Do you consider Artificial Intelligence alive? If not why not? And is there a line in the sand they have to cross to be considered alive? Both Holo from My Holo Love and Samantha from the movie Her, evolve so far past their initial coding that the other characters in their stories start to consider them as alive and treat them as such. Some of these characters even go so far as to fall in love with the AIs. Are they wrong to have feelings for a couple hundred lines of code with no physical body? Or are they respecting a living thing's capability to evolve? 

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