Algorithms For Love Summary

As AI begin to become more advanced, the time is near where legislature will have to discuss the possibility of determining personhood for AI. James Boyle brought this dilemma to attention in his essay “Endowed by Their Creator?”. Boyle says that certain tests must be set to separate man from AI. Many of these tests are not yet created but Ken Lu’s Algorithms for Love suggests a scenario where many different benchmarks can be incorporated. He brings questions about the intelligence of AI in comparison to humans, the illusion of free will in humans, and the purpose of AI.
In Algorithms for Love, the character Elena constructs a robotic doll whose purpose is to replicate human behavior and conversation. In constructing her doll, building neural

It is a test conducted on AI to determine their ability to replicate human conversation and in some circles, is extrapolated to human consciousness. The Turing Test is when a human unknowingly interacts with an AI in some way as to communicate with it. The AI passes the Turing Test if an AI is “able to engage in sustained unstructured communication in a way that mimics human interaction so precisely as to make differentiation impossible without physical examination” (Boyle 6). The traits of a Turing capable AI is a personality, varied responses, and a glimpse at deeper thought. In Algorithms for Love Elena’s doll passes the Turing test without any doubt by the investigator. If Elena never told Brad that the doll was a robot, he would have believed that he was talking to a human all along (Lu). For an AI to pass the Turing Test means that unless the AI is displayed in a non-human form, both a judge and jury would assume the AI to be human, granting that AI personhood in a court of Law. So, does that mean courts and lawmakers must establish laws and precedence that an AI must reveal its true nature in court? Or does it mean that AI that pass the Turing Test should be granted some sort of