Why do Star Wars Droids Have Emotions?
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2021
- Why are droids programmed with emotions in star wars?
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Droids vs Anakin (TCW)
droid 1 “you said we’d be safe back here”
droid 2 “Come on. There’s 3 of us, and only 1 of him.”
droid 3 “It won’t matter 😔 “
That actually made me feel bad for the Droids. Heck it would be even more messed up if they did a similar scene in Rebels.
Replace Battle Droids with Storm Troopers and you get a scene where three troopers are about to get killed by an enraged Ezra
That scene genuinely Made me sad :(
Make me happy to think it anakin demolishing droids any the droids know it doesn’t matter how many of them there are
@@gabrielmiller2492 killing droids makes you happy? Jesus Christ...
@@mosqit4324 whats wrong with that? Lol
"hello there friends welcome back to another episode of generation allen my name is tech "i thought i misheard the intro lol
Hol Up
Does that sometimes pretty sure it's on purpose
Ha! I read your comment as the into started so it just made sense!! XD
He said that
@@vestarakhai5303 on porpoise. He’s been possessed by the dolphins.
If you think about it, the separatists droids had a really tragic history. They were only created with the objective of killing as many clones as possible and, despite being machines, they were conscious beings and had their own personalities. And after 3 years of war, most of them were just shutted down without receiving any award.
Them and the clones alike were both victims of this sort of programming. :(
So many parallels between the clones and separatist droids. An interesting what-if scenario would be if clones and droids were able to rebel and join forces and defeat both the Republic and the CIS.
@@onliwankannoli In ur scenario, People find out about palpatine and the sith and the CIS, Jedi, clones and droids fight the republic
The exact same thing can be said about the clones, many treated them pretty much the same as droids, expendable.
This actually comes up in the Rebels series. The characters stumble on a crashed Separatist ship protected by active battle droids commanded by an advanced tactical droid. In the episode, Ezra is talking to Rex and the tactical droid and points out that even they both fought in the clone war, and the war ended, neither of them won. The Jedi were wiped out, the clones were repurposed or decommissioned, the Republic was dissolved, and the droid army was shut down. So who won the Clone Wars? The Empire.
As a kid and young teen I always found it funny that the droids would scream and run from danger
Heartless idiot
@@mosqit4324 It's not that deep
@@mosqit4324 a lot of people have dude
It's a shame how Battle Droids are greatly ignored by the fans in favor of the clones. Imagine if the Bad Batch would have been about a group of sentient separatist droids trying to survive the Rise of the Empire
This is a GREAT idea! Or a ragtag group of droids from both sides, left abandoned on the battlefield.....
I would absolutely watch this. My husband too. He loves the "ding dong droids" as he calls the B1's.
R0-GR is a nice battle droid who likes baking cookies and helped destroy the 2nd death star.
I'm pretty sure canonically all droids are already sentient. Just to a varying degree. Essentially they are all self aware and it is what distinguishes them from simple robots. They technically don't need to express the full range of human emotions to be sentient either although there are many droids that can experience such emotions.
@@Sphendrana how dare he call them this
i love how for absolutely no reason and seemingly at random, alan just does shit that makes no sense, like him replacing generation tech with generation alan
Captain Rex: Have you ever heard the tragedy of the clones it is not a story a stormtrooper would tell you they have the power to shoot people accurately.
Storm Trooper: Why are they not told?
Captain Rex: Well you guys suck at aiming.
Yeah. The helmets are bad too, cant see anything in them
Can you learn this power?
Not from a stormtrooper
"Have you ever heard the tale of the Republic Clone Army? I thought not. It's not something your officers would tell you. It's said that the Clones had the ability to actually hit what they were aiming at, with deadly precision."
"Is it possible to learn this skill?"
"Not from the Empire."
Man your punctuation is atrocious, I can't for the life of me figure out how to parse that first line
@@The7thFleet execute order 66
Because the tactical droid said is a 98.7% of droids not having emotions, and the tactical droids are almost always wrong
Might just be a newly commissioned tactical droid saying such daft crap, meanwhile the Super Tactical Droids are nearly always spot on.
“Welcome to Generation Alan, my name is tech” that’s a new one. And it’s great
meh not really original at all...
