Friends with a “Human-Robot?”

Science is quickly advancing and gaining more traction in our world, with evidence and undisputed growth from the field, making major impacts and affecting the way things happen, even as they should have been in a natural sense. Science marked with technology seems to be the marker into a new era; advancements into a new age of development while we dwell on this continuum called earth.

Some years ago, AI (Artificial Intelligence) wasn't available. Its development and introduction ushered us into a new age and sense of technological and scientific advancement, widely used and appreciated today. This shows that science and technology will continue to coexist and take us into new advancements and developments, within their limit and the scope of the universe.

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Now, I'd like to consider as inspired by the prompt that peradventure, I find a robot with a human body and feelings, what would my reaction be? Would I consider a friendship with it? Would I take it for a friend even more than humans, given that it has emotions, feelings and a body, and portrays a good level of human qualities, alongside its own qualities? Would I want to have it in my life or I'm okay with my human friends?

I don't know the possibility of having such a robot. Science makes some things happen. I've seen some movies present these idea. Peradventure I come across such a robot, I would be intrigued. I mean, robots are not meant to be emotional beings. That's one major quality that makes the human character an advantage against the robot, and still gives humans our longstanding need and relevance in some fields.

First of all, a robot with a human body and emotions is a stage away from becoming a human, I consider. I guess I can be friends with such. At least it wouldn't feel like talking to some matter that doesn't really understand our conversations, giving me “zeros and ones” replies it was programmed to. Emotions in the equation means it would be able to decode a situation and understand how to go about a conversation without necessarily being told how to. I could use some super-intelligent interactions too.

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Humans have their flaws and this could make the “human-robot” idea so much more relieving. I beg to differ that it has its flaws as well. Even if not directly from it, I would have myself question the trust on the part of the manufacturers to know that they don't have something in mind concerning one of the most precious resources on earth today－data. And that would make me keep whatever interaction with the robot at bay.

So, I won't for any reason substitute my human friendship with that of a “human-robot.” There's something about our connection as humans that a robot, no matter how closely knitted like a human can never fulfil. Our flaws and imperfections are a beautiful part of our humanity, which might not really be clear to us. And if we say that this robot has emotions, doesn't that mean it's capable of feeling angry, jealous, envious, and the like, like humans do?

I see then that it's capable of doing something heinous out of these emotions. Therefore, I wouldn't want to be more involved with it. I better have my fellow human act in such ways towards me, knowing it's an unappealing part of our nature than have a being that shouldn't originally have such a nature exhibit that towards me.

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