FINAL BLOG

Final Exam
Anti Journal: Lost in the Flood
In this journal entry I spoke about Borgman’s views on reading and telling stories. These activities take away from information as reality, but there is no real need for this. Technology is becoming so advanced that one can experience everything one could possibly want from the comfort of their own living room. One no longer needs to read or tell stories because it has become outdated. In the technological age, everything can be experienced through computers or home entertainment systems.
Through the internet one can get any information they wish to receive just by typing a few words. One no longer has to have an experience to know something. You only know about it you don’t know it through actual experience. This is sufficient because one can gain much more knowledge about many more things. It becomes much more convenient not to have to go out and take the time to actually have these experiences. It almost seems silly to have to go to a place like Yellowstone park to experience it, when you can experience “Yellowstone the Movie” that plays on a giant screen. This movie can show you everything you could possibly want to see there, without having to spend the time and money to actually go there. This way you know you won’t miss anything because everything thinkable is being presented. If you go on your own you are liable to miss something.
The concert is something that is becoming ever more convenient. The latest technology in home theater systems can bring the sound right to your living room. One almost no longer needs to go to concerts because it seems every artist has a live DVD out. You can watch this live DVD and get a better view than most people who were actually at the concert did. The best part is one doesn’t have to spend an arm and a leg in order go see their favorite band. One can now sit in the comfort of their own home, enjoy a nice beverage that they didn’t have to pay seven dollars for, and enjoy the show.

Anti Journal: AI Response Can Robots Love?

In my previous journal I stated that the love David presents is simply infatuation, and that infatuation was as close as a robot could ever get to really loving. In this journal, I will review the ways in which David loved and other robots could love.
Can robots be programmed to love? The concept of love in the film AI is very real. Love can be programmed. It can be programmed because you program the robot to do anything for the human it is supposed to love. The robot willingly gives itself completely to the human. If this isn’t love, I don’t know what is. Sure this is programmed, but it is real because of the attachment to the human. David doesn’t know exactly why he loves Monica other than she is his mother. This is something that is just like any other human child. The only difference is David was programmed this way.
David is not simply infatuated with Monica. He loves her. Love is the reason he does all of the things that he does in the movie. He goes all over searching for the Blue Fairy. He puts himself in danger for the sake of love. He is willing to do, and does, things that are irrational because he is acting out of love. He is doing just as a human who is madly in love would do.
A robot would have to be destroyed if they were to be taken back to the place where they were built because they cannot love anyone else. In a way, this is a love more perfect than most human love. Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce because the couple no longer loves each other. The robot’s love could be considered superior because the robot never grows tired of the human.
The main argument I posed in the previous blog was that love can only be defined by the human who is in love. David, however, was programmed to love by various humans who have had experiences with love. So in the film, David does act of love. It is just that this love may not be his own, but it is a result of the way the humans who created him defined love.