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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.