Huffington Magazine Issue 84 | Page 56

Exit TECH HUFFINGTON 01.19.14 COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES You Are Destined to Fall in Love With Bots BY BIANCA BOSKER A FRIEND RECENTLY confessed that when he first met his fiancée, he suspected she was a bot. At the time, figuring out whether the chats on the dating site came from a fembot or female meant the difference between dismissing spam and pursuing romance. But we’re nearing the point where our dearest partners could just as easily be a line of code as a human being. One day, we might even prefer the bots. Spike Jonze’s new film, Her, presents one vision of how these Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore in Spike Jonze’s Her.