Throughout The Matrix movie, Agent Smith displays numerous emotions (like fear, surprise, anger, pleasure). Agent Smith also shows elements of sadistic pleasure and extreme fear.
Do you believe/think/feel that our modern society will develop machines that are able to display and experience emotion like the Agent Smith example?
I believe that technology is an extremely powerful tool, and that eventually, many things will be possible. But I'm not sure if I could go so far as to say that any AI that we create will be able to truly feel emotion-- to feel emotion, one must be built in a complex manner and associate actions and people with certain feelings. Maybe I'm just ignorant of the workings of AI, robots, and technology in general, but how one could code something to really feel emotions (like honestly feel them, not act like they're feeling them, if that makes any sense) seems to be beyond our knowledge and capabilities.
ReplyDeleteEmotions themselves are complex, and are built into each of us differently. In the end, emotions make us weaker. And often, they are linked to our morals. As human beings, we are driven by our feelings (whether we would like to be or not) and find ourselves responding to challenges and situations with emotional responses. Machines, however, are programmed. They are told how to respond and what to do. Even if we were to be able to create AI that is very advanced, it is still a program, and it is still bound by a certain set of rules. I do not believe that it could be possible for a machine to be programmed to be so open and influenced.
(I'm sorry that I rambled quite a bit, I tend to do that.)
Much like Janey, I also don't think that technology will ever be able to recreate emotions like the ones we feel so deeply, like the emotion that is sparked at graduation or getting into the driver's seat for the first time without our parents sitting next to us prompting exactly where to go. How could we program a machine to feel something we don't even have words to describe? It's like trying to explain falling in love, there are hundreds of ideas, all with elaborate stories behind them of experiences. Even if we could somehow program a machine to experience something as generic as happiness, how would they know that some things spark happiness when you least expect it. Programs have limits, only being able to go to the line while emotions are limitless, having the power to take you in ways you never expected. In conclusion, I don't think our technology anytime soon will be able to create the same feelings in robots or computers like the ones we humans feel.
ReplyDeleteI think that no robot or program will ever be able to feel human emotion. However, I do believe that humans could make a robot or program that recognizes emotion and gives an appropriate response in order to make it seem like it does feel emotion. Though it never truly feels true human emotions..
ReplyDeleteI agree, the human emotions is something that no computer or robot can create or feel. Technology doesnt have feeling nor a soul for them to experience emotions. To have emotions I believe that means the trails you go through life and without those trials like happy, sad, angry, frustrated and etc then you wont be able to experience any emotion. There could be a chance in the future that humans can be controlled by technology and act like a robot but I highly doubt that technology or a robot could have emotional feelings like the human body has.
ReplyDeleteI believe that we will never create AI that can truly experience emotions. I think this because the definition of emotion is a NATURAL instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Even if AI have emotions "naturally" built into them, I do not believe that AI are natural in and of themselves and therefore cannot comprehend or experience emotion on the same level that we do. Because we CREATED them, they are not natural to our world, lives, or society. We also discussed in class that AI have the ability to learn which also goes against the humanistic idea of emotion because none of us learned to be sad or happy or angry, we simply are and I therefore do not think that we could effectively "teach", "train", or "program" AI to react to situations in the same way to the same extent that we do. Mark Twain says "Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary" and artificial intelligence cannot do anything without pre-existing knowledge, understanding, and programming. AI will never contain human emotions.
ReplyDeleteI do think we will be able to create AI's that can detect emotions, but I do not think that there will ever be a time where an AI can FEEL emotion. I say that because, on the inside, the only thing bringing it to life is electricity, and its made of metal and wires. Where humans, on the inside, have a heart and nerves that send signals to our brain, emitting emotions and feeling. In class, Jeb used a great example, when we stub our toe we can feel the pain course through our body. If an AI were to "stub" its mechanical toe it would not be able to feel it course through its body.
ReplyDeleteI think in order to decide whether or not AI will ever become sentient, it's important to clarify where emotion originates and how it develops. There are two opposing concepts of emotion: some view it as the product of impersonal chains of chemical interactions, while others automatically associate emotions with the soul, some sort of ethereal entity that both transcends flesh and bone and also acts as a foundation for one's identity and moral worth. I'm not going to claim to know which of these definitions is true, but it's reasonable to assume that if the soul and meaningful emotion exist, and if these things transcend the physical here-and-now, then it's also reasonable to assume that the soul comes from another source besides our own biology. If we aren't the origin of emotion, then we can't possibly create it ourselves in the form of artificial intelligence. We can certainly create programs that respond to situations in accordance with the emotions we feel, but ultimately this is artificial emotion, not genuine emotion.
