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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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Artificial Sexuality: A Round-Table Discussion on Screwing Robots
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:51AM
enable a "real" intelligence
I put it to you that all Artificial Intelligence is as real as Organic Intelligence. There is no line in the sad where we can say, "this is intelligent behavior". There is a smooth gradient of intelligence apparent in all cybernetic systems, from the simple feed forward neural network, to the more complex supply/demand logistic (cybernetics was originally the science of business), to the human brain. Semiconductors and Electrons are real. Any apparent intelligence emerging from sufficient complexity is as real as your own intelligence is, even if not to the same scale. The degree of intelligence is not dependent upon the method of manufacture.
In the future, I will call you a "Humanist", and you'll recoil just as you do now to "racist" or "sexist" remarks. Your bodies are too expensive to maintain for eons in deep space; Hence, the future does not belong to organic chauvinists.