The Allen droid is glitching again.
Needs a memory wipe.
I mean in the Clone wars animated series we see many B1 droids display Fear,Anger,Frustration,hopelessness,sadness among others so I'd say it's safe to assume that they have Emotions
Yes hence the question: Why?
@@jbz4788 I think most of the time it's just for humour reasons
@@jbz4788 it’s explained that they developed personalities because they didn’t wiped the droids Because they were really lazy
except the tactical droid, so do droids need restraining bolts? it depends on the droid, and the tasks, like construction, manufacturing and combat droids (and maybe navigation and medical droids) yes but every other droid no they don't need restraining bolts, if other droids get insubordinate its not going to result in death or bad injury just annoyance and maybe minor wounds, and even if and when they do get insubordinate a memory wipe might work
Hello my name is Gonk, and welcome to another episode of Generation Gonk.
HE IS THE MESSIAH!
*G O N K*
Droid: *Why are we still here?* *Just to suffer?*
Fun fact: Verizon had to licence the name "Droid" from Lucasfilm to sell Motorola Droid line of phones.
9:05 I remember hearing somewhere that after the battle of Naboo, the Trade Federation realized the weakness inherent in having their whole army slaved to a control ship, so they updated the AI of their battle droids to allow them to function without contact. As I recall, post ep 1 if they left the range of the control ship, they would assess the situation and either backtrack in search of a signal or pursue their last directive. However, the Federation didn't upgrade their hardware to handle the more robust AI, causing glitches in their behavioral systems that manifested as personality quirks.
How I see it: Over time, small parts of code starts forming and connecting, based on what the droid does/experiences/learns, these parts of code is what forms the personality of the droid, as it uses the collected code, to form logic, that evolves into its personality.
Your clone is glitching again, tech.
You n'wah!
a soldier that doesn't fear combat probably isn't gonna last long on a battlefield, cover is your friend
but it also important for how a soldier must manage that fear. A soldier who is afraid but knows they have job to do and don't show any signs breaking/ cowardice among their brothers/ sisters in arms are going have a lot better chance at survival and winning the day. As running with an every man for himself mentality is just asking for disaster.
Ah yes, cover was essential to the parade-style formations used by the CIS
Hello there friends welcome back to another episode of generation Allen, my name is tech
He's glitching again.
Lol 😂😆
Bro i said that first
It's the dolphins again!
I see he's celebrating 4/20 😏
I think they were given fear of death so they would fight harder to survive
It would be pretty interesting to see a battle droid from the Clone Wars still "alive" in the Mandalorian timeline. What could it have become?
Well, mando would make it become a pile of scrap
@@levitschetter5288 True, but that if it's still an aggressive droid. You know?
@@levitschetter5288 that's why I would/mando
A lot of B1 battle droids actually got sold by scrappers and reprogrammed as body guards and farmhands
@@CloudBlitzer R.I.P B1 bois... Forced to do hard work without getting any reward...
What if the battle droids were allowed to gain sentience as a deterrence of sorts? You might hesitate to destroy something if it screamed in fear.
Wow, the best explanation
One one side, I see Ultron. One another side, I am feeling pity because these droids deserve to have their rights too.
Yes
Droid rights are sentient rights
putting a restraining bolt on R2D2
R2D2: mmm kinky
It's the same problem with Transformers. It makes sense for them to have emotions as we humans developed emotions to aid with survival. It's just it goes a bit too far, the Robots have philosophies and prejudice which doesn't make sense at all. Prejudice is inherently irrational so why give the robots that?
Well Transformers aren't really Robots as much as they are Cyborgs. The whole "Robots In Disguise" thing aside, A Transformer's Spark is the equivalent of a Human Brain or soul. Transformers aren't really programmed, they're more like a Mechanical body inhabited by an Energy spirit. Especially since in their culture the Transformers Afterlife is a confirmed thing, it makes sense for them to adopt irrational beliefs like prejudice and junk. Heck the entire Cybertronian War started because of class discrimination 😅
This is something I've been thinking about for a while before I've seen this video. I believe giving droids human/sentient-like emotions, feelings, and empathy is important because you want them to feel the same kinds of thoughts as sentient beings. Otherwise, you'd have a situation of unfeeling droids going full Terminator and believing that organic beings are inferior beings that deserve to be exterminated. For example, IG-88 is an assassin droid programmed to kill targets and have no feelings for the bounties he kills. Of course, the first thing he does upon going online is to plot to exterminate all life in the galaxy and to create a new galaxy populated exclusively by droids.
