Posted on 10/21/2015 9:42:52 AM PDT by 100American
The idea for the conference was sparked when Cheok and Levy, two academics interested in robotics, met several years ago and realized they had goals in common. Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships, focuses on the brain, the software side, and the algorithms of humanoid robots. Cheok researches the hardware side from an engineering view, looking at multi-modal interfaces including communication by touch, taste, and smell. These areas of study, Cheok said, will be important in the future of robots. "A lot of the technology that's incubating in my lab will be integrated with robots in the future, especially with humanoid robots. I'm developing hardware that would be used in robots that will become our friends and lovers and even sexual partners."
Cheok and Levy began to collaborate. A few years ago, they held a small workshop on love and sex with robots in London as part of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour's annual meeting. It's the oldest AI society in the world. "We were surprised how many people were interested," Cheok said. "They came from Japan, Europe, USA—they were interested in technology, ethics, and more."
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Academia is a putrid mass...
Declared ILLEGAL?????
That’s ROBOPHOBIC!
What a bunch of ROBOPHOBES!
EQUALITY FOR ROBOSEXUALS!
nerds that can’t get a girlfriend.
Ping.
Ping.
Ah yes, the original Star Trek, all others pale in comparison IMO regardless of CG advancements. One of the funnier episodes too I might add. : P
Might as well talk about it. We know it’s going to happen, already is probably. Refusing to discuss its implications isn’t going to prevent it.
ROFL ROFL
Sick sick sick...
Academia is a putrid mass...
I don’t want to read the article, but out of curiosity, where was it declared illegal? I can’t imagine it being in the U.S. or most parts of Europe.
Muslim demand for little boy robots has not materialized. Seems they like the real thing.
Total dehumanization. It should be illegal to treat any human being as a Means to an End-—as we eliminated “slavery” as an evil.
But, as long as our “just laws” can promote vice-—we will get more vice-—children with minds full of mush and evil desires.
We need to put Virtue back into Justice (the Queen of virtue) and not allow the vile sodomites to flip Good and Evil in this culture-—which they have done through UNJUST (unconstitutional) Laws and systems/bureaucracies.
Founders/Montesquieu-—all just law has to promote “public virtue” (and ONLY Christian Virtue as understood in the 18th and 19th century).
Yo! Bendy!
You watchin this thread?
The Big Bang Theory episode with Wolowitz and the robotic hand comes to mind.
How much of a brain damaged loser do you have to be to yearn for ‘love and sex’ from a robot?
:: Muslim demand for little boy robots has not materialized ::
Nor Muslim demand for robotic goats...
The complaint came from Malaysia. It’s a sad day for America when Malaysia is smarter.
Talk about overengineering the solution, why not the age-old solution of a magazine and a hand?
Essentially sex with robots is simply a form of masturbation, not fundamentally different from a vibrator.
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