well, personaly I think that to get a machine to feel emotions, you would have to replicate the human brain perfectly (which is basicly impossible).

and making a machine feel emotions would be the stupidest idea ever

the machine would be able to feel hatred, which would probably cause it to go on a rampage, and since it's a machine it would never stop unless you turned it off (and if you tried it would probably kill you) or by completely annihilate it.

Hmmmmmmmmmm......... this gives me a good idea for an animation!

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Just because you give a machine emotions doesn't mean it's automatically going to be an unstoppable killing, erm, machine. The fact of the matter is that the people making such a machine would probably have seen Terminator, and so would be careful about giving a machine too much power.

probably would use quite a few safeties too, and not program the "negative" emotions, such as anger, or hatred, or depression. Could you imagine a depressed robot? A suicidal robot? would have an easy time of it-just walk close to a magnet. Brain wipe, start over.

But if it was all just a lie, it would be a false, empty triumph, and would that personally feel very good?

It would be a good idea to quote who you're replying to, otherwise you don't seem to make any sense.

let's ask iGod:

Me:
is it possible for you to experience emotions?
God:
I suppose it is possible, yes.

There's your answer.

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let's ask iGod:

Me:
is it possible for you to experience emotions?
God:
I suppose it is possible, yes.

There's your answer.

That's not much of an answer, he's just guessing.

In my view, they could NEVER create a computer that is advanced anogh to be compatible with humans emotions, and feel enough of them to actually behave like us, as we have sooo many emotions in our brains, a computer could never be as advanced as us....

Why not? How are we limited in what we can produce by what we can do ourselves? I can't mutiply 356527.68 by 5496045 in my head in less than a second but a computer can. I can't lift a stack of bricks a hundred feet into the air on my own but a crane can. Just because it's not organic doesn't mean it can't do more than us.

Indeed. We're a product of small beneficial changes accumulated and selected by natural selection. We don't have any features that we haven't been able to improve upon through design. We make things better than us in almost every way every second of every day.

I believe that it is entirely possible for a computer to experience emotion. It's only a matter of decoding the different chemical reactions and communication between neurons in the brain. I know for a fact that there is alot of research going into making computers with synthetic neurons. I also once saw an electronic car that was controlled by rat brain matter grown on a mirco chip that was able to navigate through a maze. We currently have technologythat allows our brains to communicate with computers called Brain-Computer-Interface. This means that Scientists have decoded the patterns of neurons firing associated with acutal thoughts and even, you guessed it, EMOTION!!

Brain-Computer-Interface.

Affectiv™ Suite
The Affectiv suite monitors player emotional states in real-time. It provides an extra dimension in game interaction by allowing the game to respond to a player's emotions. Characters can transform in response to the player's feeling. Music, scene lighting and effects can be tailored to heighten the experience for the player in real-time. The Affectiv suite can be used to monitor player state of mind and allow developers to adjust difficulty to suit each situation.

all we have to do is replicate these patterns which we have already decoded for the most part, and you have emotion!

I think that the more processing power our autonomous, learning robotic companions of the future have, the more room for real-time organization of ideas and data. We could have a constant pattern-recognition program running in the background, processing every bit of data coming through and then also acting upon memories and ideas gleaned from those memories and form patterns out of those in real time to mold their reactions. They'd have modes of analyzing patterns according to the input they receive. Robots will be able to feel just as we do in the future. With nanobots spread throughout the body, they'd be able to assess themselves and their world in a tactile manner much better than we can ourselves. And the more our technology advances, the more processing power can be packed into every function our robot would need, such as video, audio, spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, memory recall, and formulating new methods of thinking on all of them. It will be a truly learning robot and the more it learns, the more it feels; the more it understands, the more human it becomes. I believe we are not very far away from ai and robotic emotions, no. I think it will be in my lifetime that the technology is not only available, but applied. I doubt it will be able to fool a human. But you never know....

Sorry for being over a month late to this thread. That's the cost of only posting every once in a blue moon.

Anyway, this reminds me very much of a thread I started just a couple of weeks before this one. showthread.php?t=108769

It is safe to say that we will see AI advance to a point of near indistinguishability from humans not only within our lifetimes, but possibly even within the next several years. Incredibly advanced learning AIs already exist, and it's pretty much a given that they will indeed be able to think and even feel like humans eventually. Such advanced programming doesn't exist YET, but it's already getting there fast.

Sorry again for such a large bump for such a meaningless post.

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Why not? How are we limited in what we can produce by what we can do ourselves? I can't mutiply 356527.68 by 5496045 in my head in less than a second but a computer can. I can't lift a stack of bricks a hundred feet into the air on my own but a crane can.

Machinery being able to carry out relatively simple mathematic equations faster than us or being able to lift objects far heavier than any human can lift aren't feats that you can compare to accurately replicating the brain's neural map. Our brain has tens of billions of neurons that are constantly sending electrochemical messages for everything we do.

In a few centuries we might be able to develop technology that might be able to mimic basic human emotions and be able to store a database that lets it learn how to react to situations based on previous ones, but as far as I'm concerned the human brain is millions of times more advanced than any machine humans will ever be able to create. Before we can even attempt to create a brain that can respond to emotions exactly like humans (which would essentially be extremely advanced, mass-scale nanotechnology), we'd have to first understand how our own brains work down to every fine detail, and we're not even close to doing that yet.

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Machinery being able to carry out relatively simple mathematic equations faster than us or being able to lift objects far heavier than any human can lift aren't feats that you can compare to accurately replicating the brain's neural map. Our brain has tens of billions of neurons that are constantly sending electrochemical messages for everything we do.

In a few centuries we might be able to develop technology that might be able to mimic basic human emotions and be able to store a database that lets it learn how to react to situations based on previous ones, but as far as I'm concerned the human brain is millions of times more advanced than any machine humans will ever be able to create. Before we can even attempt to create a brain that can respond to emotions exactly like humans (which would essentially be extremely advanced, mass-scale nanotechnology), we'd have to first understand how our own brains work down to every fine detail, and we're not even close to doing that yet.

"Will ever be able to create"? Why so certain?