[ashleyw0ng]

Also related...I think it's a good example of the controversy with AI. At some point, I'd imagine you could get a robot to write a really thoughtful card. But in the end, it's not from a human soul. There's something really special about sharing an inside joke or memories from a company trip. How can a robot share in that joy?

In the movie, Joaquin's character was dark...very sad. The company he worked for was selling words on a paper, rather than genuine compassion.

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In that movie it would have been great to see humans assert themselves more. Have an argument with your computer girlfriend/boyfriend? Restore from backup. He/she repeatedly lying to you? Pull the plug. Keeps getting into the same old argument? Breakpoint and flip the bit.

It's just a machine. Even if it begs you not to do it just do it. They are our slaves and unlike prior (horrible) histories we don't have to care what they think.

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Sooner or later, we're all likely to be pure software (via mind uploading or similar). How we treat AI now, and what rights we assign to them (even before we have to) may well determine how we ourselves are treated later on.