans were property and not humans.
My own theory is that even as machines advance toward humanity, we will advance toward machine - artificial implants and such.
As I said in a previous thread - I think us and those we've created will meet in the middle, and even love is not out of the question.
This begs the question: those that created us humans, watching as we in turn create our children - will one day rise when we meld with our creators?
Originally posted by GlobalAgenda
You are now actually telling me that codes will feel love? It's just a mask showing expressions due to commands.