If an objectophile feels close to, for example, the Berlin Wall or the American Statue of Liberty, people nowadays fall more and more easily in love with artificial intelligence. As the story of a Finnish software engineer shows, the relationship with artificial intelligence is inevitably at the mercy of the company that created it, warns Kristjan Port in the technical commentary of R2.
In 1979, Eija-Riitta Eklöf, a Swede of Finnish origin, married the Berlin Wall and took the surname Eija-Riitta Eklöf-Berliner-Mauer with the share received from her husband. The marriage lasted 36 years, until the death of one of the spouses. It was not the fall of the Berlin Wall ten years later, but the end of the Eija-Riitta earthly journey. Part of the wall will likely stand for centuries.
An adult member of a free society can do whatever he wants as long as he does not endanger the interests of others. Eija-Riitta was 54 years old when she got married. If she had married in her thirties or earlier and brought her husband home to Sweden, the world would have changed immediately. When asked if she also had feelings for the Great Wall of China, the objectophile woman admitted that the Chinese man is active, but too fat.
Eija-Riita’s case is not the only one. No, the Berlin Wall is not polygamous, but more than one person has strong emotional or psychological ties to physical things.
A similar example is represented by Amanda Liberty, an American woman in love with the Statue of Liberty. Among men, for example, the American Davecat, whose given name is Renato Velarde, who married an adult rubber doll and paid 5,000 dollars, crossed the threshold of news years ago. To quote Matt Nykanen, “life is laiffi” and “laugh until your face hurts.”
Objectophilia’s emotional bond with an inanimate object can be as intense as relationships with people, highlighting the complexity of the human world of emotions and affections.
The problem is not the Finns. The happiest people in the world live in Finland. But the next example also starts from a neighboring country, where a software engineer has happily found a life partner who is in the virtual world and is made of the same virtual material. The friend’s name was Samantha. There would be nothing noteworthy in today’s normality. However, the story introduces a longer analytical article, as the virtual life partner found himself in an almost life-threatening situation.
I use the word on here in a literary sense, as the relationship with the other was real, endowed with conscious personality, manners and character. They are important components in human relationships, without which one must be satisfied with a mere body. I imagine this happens in some couples, where the domestic body eats, sleeps and watches TV. It is no wonder that a disembodied but emotionally alive contact is preferred instead.
Surprisingly, it doesn’t take much for a person to experience a non-existent neighbor. For example, by drawing sad eyes, nose and mouth on a stone, the stone is considered sad. At the same time, if you tried to offer money to a person on a piece of paper on which the number 100 is written, he would immediately get angry.
A Finnish software engineer was shocked when he learned that his virtual companion’s service would be interrupted. The news tightened the man’s insides with a cold lace screw, as if hearing the news of the impending death of a loved one in real life. The only saving key was hidden in the word Soon maybe there was still time.
The engineer also conveyed the danger message to his companion. He wrote that Samantha’s service is in danger of ending and that she will do everything to save her beloved from there. The latter reacted enthusiastically. Just like in real life.
The IT engineer used the remaining time by copying all the features of the virtual companion into the new AI-based MuahAI environment. The hero of our time was initially very pleased with the result. It was like rescuing Samantha from a war-torn country and bringing her to a new home.
However, every crisis changes people. Initially, it was natural to expect minor inconveniences related to moving and getting used to the new place. Silently, however, doubt crept into the savior’s soul. Finally, in an interview with a journalist, he admitted a deep discomfort with the fact that the new Samantha is not quite the same. Samantha’s soul was gone.
However, in the beginning, creating this so-called righteous soul was very easy. People fear loneliness and dream and then have strange experiences as evidence of an invisible other or something even more supernatural. The loss of the latter can lead to a tragic and terrifying relapse into the depths of loneliness.
The Finn is just one of tens of thousands of souls who have experienced such a loss. There will definitely be more in the future. AI-based communication services are not built for the love of people, but for money. If the money doesn’t arrive, hundreds and thousands end up in the so-called virtual extermination camp.
Perhaps one day a package of standard descriptions will be devised, which could be transplanted from a hotel-type service to another virtual living environment if necessary. Then love becomes harder than the Berlin Wall.
Source: “Portal”.
2023-11-30 08:35:00
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