The Gray Ares of Technology 12pm

We watched a video in class about technology in this video the husband died in a car accident and in order to cope with the grief the wife decided to talk to a computer version of him online after a few weeks of talking to him online she decided to do this trial where an almost robot version of him is sent to her house and sounded and looked exactly like him. As she spent time with him she starts to notice the little differences between Ash 1 and Ash 2. She eventually comes to realize that the robot version of him is not enough and leaves him in the attic for her daughter to talk to on special occasions. While I think this concept is really neat I could not see myself using this in a grieving process. I believe there are just somethings that you cannot replace and human life is one of them. No matter how much time someone puts into making the person exactly like the person they lost they will never be able to remotely sound and respond like your loved one it would always feel robotic or faked. I do however think this may help a lot of other people with grieving it offers them a second chance to say goodbye or someone to talk to if they needed it because people always say, “I wish I could hear their voice one more time” I do not necessarily think that they need the robot version of them but I think that the online texting and the phone calling might be something a lot of people would be at least interested in. This type of technology is something that would have bad reviews and good reviews because of the matter being that it will never truly be the person you are trying to replace and that is probably what would stop this type of invention from being made because as we talked about on Monday there is only so much realism in technology before it starts to become creepy to people and I think this type of technology is a metaphorically teeter tottering on weird for most people. All in all I think this idea could be a good output for most people giving them the second chance to say goodbye and hopefully closure I just do not think it should be a permanent situation.