CYBER LOVE: Some Thoughts about Interspecies Communication Humanoid: I love you! Series-7000 Love-bot: That statement is unclear. Humanoid: I find you alluring. Series-7000 Love-bot: Understood. That's for what I was designed for. Humanoid: So what can you actually do? Series-7000 Love-bot: I can help you learn 126 languages or play 996 games or prepare 1256 foods or recite 51218 poems or read 1,680,262 books. I'm also adept at 12 martial arts and can assist you with 108 forms of meditation. Humanoid: Umm. That sounds interesting. How about sex? Series-7000 Love-bot: It's feasible, but not the optimal use of my resources. I will require a battery charge within 6 hours and cost 1.2 micro credits per minute. Humanoid: Well, I'm still a cyber-virgin, so let's go! Series-7000 Love-bot: (thinking to itself) Humans are so dreadfully boring & predictable! Liao: There's something hollow about this dialog . . . Nadya: Yeah – it's not between two real human beings, but simply a person and his/her imagination. Bill: Aren't many so-called "conversations" are that way? Real communication seems rare. Gus: Perhaps that's why humans invented robots for companionship . . . ===================================================================================== from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: An imaginary conversation between a robot and a human and some thoughts about communication. KEYWORDS: human-robot conversations, love rituals, artificial communication, authenticity Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/compu.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CyberPoems/bliss.htm TRANSLATIONS DEUTSCH: http://www.tnewfields.info/de/mind.htm ESPAÑOL: http://www.tnewfields.info/es/sentido.htm FRANÇAISE: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/mont.htm NIHONGO: http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kouyou.htm