Artificial Companionship and Therapy (13)

Ways in which Artificial Intelligence can assist those with mental disabilities or provide companionship

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  • Kinolab
  • 2016
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Technology and the Tangibility of Human Memory

Westworld, a western-themed amusement park, is populated by realistic robotic creatures known as “hosts” that are designed in a lab and constantly updated to seem as real and organic as possible. Bernard, a worker at the park, stumbles across robotic hosts that are monitored and directed solely by the park’s director, Dr. Ford. Ford reveals that these robots are an enactment of nostalgic memories from his younger days that he wishes to preserve, especially since they were built by an old friend of his. Relates to digital memory and delaying forgetting.

  • Kinolab
  • 2016
  • 7 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2013
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Martha and Ash Part I: Digital Revival and Human Likeness in Software

At some point in the near future, Martha’s husband Ash dies in a car accident. In order to help Martha through the grieving process, her friend Sara gives Ash’s data to a company which can create an artificial intelligence program to simulate text and phone conversations between Martha and Ash. Through the chat bot, Ash essentially goes on living, as he is able to respond to Martha and grow as more memories are shared with the program.

  • Kinolab
  • 2013
  • 9 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2013
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Martha and Ash Part II: Digital Revival and Human Likeness in Hardware

At some point in the near future, Martha’s husband Ash dies in a car accident. In order to help Martha through the grieving process, her friend Sara gives Ash’s data to a company which can create an artificial intelligence program to simulate text and phone conversations between Martha and Ash. Eventually, this program is uploaded onto a robot which has the exact likeness of the deceased Ash. Upon feeling creeped out by the humanoid robot and its imprecision in terms of capturing Ash’s personality, Martha wants nothing more than to keep the robot out of her sight.

  • Kinolab
  • 2013
  • 3 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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Digital Duplicates and Friendship

Rachel, a fifteen year old fan of the pop star Ashley O, is gifted an Ashley Too doll for her birthday. Ashley Too is a robot who contains a synaptic snapshot of Ashley O, and thus emulates her personality and can carry on a conversation with the owner of the doll.

  • Kinolab
  • 2019
  • 13 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2001
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Relationships and Love with Robotic Children

In an imagined 22nd century in which climate change has wreaked havoc on the Earth, scientists have created “Mechas,” or humanoid robots. A certain group of scientists begins to dedicate themselves to creating a robot who is capable of love and of having dreams. David, one of these new robots, is tested with Monica, a mother whose son is in a coma after contracting a mysterious disease.

  • Kinolab
  • 2001
  • 4 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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Robot Relationships and Marriage

K is an android who works with the LAPD to track down and destroy escaped older models of “replicants,” or humanoid robots, in a world where androids work as laborers without compensation. In this clip, we meet K’s virtual wife, Joi. Although she is not ‘real,’ it seems like she has real human feelings and presents like a human woman who provides K company and can complete tasks such as making him dinner.

  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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