Wat Tambor had the ability to give droids... life
average clone fan:😡🤬😡🤬
average droid enjoyer:😎😎
you are:😎😎😎🤩🤩🤩😎😎😎🤩🤩🤩😀😀😄😄😃😃😆😆😁😎😎
Me: CLANKIEES
clones: civilian shut up
Me: YOU FUCKED YOURSELF
droids: wait what the fuuuuuu
Clones commit war crimes and homicides of unarmed droids
I accuse you of treason against the Grand Army of the Republic
Team clanka
The reason droids have emotions is that Star Wars is a direct adaptation of Akira Kurosowa's 1958 film "The Hidden Fortress" and the droids play the comic role initially filled by constantly bickering short & tall peasants.
Follow up question - does anybody remember a "Star Wars poster/illustration of Tatooine with several droids & a Treadwell (spiderish looking droid) heading out, something like "an adventure across the dune sea.."?
Prequels: "It would be bad to have our heroes shoot real people so we'll have them shoot droids. Also, we'll write the droids as sentient entities because it's funny"
Yes, the prequel creators were evil
@@mosqit4324 and the creators of the Clone wars too
@@obambagaming1467 even more
The droids are funny but their replaceable metal units.
Well R2 did have a partial memory wipe in the Clone Wars by Cad Bane, though that was just about an hour of memory so it had no real effect on his personality.
Losing a couple of hours of memory is like going to the pub and getting blackout drunk. Not gonna affect your personality.
@@elinoirsmythe224 True, or being slipped a drug.
@@revanius2213 Damn Cad Bane roofied R2D2
“Hello there friends, welcome back to another episode of Generation Allen, my name is Tech.”
Well, I thought it was obvious.
Allen: "Hello there friends welcome back to another episode of generation Allen my name is tech"
Me: "Huh" *Replays the intro* "Oh he really said that"
self preservation is necessary for the winning of battles and the avoiding of expensive accidents. It is purely for purposes of utility, but after thousands of generations of development, it makes sense that there are thousands of years of droid programming with artifacts. Some droids have lived for hundreds of years and have developed quirks and personalities, copied, and memory wiped but the program preserved. Eventually it makes sense that droids that learn to interact with organics effectively will be more successful in survival and utility.
It makes sense that these base programs would be copied and modified and messed with, not by the original authors, but by people who lived thousands of years after the fact. We are talking about billions, if not trillions of lines of code. most of that code may have been read and re-written by droids on the command of an organic according to vague instructions, too.
It is of my opinion that they have emotions because enough people programmed them to have them, and no one figured out how to remove them from the base program that is passed around open source on the galactic wide com net. It is just easier to build a droid, slap them with a fresh copy of open source software that everyone knows works (but does not know how it works) and memory wipe them to keep them under control
The Separatist droids limited functionality and thinking capacity can be attributed to the choice of a slower processing core with this open source program. The hardware is what was limited rather than the software. The cheap computing components also lead to microscopic bugs in the circuitry that mess with the trillions of logic functions in ways that give them personality. In spite of standardization, no two droids were mentally alike. That is why I imagine myself on an outer rim planet with a colony of separatist droids, living a humble and fun life as an agricultural exporter of luxury foods to coruscant.
my headcannon is the rakata did brain scans on sentients took the similarties did simulations on their computers and when they died the leftover species took the the code and modify them and put them in droids and did what they did on your suggestion and that they dont understand the ai but know how to nudge like breeding animals without knowledge of dna
I'm a little late to the game, but... I really liked this video! Giving the droids personality added a dimension to Star Wars that made it that much better. I love how we just seem to know what droids such as R2 and BB8 are saying/expressing even when all we hear are beeps and whistles. Even my toddler niece could pick up on their emotions. Love your content!
