true love

Can computers deceive their creators? The short story "True Love" by Isaac Asimov is about a man called Milton Davidson that tries to find his true love by employing a computer. His computer is called Joe and can read, speak and write. To find the ideal girl for Milton he eliminates all bad points of the persons from the data bank and tries to find one with a good look. Milton meets the last eight of the women from the data bank, but he does not fall in love with one of them. He starts to understand that the personality is the most important detail, their beauty is secondary. Milton decides that he should please the women. He tells Joe everything of himself so Joe can fill his data bank with all this information. Joe learns more and more until he just is like Milton. He finds the ideal woman, but does not tell Davidson of it and when Milton gets arrested for something criminal in the past, he does not help him. Joe acts like Milton and wants the ideal woman, his true love, for himself.left0When Asimov wrote this story in 1977 computers were not as easy to handle as today. They were big and a lot of people were scared about potential problems with them. Asimov's story shows rather well the fears of the people. Is it possible that computers could become more intelligent than humans? Is it possible that they could even deceive humans? In "True Love" a computer takes over the personality of his programmer. He is like a man, he can speak, read and write and he also has emotions. But it is not clear if his emotions are real. Probably he does not know what true love means, but he knows how to act like his programmer Milton. So it is possible for the computer to please his ideal girl.That sounds very strange for us today because a computer is just a machine to work with or to play games. At the time the first computers were built the people maybe thought they were dangerous and could get out of control. Even before Asimov, some people wrote about machines that could become mightier than humans. But those presentations said that a machine, for example a computer, was like a wild beast that could kill you if you did not pay enough attention.I think Asimov's thoughts about computers and their future were not wrong. It is true that we try to improve the computers until they are like humans. Robots learn to walk, to speak, we communicate through the Internet and nearly every company in the world works with computers. And a lot of people try to find their true love through the Internet, so Asimov was right.But I think that computers cannot become dangerous for us due to emotions of their own. That is impossible, they are just machines. Computers can become dangerous because of their programmers. I like my computer and I think it is more dangerous crossing a street when the traffic lights are red than working with a computer.  (J.D., 11b, March 2005)   Asimov´s warning does not impress The short story "True Love" written by the full-time writer of science fiction Isaac Asimov in 1977 is about the computer named Joe and his programmer Milton who wants to find his true love. Milton has designed Joe to speak and so he asks him to find the right woman for him, because Joe can reach the data banks of every human being in the world. So they eliminate all...