Would you use it? A new film features a machine that tells couples whether they are truly in love with one another. It could make the world better. Or it could make love boring.
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Imagine a machine to find 100% perfect love
Would you use it? A new film features a machine that tells couples whether they are truly in love with one another. It could make the world better. Or it could make love boring.
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Anna and Ryan are the perfect couple. They have scientific proof. A few years ago, the pair took part in a new test. They each tore off a fingernail and put it in a machine that judges their relationship. Anna and Ryan scored a perfect 100%.1
Yet Anna is not happy. Her life with Ryan has become boring. Maybe her own relationship is not so perfect after all?
This is the plotStoryline. of Fingernails, a new film. What would life be like if we had a machine that could tell us if we were truly in love?
This may not be so far away. Apps already use AIA computer programme that has been designed to think. to help people find matches. But the Fingernails machine would be a huge advance.
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It could stop others from staying in the wrong relationships. There are thousands of divorcesWhen people who are married legally separate. and break-ups each year.2 The machine could prevent couples who are not really in love from marrying.
It could also help people come to terms with love that is not returned. The test could help to prove to people that the person they love is not "the one" after all.
Yet there are downsides to being informed. Love is not always at first sight. People change. Feelings change too.
Love is stranger and more complexDifficult or complicated. than a number. As Author Marian Keyes writes: "Love is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure."
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Would you use it?
Yes! Machines can make our lives better by telling us new things about ourselves. Of course it would be good to find out if you have the perfect match.
No! We do not want our lives to be controlled by numbers and machines. Love is something that you feel - a machine cannot help here.
Keywords
Plot - Storyline.
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Divorces - When people who are married legally separate.
Complex - Difficult or complicated.
Imagine a machine to find 100% perfect love
Fingernails: Anna is not sure about her love for Ryan, even though a machine says they are a 100% match. Glossary
Plot - Storyline.
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Divorces - When people who are married legally separate.
Complex - Difficult or complicated.