ReplyDeleteId like to pose a question in response, and that is; How would we know whether we haven't already created AI that can feel emotion. We are not the AI that we create, thus, we cannot prove nor disprove that ANYTHING (for that matter) can truly feel emotions. That being said I believe that it wouldn't be that difficult to do so. We discussed, in class, that emotions are reactionary and THEN you act upon it and show the physiological signs of that emotion. Well what's to stop someone from programming AI to first understand what has been done to it, and then programmed to react to that "emotion provoking action" in different ways depending on how it reads and comprehends the world around it. If that's all it takes then you could possibly take the technology that Siri runs on and just tweak it to, not only give answers/responses, but to also be able to then react to what has been said/done. If this kind of technology is implemented someday, who's to say that we didn't just create something with the ability to comprehend and understand emotions, like i said, It would be near impossible to 100% prove OR disprove that it is actually feeling that same emotion that it's displaying.
ReplyDeleteTechnology has no emotion. A computer cannot cry or laugh or yell or be angry. Machines have memory storage but cannot express human emotions. I do not think that technology will ever be modern enough to give true emotions. No computer can experience events to cause emotions like humans can. A computer cannot go through loss or an exciting time and feel the lasting emotion that comes with the event. So no, technology will never be able to have emotions like humans. Agent Smith was just weird and crazy and his computer brain just gave him his own emotions.
ReplyDeleteEmotion, to me, is part of the soul. Most people might point to science and say they've figured out that emotions can be harnessed by chemicals in your brain, but I don't believe that's true. I believe true emotion cannot be replicated. There are obviously ways of showing emotion through programs, but my theory is that those emotions shown by agent Smith were the emotions of the one who programmed him in the first place. They were somehow projected into agent Smith's code, I'd like to imagine. I think if WE put emotion into things, then it can appear that they themselves have emotion. But in reality, it might just be that we've given them a part of our emotion. Perhaps it's just a part we weren't likely to share with anyone in reality without the fear of being judged or persecuted. So I suppose my answer is no, to the original question. Or, at least, if there will be programs that can show emotion, it won't be their own.
ReplyDeleteEmotion is solely for living things. In my mind, AI is not a living thing. To live you must have emotions, and AI cannot have emotions. Like I said in class, I feel our emotions is what makes us and keeps us real. These AI, although they are they have matter and they take up space, they are not real. They cannot feel as humans can, or sometimes even understand emotion. That's why no matter how advanced technology gets to be, whether we can make a baby in a lab or robots that look just like humans, the AI still to me won't be as real as a human is because of their emotions.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nathan, I believe our emotions are apart of our soul. Machines, however, will never have a soul. Emotions are an effect. I believe that programming machines to react a certain way would be the closest a machine would get to emotion. For example... when someone punches you, you get angry and maybe punch them back. We could program a machine to react the same way as one would after that punch, except the emotion would be "artificial". So no. Machines will never have a soul, therefore they will never have emotion.
ReplyDeleteI believe that modern society has a chance to lay the ground work for creating machines and programs that could essentially recreate emotions like a regular human does through out its life cycle. In the mean time society will start making slightly complex machines and programs that could emulate or react emotions. To be honest I do not think our modern times have a chance to make anything as remote as agent smith but the future can and will have the means to do such a thing.
ReplyDeleteIn our modern day and age machines do things like keep time for us in the form of digital clocks, build things such as factory robots, compute problems such as calculators, and the list goes on and on. Machines have come a long way to be able to do all the things we recognize as normal functions of a modern machine. No one questions how a program like Siri on our handy dandy iPhone. Both modern machines and modern programs do tasks that are simple yet very complex compared to machines and programs of previews decades. Yet modern ones do not have the capability to harness the act of having an emotion that equals our own. It is just not possible for Siri or an automobile robot to have emotion, to say they are angry or happy in your presence. They also do not know when to feel fear. An example would be when an automobile robot is in a collapsing factory it does not really have any change in its actions and just keeps building cars unlike the factory workers fearing for their life. And another point to this argument is that things in this world that can think on its own such as all organisms that have a brain of some kind have emotions and modern day technology do not have a brain or anything as complex as a brain. All we can do now is lay down the ground work for making the means to some day create a emotional machine. So to conclude this little ramble technologies such as machines and programs can not in our day and age reproduce real emotions.
