Better question: could you stop yourself from loving one?
Why am I entertaining the thought that it'd be impossible to avoid feeling "in love" with an AI? Simple. It's already possible to determine a person's emotional state through technology similar to facial recognition. Here's a source: https://theconversation.com/ai-can-now-read-emotions-should-it-128988
All that's necessary now is to tie the reward function of an AI to the emotional state: "in love"
The AI would then learn from its interactions with you what it should say and do to put you in that state and keep you there.
You probably think to yourself, "I wouldn't fall for this because I wold always know it wasn't real" but that's something of a conceit. You're an animal. You are absolutely vulnerable to manipulations just like any animal. You're manipulated by advertising all the time even though you deny it or don't realize it. For you to say, "I wouldn't fall for this; I know it's not real" is as dumb as a guy living in 1900 (before there were TVs) saying, "this porn you are describing is just pixels; it wont sexually excite me" - you're an animal with instincts.
There are several examples of this in science fiction: "Her" is one. "Blade Runner" is another. There's also a real-world attempt:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
The main limitation that I imagine they're having currently is that AI has to fail thousands or millions of times before it starts winning. There's no way (with current AI tech) that it would learn to make you fall in love if it could only interact with you. You'd be dead of old age before it figured you out. But, if these devices were networked and all feeding into the same neural net, then maybe it could learn.
Why am I entertaining the thought that it'd be impossible to avoid feeling "in love" with an AI? Simple. It's already possible to determine a person's emotional state through technology similar to facial recognition. Here's a source: https://theconversation.com/ai-can-now-read-emotions-should-it-128988
All that's necessary now is to tie the reward function of an AI to the emotional state: "in love"
The AI would then learn from its interactions with you what it should say and do to put you in that state and keep you there.
You probably think to yourself, "I wouldn't fall for this because I wold always know it wasn't real" but that's something of a conceit. You're an animal. You are absolutely vulnerable to manipulations just like any animal. You're manipulated by advertising all the time even though you deny it or don't realize it. For you to say, "I wouldn't fall for this; I know it's not real" is as dumb as a guy living in 1900 (before there were TVs) saying, "this porn you are describing is just pixels; it wont sexually excite me" - you're an animal with instincts.
There are several examples of this in science fiction: "Her" is one. "Blade Runner" is another. There's also a real-world attempt:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
The main limitation that I imagine they're having currently is that AI has to fail thousands or millions of times before it starts winning. There's no way (with current AI tech) that it would learn to make you fall in love if it could only interact with you. You'd be dead of old age before it figured you out. But, if these devices were networked and all feeding into the same neural net, then maybe it could learn.
