Sounds interesting. Don't really care that much and I'm not going to judge it. I'll probably check it out just to see how far publically avaliable scripting has come now. If you look past the "girlfriend" thing this is really a pretty excellent step in the direction of sentient machines (the question of whether that is a good thing or not is for another discussion).
This is just ONE reason why I have never, do not, and NEVER WILL have a facebook page. NO one gives two craps about you or your cutsie wootsie wubby dubby. Gag me.
OT: This made me laugh so hard when I read it. I can't wait to see the trickle of stories of people suing the company due to ruined social lives from revelations that their girlfriend is a cloud of pixels...
Because being single is only one step away from being gay, or somesuch other drivel.
I understand that society says guys are supposed to have various attractive female playthings to boss about, but really...nah, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised at this.
Oh, right the article says that if people think you have one perfect girlfriend, other perfect girlfriends will offer yourself to you so you have a set, I guess. And then presumably murder you when they find out you've been lying.
I really don't get the whole "oh no what if people find out I'm not in a relationship" thing and the whole making a girl/guy jealous by interacting with a bot is just...twisted.
I see this becoming a Hollywood movie, dude become so self consumed with this fake girl, he perceives her as real. Then the hard reality hits him... but then at the end, the programmer of the girl turns out to be holding the conversations with him instead of letting the program take over, they live happily ever after...
OT: This made me laugh so hard when I read it. I can't wait to see the trickle of stories of people suing the company due to ruined social lives from revelations that their girlfriend is a cloud of pixels...
...this will reduce people to manics. You'll see. The thing that got to me was "create your perfect girlfriend. That takes it well beyond just "try and see!" territory, into full-blown creepy perverted nightmare. This is sex robot creepy.
I see this becoming a Hollywood movie, dude become so self consumed with this fake girl, he perceives her as real. Then the hard reality hits him... but then at the end, the programmer of the girl turns out to be holding the conversations with him instead of letting the program take over, they live happily ever after...
Dude...you totally shouldn't have posted that. You should have kept it to yourself, written a script, and sent it to a Hollywood agent because that is freakin gold right there! And if Hollywood doesn't go for it, it would probably make a decent quirky indie film.
I don't know whether to be amused or appalled. So I'll go with ampulled.
I suppose it's not utterly different from generally getting emotionally invested fictional characters, but there's just way too much Pygmalion control freakishness going on here for my comfort zone (though it's still a step or two above this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_214/6358-Artificial-Thrills]).
Nothing unethical about it; It's just... sad in some way, as I doubt "cloud girlfriend" was the preferred choice anyone who choose to get this wanted to make.
If it was their primary preference though, good on them. Different strokes and all.
I really think this is sad. Pitifully sad. Especially the "make the real girl you truly want to go out with jealous". One of two thongs will happen, either said real girl will give up you, thinking you're already attached, or she wasn't interested in the first place, and she won't care a bit.
Really sad... (like we needed something else to support the "gamers and geeks are sad, lonely dweebs" stereotype)
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