<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 May 2011 08:23, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If you want a serious treatment of this subject, I highly recommend<br>
Love + Sex with Robots by David Levy. This book is not exactly for<br>
kids or anything, but it is a very serious visit into a weird corner<br>
of the future. David argues very convincingly that this WILL happen,<br>
and not as far out as most of us might think.<br>
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I suspect someone very soon will combine robotics with the RealDoll,<br>
and create an extremely expensive, amazing device that will make the<br>
moral majority very uncomfortable.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>This makes me think of the debate endlessly resurfacing on the poorly-defined and somewhat contradictory idea "friendly AIs".<br><br>If a robot is bound to (behave as if he) be sexually attracted by you, you are not likely to recognise it as a sexual partner rather than a well-performing masturbatory device, same as you are not going to consider as "intelligent" in the AGI sense a computer, no matter how efficient at what it does, if his goals and motivs are not convincingly bio-like.<br>
<br>If he or she is not bound to (behave as if he) be sexually attracted by you, there is little point in having one around just as a sex toy when your chances are just the same with a fellow human being. Or perhaps better... :-)<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>