Movies about AI and Robots - why does everyone think one of those 2 developing emotions/feelings is so special?

[AFtrEFkt]

Originally Posted by oeccscclhjhn

From my experience, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Subject matter experts rarely (if ever?) enjoy films in their area of expertise. Take Robert Redford's survival tale All Is Lost (2013). Those who sail found many errors in the details. Historians or history buffs do not like biopics, from my experience. It's just the nature of the beast.

Similarly, Jeremy Renner got lots of heat from pro archers who said his form in Avengers is terrible. He obviously was not schooled in archery — or not for very long — before filming commenced.

[supergirlygirl]

Originally Posted by irrelevant

Let me start by saying that I am a programmer and have been one for a long time now. As a person in that field AI has always been close to my heart and seeing people who know nothing of it create such a wrong concept about it is just annoying.

In almost all movies about AI, androids, robots etc. the biggest achievement for the aforementioned is to develop feelings/emotions - that is totally wrong.

Emotions and feelings function in a lot simpler manner than intelligence and are thus far easier to replicate than the former. People often think emotions or feelings are this mysterious unpredictable thing but modern psychology and neuroscience have taught us they are based on pretty simple basic instincts. it can even be said that they are just more complex and develop instincts.

Creating a program/software that can behave like it's hurt, sad, happy etc. is completely possible. Sure it isn't easy but it isn't sci-fi either - it's possible and has been done even now. Creating a program/software that is capable of intelligent though... that's on an entirely different level.


So why all the fuss about emotions?...

LOL. I remember I have this 'talking computer' software in the late 90s. Much like this:

Cleverbot.com - a clever bot - speak to an AI with some Actual Intelligence?


I actually think it is sooooo cool. But of course most of the time its reply does not make sense. Now about creating programs for AI and emotions. I don't think there's a difference in complexity.

I studied programming.

[mkpunk]

See Chappie and Ex Machina ASAP.