Anyone who knows me knows that I’m really an 87-year old woman and am considerably impressed every time I find out what more technology we have discovered. But this? Seriously? This is actually real folks. Apparently a robot who was programmed to love (awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww) has gone crazy and smothering!! (That’s what happens when you only program the robots with Lifetime original movies).
“Kenji was part of an experiment involving several robots loaded with custom software designed to let them react emotionally to external stimuli. After some limited environmental conditioning, Kenji first demonstrated love by bonding with a a stuffed doll in his enclosure, which he would embrace for hours at a time. He would then make simple, but insistent, inquiries about the doll if it were out of sight. Researchers attributed this behavior to his programmed qualities of devotion and empathy and called the experiment a success.
What they didn’t count on were the effects of several months of self-iteration within the complex machine-learning code which gave Kenji his initial tenderness. As of last week, Kenji’s love for the doll, and indeed anybody he sets his ‘eyes’ on, is so intense that Dr. Takahashi and his team now fear to show him to outsiders.
The trouble all started when a young female intern began to spend several hours each day with Kenji, testing his systems and loading new software routines. When it came time to leave one evening, however, Kenji refused to let her out of his lab enclosure and used his bulky mechanical body to block her exit and hug her repeatedly. The intern was only able to escape after she had frantically phoned two senior staff members to come and temporarily de-activate Kenji.
“This is only a minor setback. I have full faith that we will one day live side by side with, and eventually love and be loved by, robots,” he said.”
Thank God. Who else wants some robot love up in here AAAOOOO!!!! >>high fives<< Mmmmmm, I can just feel those cold metal arms wrapping around my delicate and fragile body. Way to go Science.
This was read during the wedding ceremony of my two best friends, Ryan and Steph. It made everyone silent and really affected a lot of people. I am starting a new Valentine’s Day tradition of listening to it every February 14th first thing in the morning and then again before I go to sleep.
This song is a very good reason for spontaneous interpretive dance. As I was going through shuffle on my ipod, a song from my collection of music from Chicago came on (my little dirty shame of love for their music.) Of course it was this circa-80s power love ballad… just… about how his woman cheated on him.
But of course, if she HAD been faithful, he would have missed on on real love, real love with YOU! Just please, for a second, go with me to this magical land where this song is playing. And on the stage come out dancers, jumping, leaping, hugging, hugging themselves to their knees, then LEAPING because she cheated and finding the new lady…
Of course in my mind, at the end of the song where they’re just power-ballading “IF SHE WOULDA BEEN FAITHFULLLLL!!!” I see the singer on stage right, corner closet to the audience, singing along while the dancers lifted and emoted to their hearts content. Of course, his arm would do the reaching up, grabbing a pesky piece of air that he held onto and pulled down, in attempt to rid it of blocking his face. Which now was scrunched up more than if he had eaten a mixture of lemon, lime, and grapefruit, then rubbed the whole thing in his eyes afterwards, in this painful state of singing.
Man. I have some crazy day dreams sometimes.
And honestly. Honestly. WHY do people find this romantic? “Its okay baby, I love you because the bitch cheated on me. And you and me. We’ve got REAL love.” My question, what sad soul used this to propose to his wife. Anyone? Anyone? Yeah you there – you proposed? Oh, and you had interpretive dancers there as well? Wonderful!
My favorite movie on the subject of matters of the heart. If you have not seen “Before Sunrise” I highly suggest it. It’s by far my favorite love story. It’s not epic, or overpowering, or unreal, or far-fetched. It’s simple and it’s beautiful.
For me, this right here is love:
….and this…..
…….this too…..
…basically anything Julie Delpy says in either movie (Before Sunrise or Before Sunset–heartaching) is spot on what I feel like. It’s a beautiful, smart, lovely account of the beautiful somethings that can be shared between two people.