The future sometimes can be so bright but yet we can still find a way to make it seem bleak. I have no idea if the future is bright or bleak but what I do know is that some day we will be able to make a machine that is equal to the emotional agent smith or as emotional as an average human. The easiest way to get this conclusion is if I compare machines to human beings. Homo Sapiens were not created in one day, but through trial and error over a very long time. Machines now in this day and age took a number of years to be at this present stage of development or its present stage of evolution. And it still has a long way to go just like it took a long time for Homo Sapiens to get to where we are now. Homo Sapiens have an outside layer to them called skin. Machines also have an outside layer called metal casing or plastic casing. Homo Sapiens have a definite structure that is filled with organs, tissues, bio-electronic pathways. In essence machines have major innards that could be seen as its organs and tissue (ram, power core, hard drives, outputs and inputs, and ext.). Machines also have mechanical-electronic pathways connecting every thing inside of it together similar to human bio-electronic pathways. Homo Sapiens have a thing called a brain and this brain is very, very complex and its so complex we have only begun to understand it. All machines such as a computer have a core processor that computes info kind of like a brain. And technology is advancing all the time and sooner or later we will make a core processor that is just like a brain. Machines like computers have memory centers and thinking centers. Technically emotions can be simply put to be our minds inner programming. Programs are evolving just like machines are and what Homo Sapiens did a long time ago and one day they will have unlocked the secret to the Emotion. Another way to look at it is God made us in his image and we Humans are making Machines in our image if we care to notice it or not.
I do not think so, we base our emotions off of previous experiences, and the machines have not had any. I'm not sure how anyone would upload experiences into a hard drive, how can a machine be given the ability to formulate it's own opinions and emotions when it has no prior experience with them. The oversimplification of the emotions of a machine would be easy to note. The machine would not have human emotions. Sometimes people are sad for no reason, they are just in a down mood, a machine would never be in "just a down mood" its sadness would have to be triggered. Human emotions are very unpredictable, and machines would not be able to match the complexity when there is no trigger for them to activate.
ReplyDeleteI think that for humans to be able to create emotion in a computer we have to be able to understand what emotion is and how it works first. We cannot create what we don't understand so we will not be able to create a machine that can feel emotion until we understand emotions ourselves. Yes I believe that eventually humans might create something that can feel emotion, but I believe that is a long way away.
ReplyDeleteI don't think with today's technology, we would be able to create any type of other technology that can harvest emotion, because we as a human race barely understand what causes and what these emotions are, we can tell you we are angry or sad, and ect. But we cannot explain how that works or how that affects us completely yet, making it near impossible for us to create a robot or something which can have its own Real emotions.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's possible for humans to develop machines that are capable of human emotion. They can program them to display emotional responses (crying when sad, smiling when happy, yelling when angry, etc), but I don't think it's possible for them to actually have the same emotional sensory nerves in the brain as humans actually have. There is no technology that compares to the human brain in this aspect. Scientists can invent things that are more intelligent, like computers, but they can't artificially create real emotions into non-human technology.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that we could make an AI that could accurately replicate emotions one day, but in order to truly feel emotions like humans the AI would have to be implemented into a human body, study how the body responds, and then use that information to have emotions like humans. Otherwise, it seems very unlikely that an AI will ever experience true emotion.
ReplyDeletei do believe that humans could create a robot that shows feelings as in what Adam said by programing them to smile when happy and cry when sad but i do not believe that they can actually have feeling like an average human would have.emotion is something greater then just something you can create, i think that it is not something you can re create in something besides a human. i think that emotion is something that makes humans different then most all living things. also, i agree with Ashley when she said that emotion is part of our soul and i feel as if emotion is what gives everyone a glimps of your soul. emotion is how i think one sees another ones soul.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think it'll ever be possible for technology to have feelings. Maybe they can be programmed to know different emotional responses; For example Siri, but they will never be able to actually feel those emotions. I believe that emotions only exists with life.
ReplyDeleteI believe that our society will never be able to create machines that can truly feel emotions like agent smith does. I feel that to have emotions like agent smith require a soul which is something that we will never be able to put in machines. Because of this I think that while a machine may be able to display emotions they will never be able to actually feel that emotion. I believe that no matter how advanced the machines we create they will always be missing that essential element that divides them from humans as in the end they are very calculating and missing the humanness. So in the end while we may create robots with the calculating ability and mental capacity of agent Smith they will never be able to feel the emotions he seems to feel in the movie.
ReplyDeleteAs of right now, I know that we are developing robotic fighting robots. I believe that our technology is ever changing and with this generation, anything is possible. Twenty five years ago if you had told my parents that they would be holding computers in the palm of their hands, they would have laughed in your face and probably told you to "screw off" (my dads favorite line as a delinquent) I think that there are already so many different forms of "robots" like the robot vacuum, alarm clock, sir, children's toys that interact with them... etc. that in the next fifteen to twenty years we will be laughing at the fact that we ever even wondered if it was possible. IM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG. I AM AN IDIOT.
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