Sex with Robots
This is one of the more odd Ph.D. theses I’ve ever heard of. It’s Isaac Asimov meets science fiction adult film.
According to David Levy, who is about to receive his doctorate from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, in the future, people will have intimate relations with robots. I am really not entirely sure why everyone is so excited about this argument, but it looks like it will get the soon to be Dr. Levy a few lucrative book deals.
Maybe it’s the next step in controversial human sexual relationships and maybe it’s just the wet dream of dateless nerds everywhere. Either way, I still think it’s really weird.
Read all about it from the UK’s Daily Mail below:
People could be falling in love and having sex with robots in a few decades and even marrying them, according to a British artificial intelligence researcher.
David Levy, originally from London, has made the controversial forecasts about the future of human-robot relationships in his Ph.D thesis.
In "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners", he argues that current trends in robotics and artificial intelligence mean the leap to humans and robots forming relationships is not far away.’
Mr Levy, also an International Master in chess, believes robots will soon appear so like humans in the way they look and act, in their personality and how they express emotions, that many people will fall in love with them.
His predictions are based on his analysis of certain trends and on what he sees as the inevitability of how they will continue in the future.
One trend looked at was how the objects of human affection have slowly expanded beyond other humans.
Firstly, it extended to pet animals, then to virtual pets like the Tamagotchi and robotic dogs.
According to Levy’s thesis, this will soon extend to robotic people.
Another trend followed human attitudes to sex as sexual behaviour has become steadily more liberal.
The thesis also examined the principal reasons, identified by research psychologists, why we fall in love and why we have sex.
Most of these reasons are shown in the thesis to be equally applicable to the human-robot relationships of the future as they are for human-human relationships today.
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