Love and Sex With Robots Are Inevitable
“It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t: Love and sex with robots are inevitable”
David Levy
if you could invent a robot that washes your dish, why could people not invent a robot that would be a great husband, wife or even a perfect bedmate?
In the book “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” David Levy (researcher) says that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. It sounds ridiculous: intelligent robot with our physical dexterity, with attractive face and human skin. How and when can it happen?
“I think these are reasonable questions,” - Levy said in a telephone interview from London – “But if one looks at the advances in technology in the last, say, 40 or 50 years, they’ve been immense, and the more we learn about the science and the technology, the quicker it will be to discover even more within that science”
Levy points that in 21st century there have been recorded so many sad cases in building relationships between humans: “People so physically unattractive or anti-social or isolated or emotionally crippled that they have trouble finding human romance. Sometimes people even love their computers more than their fellows”.
“They’re lonely; they’re miserable,” Levy declare. “I think society will be a much better place when they have an alternative that satisfies them without doing any harm to other people.”
“Add in those who have a satisfying sexual relationship but are simply curious and somewhere between 20 percent and 50 percent of the population will experience man-machine mating at least occasionally” Levy predicts. He also noticed that robots for sex will solve the problems of prostitution and AIDS.
The idea of romance between humanity and mechanical creations is not a new one, it dates back even to ancient times. We can remember the world’s famous Greek myth about the sculptor Pygmalion, who fell in love with the very beautiful and attractive ivory statue he made, named Galatea, to which the goddess Venus finally granted life…
So, if you are younger that 30, you will probably test David Levy’s theory. Who knows may be by 2050 we’ll be really creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable and indiscernible from real people. And we’ll have relationship and sexual contacts with these “human” robots. May be some of us will even marry them. We will see…