{"id":72292,"date":"2017-09-01T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/artificial-intelligence-can-pretend-to-love-us-but-is-that-dangerous-for-children"},"modified":"2017-09-01T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T18:43:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-can-pretend-to-love-us-but-is-that-dangerous-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/artificial-intelligence-can-pretend-to-love-us-but-is-that-dangerous-for-children","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Can Pretend to Love Us, But is that Dangerous for Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BCzfD--bm8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Creators of artificial intelligence measure how well machines can imitate human qualities like empathy, listening, affirmation, and love. Don\u2019t reciprocate, says Sherry Turkle. Turkle\u2019s latest book is <strong>\u201cReclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cI have very strong feelings about a future in which robots become the kind of conversational agent that pretend to have emotional lives. Shortly after I finished we can make reclaiming conversation I was interviewed for an article in the New York Times about Hello Barbie. So Hello Barbie comes out of the box and says, now I\u2019m just paraphrasing, the jest hi I\u2019m Hello Barbie. I have a sister. You have a sister. I kind of hate my sister. I\u2019m jealous of your sister. Do you hate your sister? Let\u2019s talk about how we feel about our sisters. In other words it just kind of knows stuff about you and is ready to talk about the arc of a human life and sibling rivalry as though it had a life, a mother, the feelings of jealousy about a sister and was ready to relate to you on that basis. And it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s teaching pretend empathy. It\u2019s asking you to relate to an object that has pretend empathy.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artificialbrain.xyz\/artificial-intelligence-can-pretend-to-love-us-but-is-that-dangerous-for-children\/\">http:\/\/www.artificialbrain.xyz\/artificial-intelligence-can-p...-children\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creators of artificial intelligence measure how well machines can imitate human qualities like empathy, listening, affirmation, and love. Don\u2019t reciprocate, says Sherry Turkle. Turkle\u2019s latest book is \u201cReclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age\u201d \u201cI have very strong feelings about a future in which robots become the kind of conversational agent that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}