Humans have created robots that are capable of giving
love. There are so many wonderful possibilities for this accomplishment.
Families who cannot have children can have a robot child, friends for those who
are lonely, etc. But no! Even though these robots can give love, the trouble
stems from the human side. The humans are the problem; they are not willing to
trust and give the love these robots need to survive.
Unlike humans, these robots imprint on a person or
people. They are programmed to love. Humans have the free will to choose who
they love; robots have essentially been assigned who they are supposed to love.
The sad truth is that humans are idiots.
Humans have many external variables influencing their
love. Attractiveness, timing, culture, age, location, and so much more. They
are incapable of putting these aside to have “unconditional” love as the robots
do. I purposefully use unconditional in quotations. Since the humans are the
ones who made these robots, I feel as if their love is flawed because humans
don’t really know what unconditional love is. The robots’ love might be the
most unconditional that can be achieved. Confusing? Think about it.
Humans made these robots, but their human love is flawed.
Humans create the robots. Therefore, how can humans expect to have robots with
perfect unconditional love? When David makes mistakes, the humans FREAK out.
They expect perfection. The people creating these robots are flawed themselves.
There is no way to create the perfect, loving robot.
The robots need love; it is their purpose for existing.
When the humans deny them the love they need, that’s when things go bad. What
the humans needed to realize is perfection is impossible when they themselves
who are creating are not perfect. If they could have realized this, David’s
small errors could have been regarded as flaws to his programming by humans.
Instead the robots long for something that can never be truly attained. It’s
like the old carrot on the stick analogy.
Side note, I also can't help but be reminded of the BroBot episode from Jimmy Neutron.
Interesting thoughts! An imperfect being attempting to craft an artificial and yet perfect version of itself seems to be an unbalanced equation on paper. As illogical as it may appear to be, it is what many of us do regularly. We often either lack self-awareness in our idealizations, or create these idealizations as something to strive for. Artificial Intelligence translates this commonality from the hypothetical, bringing to life a caricature of what we expect from a human child. Just as Pinocchio idealizes being a real boy, it seems we may idealize being as human as the human robots.
ReplyDeleteUnconditional love means that we love someone no matter what, most like how you love a family member. You love your mother because you almost have to, you love the love of your life by choice. I believe you used the correct phrasing by choosing unconditional love but I disagree because since they are programmed how can you really prove that it is stemming from something more than a neurological connection. Love from humans to other humans has emotions and chemical connections which cannot be proven in robots.
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