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Your defence is that since a computer resides on logic then you can also programm "logic" emotions. There isn't such a thing.
aren't there? if a girl you like, loses a boyfriend (he dumps her) you will express the appropriate emotion (and logical emotion) of sympathy. but deep down you will be happy cause you ave a chance.
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What if you didn't clean up your HD and your box got pissed? That would be great wouldn't it?
well yes it would depend on how you programmed it.... but regardless.... if it was programmed that way WHO CARES? the question that we are addressing here is can it be done? not why should or shouldn't it..... i agree it would not be a good thing but it can be done.
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Who's to say when and where an approprate emotion should take place and why? Definately not a computer.
a panel and a bunch of programmers could decide. they may not come up with the best idea... but it would be a way of doing it. i am not saying that it would be an exact replication nor am i saying that it would always seem appropriate to everyone, but it would be doable.
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Would any one care to explane how computers are supposed to express their emotions?
we discussed this earlier. could be color schemes... smileys, something stupid. but it would be something.
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It would make it that much more easier for some one to gain access to your box.
"more easier"... he... just teasing.... but seriously... it would make security issues, but that is not the question. that is another defense for why it shouldn't be done, but not why it couldn't.
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People can write all the programs, software, and scripts in the world and make your computer have happy and sad faces but all it will remind me of is a politician......All scripted, no substance, empty, and soulless. Simply going through the MOTIONS does not mean you are showing any true emotions, or emotions period.
i have seen people just go through the motions. think of seeing someone losing a relative that they were not close to or maybe met once. they aact sad at the funeral and stuff... but they are just going through the motions. second, we never said that the emotions wouldn't be at least slightly hollow, but they would be expressions of an emotion... just as a smiley on im is an expression of happiness. you know that is a hollow expression of a true feeling, but it is one.
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The word ARTIFICAL INTELIGENCE refers to computers hence the word ARTIFICIAL, which means produced rather than natural, not genuine or natural, made in imitation of something natural, So how can something not natural show something that is purely natural.
that is the point! are you agreeing with the yes people. because that is what we are trying to prove, ai can artificially replicat natural proocesses.... and scientists believe it can happen.... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...09877745.html. a replication of a natural process. sure it is an unnatural replication... but they made a pump now that works like a human heart. more unnatural replication.
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You cannot program a computer with situations and responses to the situations, because there is no such thing a one set emotion for a particular situation i.e. if you put 50 people in a room and tell them the same story you will get 50 different emotions and expressions of those emotions.
but those 50 could be simplified. a computer would just have simplified emotions at the current stage of things. and from there who knows what the future will hold.
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I do not think a bunch of silicon and plastic can tell you it is having a bad day and It needs to be defragged and scan disk done. I just could not see putting in a dvd in my computer and watching a movie and having my computer start to laugh or cry.
so because you can't believe it, it is impossible... i kinda remember when people believed that the earth was the center of the universe and a certain astronomer said otherwise... they killed him cause they "couldn't believe it". who turned out to be right? being able to believe something has no bearing on its possible outcome.
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Do we really want our computers to be our equals, because that is what separates us from machines is the ability to show human emotion?
on more reiteration... THIS IS NOT THE ARGUEMENT. i don't think it should be done.... i am not argueing it should... i am saying that technically though, it is possible.
just a side note. on instant messanger there is an ai bot... known as smarterchild... smarterchild can express two emotions... happy and mad. it is happy when people compliment it. if you curse at it it gets mad till you apologize. i know that htis is a weak example because of the limitations of its responses and the fact that it doesn't analyze what you say... .just looks for keywords... but it is a start for what we are discussing.
