This was somebody's THESIS?

[cherydactyl]

Forecast: Sex and marriage with robots by 2050

I'm all for exploring the limits of Artificial Intelligence, but this just astonishes me.

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yeah, wtf

[orogeny2000.livejournal.com]

Beyond they myriad of thoughts this article brings up, ther is the question, would something like marrying a robot ever be accepted as legal. Marriages are more than love or sex, in our culture they are also legal contracts including all kinds of financial ties. How could a robot ever be any kind of partner in that? Beyond that problem, there is technology and expense. Technology truly takes us to interesting but strange and certainly controversial places.

Re: yeah, wtf

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

The only way marriage with an artificial intelligence would happen if if artificial persons come to be considered persons in all legal senses. We're a long way from having AI that could be considered a competent individual in a legal sense.

[dspitzle.livejournal.com]

Personally, I suspect that while sex in 5 years strikes me a likely, marriage won't occur for N+50 years, where N is the number of years it takes from now for somebody to create a robot somebody would >want< to marry.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

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.