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Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

If the robots look like Number 6 (Tricia Helfer) from Battlestar Galactica, then hell yeah I'm on board!
 
wordmunger said:
Here's what I wrote about this on CogDaily yesterday:

The idea of a human falling in love with a creation made of steel and silicon seems rather far-fetched today​
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Why not? MR members fall in love with creations made of aluminium and silicon quite regularly!

I wonder if they would have bionic children???

Maybe the robots will marry each other. "What would you like for dinner tonight, dear?"
"Chips!"
 
I like how the researcher said ti will probably first be legalized in Massachusetts and gives MIT a reason.
All work and no play made all the robotic scientists so dull that they could only get laid by non-human inventions.:rolleyes:
 
Before robot marriages could even be considered, robots would have to be recognized as sentient beings and citizens. I'd say that it's likely that that's a bit more than 40+ years away. The advances in AI have been slow, to say the least. At this point, we're hard put to have a computer that can understand human speech. Sure, we have speech to text interpreters, but where is the natural spoken control interface? When we have computers that we can say "Oh, say, computer, I need you to burn a set of CDs of all of the project files that I've been working on that are associated with project Vilmos. Can you do that then call me on my cell phone to let me know? I'm going out to lunch now. Thanks." to and they can understand and respond appropriately, then we'll be a step closer to the idea of real AI. Until then (and likely a ways after then, even), robots that are sophisticated enough to consider marrying are in the same category as all those flying cars they told us about in the 1950s that everyone was supposed to have by 1990.
 
Snowy_River said:
Before robot marriages could even be considered, robots would have to be recognized as sentient beings and citizens. I'd say that it's likely that that's a bit more than 40+ years away. The advances in AI have been slow, to say the least. At this point, we're hard put to have a computer that can understand human speech. Sure, we have speech to text interpreters, but where is the natural spoken control interface? When we have computers that we can say "Oh, say, computer, I need you to burn a set of CDs of all of the project files that I've been working on that are associated with project Vilmos. Can you do that then call me on my cell phone to let me know? I'm going out to lunch now. Thanks." to and they can understand and respond appropriately, then we'll be a step closer to the idea of real AI. Until then (and likely a ways after then, even), robots that are sophisticated enough to consider marrying are in the same category as all those flying cars they told us about in the 1950s that everyone was supposed to have by 1990.
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nice post :)

and i agree. looking forward to the time robots can do that...;)
 
how did this post manage to go all the way through without anyone ever mentioning the book and movie "Bicentennial Man"

that was set over a few lifetimes, and look how that turned out. Maybe not as quick as 2050 since we don't have droids that started the movie quite yet, but that's a freakishly semi-possible timeline there.

I'll bet on 2150.
 
I can understand the sex part, but marriage? Why?? :confused:

I hope they all won't be chrome! Looks like a Harley with two legs. :eek:
 

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It seems to me that this guy is anti gay, and is pissed that Mass was the first to legalize same sex marrige and now is teasing them for doing so. :rolleyes:
 
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