According to an artificial intelligence expert David Levy from University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, sex with robots will be possible by 2050 because of improved AI.
Robots will make attractive companions capable of fulfilling us sexually and emotionally, thanks to advances in their appearance, senses, personalities and capacity to fall in love.
Levy says it can go as far as marrying a robot and the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots because it is more liberal than most other jurisdictions in the United States and has been at the forefront of same-sex marriage.
The Japanese are already working on such robots and they have unveiled the most human-looking robot to date. Secret research is being done now which looks towards the future to build robots so real they will fool humans, in other words they maybe sitting next to you and you would never even know it. The Japanese scientists call their new robot android Repliee Q1 Expo.
Repliee Q1 Expo
She flutters her eyelids in normal human increments, looks like she is breathing and moves her hands just like a human would. This robot has over 42 actuators.
Levy said:
A good relationship needs some sort of friction. If you want to, you can have a robot that is completely faithful, or you can have a robot that is programmed to be completely faithful so long as you’re completely faithful, or a robot that strays every now and again. It just depends on what you want.
He wouldn’t exclude robots from child rearing either. One can’t envisage traditional reproduction with a robot, but technology will develop and there will be some sort of process that involves a robot contributing to the personality and psychological makeup of a child.
He is of the view that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, and one of them is “people who share similarities in personality and knowledge fall in love” which is programmable in a human-robot relationships. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that’s programmable too.
A robot that designs new robots is just one kind of reproduction that Levy suggests is possible.
He recently completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships and presented a thesis Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partner.
2 responses so far
1 creativelimits ~ Jun 29, 2008 at 4:41 pm
hahahahahhahahaha hang on… no no just hahahahahahahaha
2 Kiyani ~ Jun 30, 2008 at 12:52 am
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