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Can Robots Fall in Love, and Why Would They?

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The interesting question raised by Spike Jonze’s new film, Her, is not whether humans can fall in love with computers,but whether computers would ever have emotions.

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Had Theodore Twombly chosen the voice of Gilbert Gottfried for his operating system, the history of cinema might have turned out very differently. But given the option, I, too, would have sprung for the honeysuckle breath of Scarlett Johansson asking for permission to clean out my inbox.

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