David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher and international chess master, defended last week his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. The name of his thesis is “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners” and the University announced it under the name “Love and Sex with Robots.” Levy says that trends in robotics and artificial intelligence will, ‘within a few decades, result in robots that are so humanlike in their appearance and functionality, in their personality, and in their expression of emotions, that many people will be falling in love with them, having sex with them, and even marrying them.’ Will it really happen? Are you ready for this?
Will you one day marry a robot?
- October 19th, 2007
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@ 11:18
I can well imagine the popularity of this especially in the first world where having children is becoming increasingly burdensome and expensive. Love with an entity that could not possibly conceive would make things very convenient.
Taking the concept a step further, one could imagine being able to specify exactly the characteristics one might want in a “mate” which is so much less problematic and uncertain than taking chances on a human/ human relationship.
roig