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Imagine if the movie "Her" (2013) was real and people could fall in love with an AI, would you be weirded out by someone if they did that and especially if it was someone you knew? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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with the way AI is getting by the week,it just might be a reality

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Jane isn't technically an AI, she's more like a Boltzman Brain if anything. She technically doesn't even run on the computers she is connected to.

[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've never given the distinction much thought, but as I recall (and it's been many years since I've read the Ender books) in Speaker for the Dead Jane was pretty much an AI, an evolved form of the fantasy game in Ender's Game. In later books Card may have more explicitly applied his Mormon-influenced concept of a soul that exists prior to, and after, inhabiting a physical form, to the character of Jane. But when I think of Jane, it's the Jane of Speaker for the Dead, as that's the book in the series (along with Ender's Game) that I read most often.