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.

[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.