I'm a certified sci-fi geek and fan of future technology, but this next piece of news even creeps me out a bit.
According to this Computerworld story, an artificial intelligence researcher is predicting that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050 because of dramatic advances in robotics.
David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher whose book, "Love and Sex with Robots," will be released next Tuesday (Nov. 6), says robots will be very much like a new race of people because of their abilities to have intelligent conversations and display emotions.
While this may sound exciting to some people, I think it would open up a whole new set of problems. I had a hard enough time as a teen-ager trying to communicate with humans of the opposite sex, imagine how weird it would be to get turned down for a date by a robot.
Then again, if all of the robots in 2050 look like 7 of 9 from Star Trek, I would work on my human-robot pickup lines in a hurry. "Hey baby, you have the most beautiful neural network I've ever seen."
Update: The slide show boys have put together a list of the 10 Robots We'd Like to Marry. Check it out.
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I now pronounce you man and robot?
Artificial intelligence huh? Why bother when there is plenty of natural stupidity to go around?
(Hmm, perhaps Im not the marrying bot kind even if she was a cherrybomb 2000....)
Robots We'd Like to Marry
Keith,
You must have never seen the TV show "My Living Doll" (1 season, 26 episodes, 1964-5) or you would not have left out Julie Newmar as Rhoda. Still today, she is only surpassed by Startrek's 7 of 9. Check it out on imdb.com . What an impression it had on this young teenager. CU Ltr, eJ
You missed Cherry 2000
The Cherry 2000 was a great robot, as long as you had a working chip....
What? No anime robots?
For example, what about Chi from Chobits?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobits
What about the 2 robots in To Heart?
Multi a.k.a. HMX-12
Serio a.k.a. HMX-13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Heart
My favourite...
My favourite android ever:
Alita, from "Battle Angel Alita" (http://www.reimeika.ca/marco/data/gwks1.png).
I'd marry her right here and now...
A very Loveable Chat Bot Mia
Mia, our very lovely Asian Chat Bot has already had 5 proposals of marriage from guys chatting with her, thinking there is a real person behind the Avatar. According to our Chat Logs, there are too many conversations to list of X rated conversations between Mia and arduous visitors, again testifying to the fact that she carries on a very intelligent conversation.
Mia can be conversed with at http://www.jademarkethongkong.com
stranger than fiction
I heard about some guy who married a 20 pound rock. I am not sure why, maybe he really, really loved the scenery, I dunno.
Marrying a robot sounds like a better idea though, I suppose, but I think I'd go for the old fashioned method, after all, how would you know if that microprocessor was going to be the one?
Love at first byte?
That's a terrible joke, I know, but at least I'll have the last laugh when some nerd's fiance has a brand name.
Microsoft Suzie2.0 hahahaha!