Would you have sex with a robot? Would you marry one? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union?
These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it. It has proved controversial, not only to countries with conservative views.
There were no representatives from the sex industry in attendance and no sex robots on display, leading some to question the point of the event.
RealDolls, a Californian-based firm that makes lifelike sex toys, claimed that it would release an artificial intelligence-enhanced sex doll next year. The launch, if it happens, will be vindication for Dr David Levy, who has long predicted the era of intelligent human-looking robots.
A story for those hoping to find a Fully Integrated Security Technotronic Officer under the tree Christmas morning...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @06:07PM
All the blackmail material available on normal people as well as politcally/socially/economically sensitive ones who don't realize that 'IoSD' (Internet of Sex Dolls) interaction provides a huge stockpile of sensitive dialogue and audio for others to pilfer for future blackmail material when you're a 'somebody' or they need leverage to get a new policy pushed through.
The dangerous of pervasive surveillance are becoming more real with each passing day...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @07:11PM
Surveillance? What kind of surveillance information would some one get from a sex doll? How many times a person gets his rocks off? No one but social conservatives will give a rats ass about how many times a politician polishes his pole. I personally would not want to know. The best way to look at this situation is that they have effectively removed themselves from the gene pool. Congrats!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:27PM
And those are the exact people running the US now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @06:38AM
Weiner!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @06:18PM
I'm just going to practice cyber-bondage with my robot-waifu and lock her inside the firewall.