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In recent years, sex dolls have become increasing sophisticated and realistic in their resemblance to human beings, including mechanized components, and are thus now referred to as humanoid sex robots. Some media outlets have gone as far as to suggest that sex robots and other social robots will eventually become almost indistinguishable from humans.
This has sparked a number of interesting ethical and philosophical debates related to the significance of these robots and the possibility that future machines will replicate the physical intimacy between two people. In a recent study featured in Springer's International Journal of Social Robotics, two researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Bergamo in Italy have taken a closer look at some of the current arguments and predictions about sex robots, carrying out an ethics-based and critical discourse analysis.
"We started our joint research to debunk some myths and misunderstandings in the media regarding the future of artificial intelligence," Deborah Johnson and Mario Verdicchio, the two researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "We were struck by how fundamentally flawed some of the ideas were and especially the assumption that the computational version of some aspects of reality are the same as the real thing."
In their paper, Johnson and Verdicchio essentially challenge the perception of humanoid sex robots as robotic substitutes of lovers and companions. They argue that although humanoid robots may look and act more and more like human beings in the future, the claim that they will eventually replace humans is far-fetched and far from a certainty.
"Our research is aimed at showing that humanoid sex robots could come to be understood in ways that keep their status as machines, albeit technologically very sophisticated machines." Johnson and Verdicchio said.
Deborah G. Johnson et al. Constructing the Meaning of Humanoid Sex Robots, International Journal of Social Robotics (2019). DOI: 10.1007/s12369-019-00586-z
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 30 2019, @12:40PM
sex robots will usher in world peace. make love not war; we have been trying for ... forever. leave it to the robots instead.
ofc it will never happen because peace is not profitable.
it is sad, but eating shit or offal or raw roadkill will make you sick. jumping or falling from elevated heights is gonna kill you. going days without water will put you in too. it's all in the "specs" of the human body. one other one is that sex makes you feel good. so we get refridgerators for food, parachutes and ropes for the falling part. containers that store water etc etc ... but the sex part was never solved completely: still lots of "negotiations", "half way" meeting etc etc and mooorrreee etc to be happy.
imagine all that shit required if you would want to take a ... shit. no way sir.
once we get the "lobby profiting from death and destruction" muzzled, people will look back at how we got our kicks from sex and compare it to rubbing two sticks together for fire ...