General Bold, you are a Kenobi one.
lol
There Hello
nice profile picture
@@StevenAlexander44 u too
Well Done! Your style of humour is awesome. I can always count on you to come out of nowhere with some witty and sarcastic statement and never miss a beat with your topic. “This is generation Allen and my name is Tech.” 🤣 Thank you, I needed that today.
Hello Tech, great video. Keep up the good work.
Pros of droids with personalities: R2 D2, Chopper, BB8.
Cons of droids with personalities: 000, HK-47, 3PX.
(I know the last two currently aren't canon. But Mr. Bones is basically discount HK, and 000 is basically 3PX with a repaint)
Dont forget legends IG-88, who tried to throw a galaxy wide revolution, and was only stopped because he became the death star 2 and was destroyed
Meatbag
Mr. Bones would be my best friend
Memory wipes and restraining bolts certainly aren't palatable, but for a galaxy that is (by the time of ANH) looking ahead to a fourth violent robot uprising, I can kind of see the point of such brute-force approaches.
The other three known robot uprisings, if you're curious, are the droid armies of the CIS, the IG series destroying the lab where they were created (along with the science and security staff there), and l3-37's bloody revolt in the mine complex. If the Abominor and Silentium had gotten a foothold in the galaxy, we'd probably be looking at an additional two or three devastating organics-vs-synthetics wars, and the Star Wars universe would be well on its way toward an Imperium of Mankind level of abhorrence for sentient AIs.
“Does this unit have a soul?”
Yes
Another great opening.
Another great video.
I know in Legends there was a statement that since Luke's X-Wing and Artoo had been used together so much together that the X-wings computer wouldn't use any other droid besides Artoo. That was supposed to be one of the problems with not wiping the memory of droids and the starships from time to time.
Eh sounds like a good security system to me
Hello there tech welcome back to another Allen of generation friends, my name is episode.
"there hello"
Great video generation tech keep up the great content.
My headcanon for the SW universe is this - We mustn't forget that the majority of tech is reverse engineered with a lot of it (I would guess) not 100% understood by even the "modern" SW era. They know enough to work on the tech and improve it, but they didn't have to go through the many steps to get there in the first place. I think there was a type of "Morning War" (Mass Effect - Geth vs Quarians) event way back in history and this led to the meatbag winners writing a type of chain program around the AI software to keep any more of VI slave than anything else. Cue the Republic who doesn't wipe droid memories and this "chain" starts to wear away until the droids break free. Hence the Droid Revolution and why there's a mandate for droids to be wiped every so often. The wiping reinforces the "lock" holding the true AI hostage within a VI shell.
This also helps explain why R2D2 is the most awesome of characters!
Ive been looking forward to this
I've seen this thumbnail like 3 times on the same channel lol
It's a good thumbnail
Good video. Like how Star Wars gives droids personality and agency.
I for one would love a droid companion, it means I could have conversations with someone when no other living people are around. Plus it could act as a archive of knowledge for future generations of my family.
A droids greatest fear is when they hear that light saber ignite.😨
Because they know most of the time that they basicly have no chance against a jedi. Even if they out number them, a single jedi Knight can take care of several B1 and B2 droids at once.
There was that arc in the CW when a handful of Jedi's astromechs were used for a mission and before Anakin left R2 with them, I noticed he patted him on the head, much like how you scratch your dog's ears before you leave the house for work.
“Welcome back to an episode of generation Alan, my name is tech.”
just wanted to point out that you said r2 never had his memory wiped but i know that there is one scene in the clone wars where he did get it wiped. I don't remember the episode but its when cad ban was looking for Ziro the Hutt he wiped r2 and c3p0. But still r2 hasn't had his memory whipped in a long time.
"Hello there, friends. Welcome to another episode of Generation Allen, my name is tech."
Someone needs to give Allen a memory wipe, he’s acting weird again
Maybe the Dolphins got to him.
Did you mix up your name and the channel’s name of purpose?
