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posted by janrinok on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-talk-no-action dept.

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...


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @03:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @03:12AM (#445947)

    As we can see, ethicists and feminists have pushed past evangelicals to get to the front of the line to decry sex bots.

    The situation could get dicier when a couple of major milestones have been met: 1. the sex bots become cheap and good enough to have mass appeal. They don't have to be too cheap, but insert joke about renting one here. "Good enough" covers many aspects, from the artificial mouth/pussy/penis being consistently better than any human as well as customizable, to getting out of the uncanny valley. They should have superhuman squeezing/manipulation, tongue movement, and vacuum-like suckage. They should neither be too similar nor too distinct from feeling and working like an actual human, using wet fleshiness where appropriate but with ribbing or others "features" where none existed. Pushing realism of appearance even further should help the sex bot get out of the uncanny valley.

    2. A sex bot includes sentience instead of fake cloud AI. Sentient AI will be seen as a bigger threat, ethicists will say that these newer sex bots are exploitative, and evangelicals will find multiple avenues of attack. It's idolatry, it's man creating life without God, it will wreck the foundations of marriage and society even worse than the advanced masturbation aid sex bots did.

    People will be killed over this.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday December 26 2016, @07:14PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday December 26 2016, @07:14PM (#446122) Journal

    So you don't think creating a sentient being and condemning it to a life of sex slavery is, at the very least, unethical?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @11:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @11:33PM (#446190)

      Unethical, but potentially very sexy.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:59AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:59AM (#446208) Journal

        You've never worked with abuse or human-trafficking cases, have you? There is NOTHING even remotely "sexy" about this. Stop thinking with your idiot cock and start using the big head.

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...