I totally agree with you, but the guy with the thesis is talking about people essentially marrying their "intelligent" sex toys. There's a big leap between having a little logic in a device to having an artificial intelligence capable of having a relationship. Until artificial persons are good enough to withstand a 50-year, sustained, broad, and intimate Turing test, one that includes testing for the AI being able to keep secrets, understand human development, and understand confidentiality among other things, marrying one makes no freaking sense.

And geez, the idea of an artificial intelligence standing as a parent anytime soon just makes my skin crawl--our AI just isn't up to that. And I *like* AI.