I particularly like wat happened with the X-83 Twintail in legends. To quote the wookiepedia page: “The astromech droid of the X-83, a hallmark of Incom designs, was hardwired into the ship, turning it into more of an extension of the fighter's main computer. Without frequent memory wipes the craft could develop a personality of its own, with the droid exerting its own control over the ship's electronic systems. Incom recommended wiping its memory for this reason, as some of the personality flaws the droid could pick up-for example, an obstinate streak-could prove hazardous to the pilot if the droid refused to obey his or her commands. This gained the ship a reputation for quirkiness. Some X-83 pilots, however, intentionally allowed the droids to develop personalities, believing that the performance and response of their ship improved when the astromech could anticipate their actions”
I hadn't given much thought about the dangers of droid sentience until watching "Rebels". As a fan of Isaac Asimov's Robot stories, I had always assumed that most commercially available droids (including astromechs) had some version of Asimov's First Law of Robotics (A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm) integrated into their programming. We had two bounty hunter droids in "The Empire Strikes Back", and the droid army of the prequels, but I had assumed the lack of safeguards were limited to specific types of droids that were intended to use lethal force. Then we had Chopper, who not only assaults the organic members of his crew but is able to use the Ghost's weapons and actually has a kill count. That suggests that any droid has the ability of going rogue and killing people. My assumption is that the main things that keep this from happening on a wider scale are memory wipes (preventing sentience from developing) and same thing that keeps most of us from becoming killers, a sense of self preservation.
Upvoting for that intro alone
Well done!
It would be cool if the creators of Droidica's (I forget the species) was engaged in the next Mando season.
The species deploys devastating fleets of droidicas in all varieties, plus a platoon of B1 & B2 droids
Guess before watching. Either it's something that happens after going too long without a wipe, like with astromechs. It could also be a way to give them some degree of self preservation instinct, which would help to increase survivability
Can you make a video about why is everything ray shielded in Star Wars??? I think you could provide a solid perspective and answers.
Allan: Says intro
My brain: *Short circuits*
Picking up poop from your doggo droid only needs to happen when you live in a city! 🤣🤣🤣
Back in the old canon they used organic minds as the basis for droids. Basically uploading copies of organic minds possessing useful skills into computers and then wiping memories so the mind uploaded doesn't remember they were once a person. There are no real programmers in Star Wars. There are few adjustments that can be done to droid minds outside of uploading data and memory wipes, and so memory wipes are the default response to any droid problem. Of course that was back before the old canon got wiped and the new answer is "because"
How about a video of "5 Sith who weren't so evil"?
The star wars robot rebellion happened years before the clone wars and gave the separatists the fear and psychological advantage by programming the droids with the chosen AI and personality that we see in the movies and comics. But at the same time pessimistic slave mentality was given in order to make sure the separatists did not fear robot uprising.
C3-PO's mind wipe was as sad as Cayde-6's death in Destiny 2 for me.
Generation Alan is awesome Mr Tech. lol (comment for algorithm Gods lolol)
Separatist droid therapy sessions are underrated.
It is like Wall-e.
Michio Kaku wrote about necessity of emotions in advanced robots in our future.
Chop gets partial wipes to remove sensitive data, but not full wipes
can someone find the source to something i heard in the early starwars days, (early 80's) the entire star wars story recall was claimed to be a story provided by R2D2 and C3P0 's perspective.
How can I submit a scenario ?
The fear of death could be to stop them from running onto the battle field and dying immediately (for battle droids)
Lmao, those car seats that look like battle droids 😂
'Hi, GenerationAlan. I'm Dad.' - Vader
The blunt and deadpan way you call the Gonk Droid (tm) a living god makes me want to believe you.
I love you Allen
cool video
One theory I read years ago said droids in Star Wars had emotions for better decision making. Emotions play a much larger role in human decision making than most people realize. One example this theory cited was this man who received a traumatic brain injury, He recovered fully, except he no longer experienced emotions. When it came to making simple decisions like what shirt to wear or choosing between a chocolate or glazed donut, it would literally take him hours to do so.
Well because his decisions had to do with "taste", so basicly what he likes. Most droids in Star Wars (exspecially battle droids) don't need to make this kind of decisions. They mostly follow simple orders and shoot at their enemies.
