Expert predicts humans will have sex with robots by 2050

[edbermac]

If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will even marry them. And it will all be good.

Levy lays out his vision of a Brave New Carnal World in Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, which, despite its extended riffs on sex toys through the ages, is a snigger-free book. Levy's no Al Goldstein. Rather he's a 62-year-old British chess master turned artificial-intelligence expert persuaded that robot sex can brighten the lives of many, many unhappy people. "Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7,'' he writes on the final page of the book. What's not to like?

"Chess'' and "sex'' aren't words that normally share the same sentence, but in Levy's case, the one led to the other. A keen chessman since boyhood, by the time he got to St. Andrews University he played at the international level. At the university he got interested in computers and the challenge of programming machines to play chess. Eventually he earned international recognition for his work on chess-playing computers and natural-language software, and in the mid '90s headed a team that won the Loebner Prize, widely regarded as the world championship of conversational software. Today he owns a firm that develops electronic hand-held brain games.

Designing computers that talk like humans naturally led to the larger question of how humans interact with robots, which are nothing more than computers with arms and legs and a head. The Japanese have taken the lead in developing "partner robots,'' machines that, for example, might do household tasks for elderly people. But if you could invent a robot that serves cocktails, could you not invent a robot that would make a superior bedmate?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/5414105.html

Just what do think you are doing, Dave?

[JVS]

1. Bend over HAL! I'm sorry Dave, I can't allow that.

I propose that we as a country try to have sex-robots by 2020!

[edbermac]

2. Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.

Uh-huh...:evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. HAL - HAL! Open the airlock! For the love of God, HAL, open the airlock!!

[underpants]

3. this would mean much less breeding for most, but for him, "much, much more".

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Quoth Homer Simpson, "I dunno, you gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot."

[Deja Q]

5. Another Futurama prediction comes true!! (you've GOT to watch this!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHD3RnRmZE

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[JVS]

18. Hear the wisdom of the Space Pope!

[Magleetis]

6. Reminds of the movie

West World. A robot malfunction could be disastrous when it involves ones "area". Ouch.

[Deep13]

7. Guess I'm ahead of my time.

:evilgrin:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. "Danger, Will Robinson. I'm getting horny."

[Steven_S]

12. ya know....

I always thought Dr. Smith was bonkin' that robot when nobody was looking. :)

[Deja Q]

15. Most people thought he was bonkin' Will...

Given how the females were always on the ship cooking or cleaning, he never had the time to do anything except put them all in danger... (that show was disgustingly sexist...)

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. And there was much rejoicing

[Pierre.Suave]

11. I am pretty sure that...

even when that happens, I will still prefer sex with a real live human female.

[flvegan]

13. "Are those real or fake?"

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. The best ones, of course, will speak German.

:rofl:

I hope someone gets that reference... and I'm sure they will.

[cosmik debris]

22. I got it! n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. I bet you did!

:rofl:

[cosmik debris]

24. As I recall

robots came after the vegetables and muffins, but before mud sharks and pygmy ponies.

[NewJeffCT]

16. and, here are those life-like sex robots -

[billyskank]

17. I probably still won't get lucky.

[ChoralScholar]

19. I can see the bumper stickers now:

[UrbScotty]

20. Ann Romney already does (nt)

[Javaman]

21. "so baby, do you like an America or European outlet?" nt