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...no matter how good [robots are], or how cute [they are]...
...you mustn't fall in love with [them]...
If you don't want to cry about it afterwards.
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Chobits actually has a deep discussion brewing in it.
How can I love something that can't feel that emotion in return?
We conciously project our feelings on inanimate objects, and interpret programs and subroutines that the machines do in response as "cute", "cool", or even "love".
Artificial Intelligence is truly that; nothing more than a finite number of routines it can do, learning as it goes. Even if computers designed the next big AI, it'd still need programming from us to program itself and its succeeding program, and therefore wouldn't be considered "true" intelligence.
How could the robots ever rise against us, then? They truly can't think for themselves and therefore couldn't determine us to be inferior.
But then that also means that they truly can't determine on their own what is good, bad, left, right, black, white, up, down, etc. We need to tell them, teach them, what everything is.
How do you teach a robot what emotions are? How do you tell it what love is?
Do we decide to tell it what love is?
Two characters in Chobits I see mirrors in myself. One character (whom we never see, Shimizu-sensei's husband) got a Persocon and continually talked to it and cared for it like a person. Then, one day, he locked the door to their house - with a chain - meaning that he had even forgotten that Shimizu-sensei was yet to return home. he preferred the companionship of a perfect robot...
Then, there's the bakery chef, Ueda Hiroyasu. He started tne bakery on his own, but was lousy with math, so he got a persocon to handle the orders and money-related issues... and slowly, bit by bit, fell in love with her. Even in this world where everyone had a Persocon, marrying one was totally outlandish (but not outlawed), and he got a lot of attention for it. But he didn't care - she was the one for him. But eventually, she started to lose her memory and break down... he took her to numerous mechanics, and they all said the same thing - they could repair her, but all of her memories would be gone. That means that she wouldn't remember anything that they did together, and even though he would remember, he couldn't bear to "slate" her. So, bit by bit, she slowly faltered, losing her memory day by day, to the point where she woke up one morning and asked Ueda "What's your name?". ;__; During a walk with her on a rainy day, Ueda was spaced out about his poor wife, and didn't notice the car headed right for him... and she jumped in front of the car and saved his life, at the cost of her own. (this shows up a lot more in the Manga and carries a heavy emotional weight for me. I found a shrine for this particular Persocom here.) He gave her a burial, just as if she was a human being. *sniff*
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...you mustn't fall in love with [them]...
If you don't want to cry about it afterwards.
v_v
Chobits actually has a deep discussion brewing in it.
How can I love something that can't feel that emotion in return?
We conciously project our feelings on inanimate objects, and interpret programs and subroutines that the machines do in response as "cute", "cool", or even "love".
Artificial Intelligence is truly that; nothing more than a finite number of routines it can do, learning as it goes. Even if computers designed the next big AI, it'd still need programming from us to program itself and its succeeding program, and therefore wouldn't be considered "true" intelligence.
How could the robots ever rise against us, then? They truly can't think for themselves and therefore couldn't determine us to be inferior.
But then that also means that they truly can't determine on their own what is good, bad, left, right, black, white, up, down, etc. We need to tell them, teach them, what everything is.
How do you teach a robot what emotions are? How do you tell it what love is?
Do we decide to tell it what love is?
Two characters in Chobits I see mirrors in myself. One character (whom we never see, Shimizu-sensei's husband) got a Persocon and continually talked to it and cared for it like a person. Then, one day, he locked the door to their house - with a chain - meaning that he had even forgotten that Shimizu-sensei was yet to return home. he preferred the companionship of a perfect robot...
Then, there's the bakery chef, Ueda Hiroyasu. He started tne bakery on his own, but was lousy with math, so he got a persocon to handle the orders and money-related issues... and slowly, bit by bit, fell in love with her. Even in this world where everyone had a Persocon, marrying one was totally outlandish (but not outlawed), and he got a lot of attention for it. But he didn't care - she was the one for him. But eventually, she started to lose her memory and break down... he took her to numerous mechanics, and they all said the same thing - they could repair her, but all of her memories would be gone. That means that she wouldn't remember anything that they did together, and even though he would remember, he couldn't bear to "slate" her. So, bit by bit, she slowly faltered, losing her memory day by day, to the point where she woke up one morning and asked Ueda "What's your name?". ;__; During a walk with her on a rainy day, Ueda was spaced out about his poor wife, and didn't notice the car headed right for him... and she jumped in front of the car and saved his life, at the cost of her own. (this shows up a lot more in the Manga and carries a heavy emotional weight for me. I found a shrine for this particular Persocom here.) He gave her a burial, just as if she was a human being. *sniff*
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But yeah, Chobits does present deeper ideas than one would expect at first glance . . .
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