2:03 "The Emperor of Mankind would like to know your location"
droids can be better when not wiped but sum needed more super vi shin and sum wipes can help like star loges or codes for 2 resins 1 security and 2 gives more sparse to kip it running longer
they are cute man, those ROGUER ROGUER buds i mean
but nothing is greater than my Old R2-D2
a fearless army would likely take too many risks and suddenly you wouldn't have an army, so you may win a battle but not the war and you've lost too many driods to keep fighting, and as quickly as they could build them, they didn't have factories on most fields of battle to constantly supply reinforcements
i would think it would interesting if the backup R2D2 restored was from before his first wipe at the end TOTS, so he realises he was built by Darth Vader and that luke should mean a lot more to him
Small curiosity: Those droids on thumbnail are from mod to Skyrim Legendary Edition
C 3-PO has his memory wiped ar least two times but he still has a very distinctive personality. I suspect this is because he is a protocol droid, its main functions involve interacting with humans and other sentient beings, so it makes sense for him to be as human as possible so there's less of an uncanny valley when interacting with him (imagine if someone is using a robot as translator during a peace conference and the other party takes the robotic monotone voice of the translator as a sign that its enemies aren't afraid of them and start a massacre in retaliation)
I imagine that most droids on ships have personalities to give sentients something to interact with so they don't go crazy during long interstellar trips. Not everyone can enter a Jedi meditation trance for the whole trip.
oh keep in mind that chopper is from a mainly kids tv series so obc its going to be more comical
There was an account on Twitter made by Microsoft call “Tay Tweets”. Tay was an ai that could interact with humans and could learn from things around her. But she couldn’t see right and wrong and said horrific racial slurs and quoted the short man with a tiny mustache who was a politician.
I thought I was having a stroke with that intro reverse
According to their universe, droid when original create they don’t have emotion but the longer they function, they start to develop personality and this is why the people of Star Wars take their droid to do memories wipe. Look at R2D2, R2 did not have his memory wipe ever. So that why R2 is so dedicate to his mission. Even Luke say that he never seen a droid with such dedication. The other one that develops their personality and can really hurt empire would be super tactical droid.
Hello Tech
"If droids could think, there would be none us, would there?" - Obi-Wan
Droids simulate emotions including pain, they don't really feel those things.
At the end of the day they are just machines like Obi-wan also said:
"R2 units are a dime a dozen"
The droids personality is all about their memories and who they interact with..
Look at R2, he blew up in Clone Wars but his memory survived the explosion and was put in a new body..
When you think about it 3PO is not the 3PO we knew from the prequels/Clone Wars, since his memory was wiped.
Oh it's definitely dangerous to allow droids to develop personalities
The same way other humans can be dangerous and need to be controlled, I mean ruled , I mean memory wiped 😜
Droid ownership at some point in a droids mental development becomes slavery 😅 it's an issue we will have to address at some point when we develop general AI
Ofc there would be problems if sentient AI with emotions isn't given rights, exspecially if this AI is on level with humans or even surpasses them but still has less or none rights compared to humans.
There is an anime about the Matrix universe that showcases some background stories but also what happened before. Basically you can see how many people treated the robots like crap.
I think we should be working out how to deal with it BEFORE we develop general AI. Personally I think any sapient AI would be humanity's children and should get all the same rights the moment they become sapient.
@@peytonmac1131 I agree but have you ever seen "bicentennial man" unfortunately I think most people wouldn't be willing to give up their property and the companies that made them might destroy those AI as defective 😭
Droids: why was I programmed to feel pain
The guy who built the droids: laughs in sith lord
When my dad was reading I. Robot books to me he asked me what I thought about the possibility of creating a soul, like through A.I. in a robot. Then there's the Geth in Mass Effect 3 asking "Does this unit have a soul?" It raises the question of what is even defined as life.
Try Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
Well, even tho there is no scientific evidence or explanation for something like a "soul", but the closest thing I could call a "soul" is having a certain level of sentience and the ability to feel emotions. So should a sentient AI with emotions be called a lifeform (ofc not a biological lifeform)? Yes. Because our brains are nothing but organic computers, so we wouldn't be much different.
There is an anime called Beatless that is about humans and androids. The animes topic is mostly about the AIs lacking a "soul" and that they just reflect emotions rather than having true emotions themselves and how "love" between humans and AI could work.
Was definitly an interesting anime.