THE ROBOTS

Robots will never have feelings. Mathematics reveals that robots can’t experience emotions like us.

A professor from the National University of Ireland, says consciousness can’t be created in a robot’s infinite time using limited memory.

Roboticists might create machines that show their feelings, but one maths model says emotional machines like Marvin, the android from the film Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy won’t exist.

According to one mathematical model of how our brains create consciousness, emotional machines will never exist. This is because computers can’t cope with any process that completely integrates information, so they cannot be conscious and capable of feeling, one expert claims.

It is easy enough for machines to edit a collection of individual images, but memories are composed of a bank of intertwined images and experiences and cannot be altered in the same way.

Researchers have used mathematics to show that computers cannot handle the complex processes needed to connect pieces of information together seamlessly.

Professor Maguire says that consciousness cannot be created in a physical machine in finite time using limited memory. ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean that there is some magic going on in the brain that involves some forces that can’t be explained physically. It is just so complex that it’s beyond our abilities to reverse it and decompose it,’ he said. His research may mean that lonely humans will not find love with a robot, and they are unlikely to be made their slaves, either.

By Sarah Griffiths from DailyMail Website