Would you fall in love with a gynoid?

Mirage · Post by **Mirage** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:58 am

Knowing yourself, if the gynoid was a reality and it would have a realistic A.I.,

Do you think you could fall in love with a gynoid?

Just wondering..

Mirage

ehy · Post by **ehy** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:41 am

I think "realistic A.I." is an undefinable term and that the answers to your poll will tell more about what people think "realistic A.I." means than about their capacity for loving something. (Which isn't an uninteresting question itself, but I don't think it's what you intended to ask.)

If it means, "just like a human," then, well, yeah, of course. If it's just like a human, then it's just like a human; I can fall in love with humans.

If it means, "can solve some useful set of problems via pretty good algorithms and heuristics," well, lots of machines have that property without being (in my opinion) fall-in-love-with-able.

Mooninite 1 · Post by **Mooninite 1** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:53 pm

I say "Maybe", but this seems like something I couldn't honestly answer unless I was really confronted by a gynoid with a "realistic A.I.".
This also goes with wondering where to draw the line between fulfilling a fantasy and actually falling in love. Not to mention, would said gynoid actually be "in love" with me?

xodar · Post by **xodar** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:08 pm

I say "never" but that is conditional, after all. Still, I would always know it wasn't real in that it wasn't a natural biological entity. I doubt I would even have the same sense of caring I have toward dogs, which are natural persons even if they aren't primate level smart. Maybe a difference is that I know the living entity can never be resurrected as it is once it's dead but a robot probably can.

code_author · Post by **code_author** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:03 pm

People fall in love with thier cars, thier computers, thier pets. Humans are so willing to love things, I'd have to say something that looks like a human an d acts like a human wouldn't be to hard to fall in love with.

Code

Brytestar · Post by **Brytestar** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:02 pm

Code is right on that one. However it won't be for another century the a true love return would be possible. (short of reprogramming.) Now lets see what the world's brains come up with on that one.

xodar · Post by **xodar** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:48 pm

code_author wrote:People fall in love with thier cars, thier computers, thier pets. Humans are so willing to love things, I'd have to say something that looks like a human an d acts like a human wouldn't be to hard to fall in love with.

Code

I've known people to do that. I've preferred some machines to others, become more adept at using them than I have others, but I never developed any strong emotional connection to anything that wasn't alive and that was limited to creatures that at least seemed to have similar feelings to mine -- "higher" mammals and some birds.

A bot that was as sophisticated as those in some movies, one that couldn't be easily distinguished from a natural human, might have a different effect as long as I didn't know it was a machine.

But the truth is that my feeliings for other humans aren't that deep or strong any more, so I don't know. It might be baffled because I only show warmth and at least conscious emotion up to a point. It baffles a lot of people. (Not so with many animals.)
No such machine will be built while I'm alive, though the prototypes may. That's a development for late in the century.

M4R1A · Post by **M4R1A** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:29 am

A sentient android lady? How could I say no?

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:06 pm

Hmmm...

*wonders for a sec on why he is on this site*

Oh that's right! I like gynoids!

*Chooses the obvious poll answer*

Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:52 am

Call me like Xodar,
My emotional feelings have been so battered in my life that I've just switched off to such matters so its hard for me to comment that way. And to be honest should I ever be fortunate enough to undergo 'fembotisation' then I dont really want to be supplied too much on the emotion front (if at all!), just function logically to my programming.
If however a gynoid being showed me enough TLC to make me feel wanted again, then yes I could probably 'fall in love' with it, not saying it would be the first in my life to truly care for me, but it wouldnt be far off!

So on that basis, yes

Yosuke · Post by **Yosuke** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:42 am

Wow that's deep... ... ... and I thought my desperation for power over something was a problem...

*reads the final answer*

Yeah! *holds up beer mug*