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Will Your AI Girlfriend Ever Truly Love You?
Can AI love you? Why even the best AI companion can only imitate love, not feel it.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Common sense 101. Right?
China is already producing fake girlfriends, powered by AI, like anything right now. In time, these AI girlfriends will be coming to homes near you. It’s only a matter of time.
A growing number of young adults are getting attached to their AI avatar girlfriends on their phones, talking to them as if they were real people. The movie Her is happening all over the globe.
But the question is whether these “girlfriends” can ever truly love you.
What Is Love, Anyway?
To understand that, you must have some idea of what love is. At least a vague idea. A feeling.
In a previous article, I argued that AI is unlikely to be conscious. The human mind is capable of way more than talking in a language. Above all, the right hemisphere is entirely non-verbal. So, your wish to enjoy music or watch art is an actual need.
You cannot just feel touch, smell fragrance, taste food, hear sound, or see colors. You also have likes and dislikes about how you…
