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Paris, Feb 15 : “In the mood for a little skin-to-skin?” coos a lover slipping between the sheets.

“Not tonight,” mumbles the partner, turning around. “Just make it with the robot, if you want.”

A kinky sci-fi fantasy? Love and lust in the 23rd century? Not at all, says David Levy, a professor of gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of “Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations.”

By mid-century, predicts the 62-year-old expert, getting it on with an electronic femme-fatale or a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape.

“Think of it: great sex on tap, 24/7,” he said. People may even fall in love with their hard-wired sex slaves, he adds.

Not everyone embraces Levy’s vision of a future where humanoids guarantee satisfaction in bed along with pre-programmed post-coital conversation.

But many agree it is on the cards, given exponential leaps in computer power, progress in mimicking human muscles and movements, and headway in artificial intelligence (AI) software to replicate emotions and personality.

“Already today, the best quality synthetic voices cannot be distinguished from human voices,” Levy told AFP, adding that some artificial skins now rival the smoothest of baby bottoms.

Last November, researchers at Waseda University in Japan unveiled a robot, named Twendy-One, that can cook, talk, obey verbal commands, and use its soft silicon-wrapped hands — each equipped with 241 pressure sensors — to interact with humans.

Even so, it will be a long time, Levy acknowledges, before we cannot tell the difference between human and humanoid. The sexbot Gigolo Joe played by Jude Law in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film “Artificial Intelligence: AI,” providing chat and emotional support as well as sex, is at least 40 decades away, he thinks.
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9 responses // Do you want to have sex with robots?

  • I'm assuming, save some scientific breakthrough, that in 40 decades I'll be dead. Which is a shame, since I'd love to be around when people are taking robots to dinner...
    phillyharper
  • To quote professor Farnsworth from Futurama, "I knew I should have shown him the other film, electronic herpes the noisy killer."
    Varex_Sythe
  • the quote is in fact

    "Oh, dear, I should have shown him "Electrogonorrhea: the noisy killer" instead."
    rabidlemur
  • Makes me think of the song; "Imaginary Lover" from the Atlanta Rhythm Section that some of you were no doubt conceived by.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Will sexbots really enhance our lives. I mean think about all the trouble one goes through to attract someone. Yes there are those who better themselves just for the sake of bettering themselves, but I think mostly we develop our talents, ideas, physical appearances to give ourselves individuality in order to gain interest of certain people. I'm not saying it wouldn't be interesting to have a robot that could give you the best sex of your life every night, I just hope that we don't loose our individualities and the emotional connections that is involved in true love.
    saih86
  • The end of that article is the most telling of the answer to the question in the title.

    the answer is: no.
    stephenthomson
  • If they build it, someone will cum.
    sam03
  • haha! good one.
    stephenthomson
  • All I can say is that hopefully before the time we give rights to robots and AI (which I believe we will), we will have granted animals their long-due rights. Beings who co-evolved with us and feel the same love and pain as we do. Beings that deserve the same protection as any human, and certainly the same protection as any AI.
    Colonial_Zombie

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