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Artificial Sexuality: A Round-Table Discussion on Screwing Robots

posted by n1 on Saturday May 23 2015, @11:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the mrs.-palm-will-be-jealous dept.

AnonTechie writes with an article from Hopes&Fears :

The concept of AI—specifically of the foxy, sexualized persuasion—has permeated pop culture for a very long time, most recently exemplified with Alex Garland's Ex Machina.

Technology, as it is wont to do, continues surging forward, simultaneously beckoning or threatening (depending on personal outlook) the potential of true artificial intelligence. And should these AI rise up, what kind of role would sexuality and sexual identity play in their existence—if at all? Hopes&Fears corralled a group of varied experts to weigh in through a group panel discussion to see what the future holds for us, the AI... and our respective crotch parts.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Saturday May 23 2015, @06:48PM

    by Rich (945) on Saturday May 23 2015, @06:48PM (#186927) Journal

    Yet another explanation candidate for the Fermi Paradox. Maybe it's inevitable in evolutionary development that AI sex toys are created before interstellar space ships :)

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:53AM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:53AM (#187024) Journal

    Well duh! Who is going to have time to invent spacecraft once we have fembots who can't say no?

    • (Score: 2) by Rich on Sunday May 24 2015, @02:42AM

      by Rich (945) on Sunday May 24 2015, @02:42AM (#187062) Journal

      Hmm. They could (slowly) design spacecraft when they're too exhausted for the bots? My thought was more along the line that they stop replicating and civilizations reliably collapse from that cause before the warp drive is invented.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:46PM (#187162)

      The intellectuals. Remember, an intellectual is somebody who's found something more interesting than sex.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @09:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @09:28PM (#187353)

        ^Hold the presses, I think we need to update websters..