Human Friends Please

The gift of friendship is something that is born out of understanding, mutual situations (either negative, positive or neutral) above all, friendship is a gradual process which is continuous as long as the parties involved are intentional about learning each other.

With the advent of technology, we have come to enjoy some ease from robots. The speed, accuracy and efficiency that is synonymous with robots makes it a very enjoyable experience and most people would want to replicate it at any given time. But when this relationship goes beyond work and begins to tilt towards interpersonal relationship with a robot, it becomes dicy.

Robots and AI, have proven to be very good learners but with flaws. One could argue that humans have flaws too but I have noticed that in question and answer scenarios, Ai lacks the ability to retain corrections, it would still go with the previous knowledge it has had.

This is very dangerous in friendship because sometimes, friendship is between people who are from opposite tribes or religion. Initially, these people may harbor wrong impressions about each other but later adjust as they realise it was just a fallacy. It may not be the same with Ai amd robots.

The dangerous thing too about robots is that, depending on the level of knowledge it comes with, you never can know how much bias it has and what the original information it comes with.

I have also watched movies where robots went out of control and did beyond their job description and it is annoying and scary at the same time.

Because of these reasons, I would not like to have a robot as a friend. I do not like the unpredictability that comes with such an efficient invention because even when it goes bad, it is very efficient in doing bad. I would prefer having human friends, at least when they turn bad, they leave loopholes and lapses that I can exploit and not loose too much.

I would not mind having a robot to do my chores though, it would even make life much easier. I draw the line at friendship. It's a no for me.