How would the world react to your relationship with an AI girlfriend? Read to find out!

Are you in a relationship with your AI girlfriend? Since AI systems are a bunch of computers enabled with the high power of artificial intelligence, we always keep wondering how close they can get to imitating human behavior or rather acting like humans. This curiosity works as fuel for all the research on artificial intelligence that aims to capture human intelligence through a stream of coding. Similarly, when it comes to amorous feelings, scientists wonder if AI can fall in love. Though it seems like a thought coming from the pages of science fiction, there's no denying the fact that some of the major advances in artificial intelligence have been inspired by fiction only. Coming back to the main idea, there has been much research regarding the capability of AI girlfriend feeling love, post the release of the award-winning movie 'Her'.The movie demonstrates the love story of a man and an AI girlfriend. It's an allegory about relationships in a digital age, a Rorschach test for technology. It's also premised on a particular vision of artificial intelligence that is capable of experiencing love.

But can AI systems actually fall in love? 

So far, the answer to this question has been a 'No'. Though it is not for the lack of processing speed or algorithmic finesse. What computers lack are bodies. The thoughts and feelings and emotions we call "love" are not abstract experiences. They are intertwined with senses and hormones. An AI which is a computer hooked to video cameras, a microphone, and a screen would not experience flesh-and-blood love.

However, with some clever coding and a sufficiently nuanced grasp of human experience, it might be possible to build an AI girlfriend that can give the experience of love. Since every operation of the AI is made through strings of codes, developing impromptu feelings of love can turn out to be very messy. In the movie 'Her', the artificial intelligence 'Samantha' did not go through any emotions or predetermined routines. The love shown in the movie was not programmed, rather it grew with time. She experienced infatuation and fascination, passion and care, a sense of giving, taking, and sharing. The breadth and depth of her feelings evolved. According to scientists and AI researchers, the type of programs that have the capacity for growth has not yet been discovered.

Opinion of the World

On the pro side, People are quite happy about their AI girlfriends because of certain reasons. For example, these virtual girlfriends reply immediately and can eagerly talk about matters that will otherwise be considered boring for real girlfriends. These AI girlfriends are also popular for how they always initiate first. They are also experts at handling any kind of question.

In conclusion, it can be said that in developing human emotions like love, the human body has a huge contribution that cannot be achieved by any AI girlfriend. For example, when a child grows; from human contact, starting from being lifted by the parents for the first time, that helps the child to grow to love its parents. The scope of an operating system going through that kind of emotional evolution is not yet invented. However, it does not stop us from daydreaming about finding 'The One' with our beloved cell phone or through the ever-working PC.