markbyrn-1
Joined May 2003
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The story is engaging with the expected Outer Limits twist but a rather predictable conclusion. Nevertheless, I found it very thought-provoking. The show originally aired in 1995 when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a nascent technology and a synthetic human-like robot was a future fantasy at best. In 2024, though, AI has evolved exponentially with technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT, and we can now converse with human-like AI devices that synthesize human emotion. Putting that AI into a human-shaped form-factor robot is also feasible, but it would likely be prohibitively expensive to make a fully synthetic human robot.
The implications, however, are far more profound than a malfunctioning jealous robot. Security, privacy, psychological impacts, and ethical considerations come to mind.
The implications, however, are far more profound than a malfunctioning jealous robot. Security, privacy, psychological impacts, and ethical considerations come to mind.