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- Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -4/+66Finally i can get my own Hookerbot3000.. Now the real question is, does it do dishes?
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -11/+63Worthless without pics.
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43> “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years”.
Anybody who's seen the Paris Hilton video knows that this day has come already. - Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41Every time man creates a new technology, he says "can I use it for a Bomb or for sex?"
- foxsynergy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42Vacuum cleaners suck.
- Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Nope. I believe the model you're referring to is called the Wifebot3000.
- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -4/+38"My guess is that we will have conscious machines before 2020, said Ian Pearson, futurologist-in-residence at BT. If we put that in a robot, it's an android. That is an enormous ethical change."
Great article. It's almost an evolutionary event to see the scientific community actively pursuing HOW they will/will not use technology ~before~ it is developed. All too often we don't begin to ask the expansive questions of how best to approach innovation until after we screw it up.
The consciousness issue is clearly the most important issue as, eventually, this technological procreation of robotics will eventually result in a 'singularity' event where humanity will have to treat what it has created with a status befitting a being (as opposed to a thing). While THAT will be a huge hurdle, defining what type of being androids would be classified as will be an equally daunting hurdle (as we have failed miserably in this regard with respect to human beings).
Devices to Robots --> Robots to human-like robots --> Human-like robots to Androids --> Androids to servants --> Servants to companions --> Companions to equals --> equals to Superior android beings --> Superior andorid beings to master planetary lifeform --> Master Android life-forms to inferior human species --> Inferior human species to vermin human species?
Are we really ready for this robotic calculus? - DougTanner, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Hey, I've been having sex with my vacum cleaner for YEARS. These guys are so behind the times.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31If you get tired of that model you can try for a limited time the Mistressbot3000.
- Mufflegrump, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Okay, once I get turned down by a blowup doll I'm gonna go ahead and just bow out of this whole 'sex' thing :)
- JesperL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Tom Jones was onto something with the song "Sex Bomb", then. Combining the two main needs of mankind!
- foxsynergy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I know this is nitpicky, but "Hardwired", renamed at the last minute, has pretty much nothing to do with "I, Robot".
And is the sex thing releated to morality, which isn't supposed to be legislated? Or is it in the interest of safety? Because we can just slap a sign like this on each of those beauties.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/foxsynergy/funny/safetyft.png - blamblamblam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18One of humanity's biggest problems has always been that there just aren't enough sexy people to go round. And even if you do manage to get one, pretty soon you get bored or they stop being sexy .
One ancient solution to this problem is course the oldest profession: prostitution. But as dreary sexual moralists have pointed out, this solution has lots of downsides (disease, wasted lives, etc).
Now at last technology is about to come up with a much better solution to the sexy-person-shortage: sex robots. But what do the sexual moralists do? Just start complaining about that too. They're jealous, of course, because no-one ever complained about a shortage of sexual moralists.
But how will we know we're progressing in this field?
Turing came up with the Turing Test - to rate AI by its ability to hold a conversation you couldn't distinguish from human conversation.
I suggest we need a similar test for sex robots - and the prize would go to the robot able to have sex which is indistinguishable from sex with a human.
But what to call it? It should still honour Turing, who was of course hounded to suicide by the dreary sexual moralists of his day, but the "Turing Test" is taken. How about the "Scr-uring Test"? - SlappyMc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17dont they already hav sex with machines?
- electromagnetic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I think getting "not until you clean up the kitchen, it wasn't that messy when I left for work this morning!" from a robot whose work is primarily for cleaning I can only say this is a terrifying prospect.
Or perhaps, "how come you don't look at me like you do all those other girls?" or "how come you don't take me out anywhere nice?" I think we can all do without a several hundred pound bunny boiler after us! - chadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11like robot hell in Futurama?
- gwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I always thought Asimov's laws were unrealistic, given that the first user of robots would obviously be the military.
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15You missed an important part of that chain:
The Cylons were created by Man.
Man ***** the Cylons.
They Rebelled.
They Evolved. - The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"You're vacuum cleaner is a robot?"
Roomba is.
Got some nice curves as well. - ViceVirtue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Wifebot3000 does dishes but she's nothing like Hookerbot3000 when it comes to "Hoover mode"
- snapcase, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Now everyone will be able to live out those Chobits fantasies.
- Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This has been an active discussion for more than a century due to the nature of robotics.
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8We have bots on the net that can pass the turing test and people who can't.
- Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Truth, give him credit. It's a whole industry already.
- foxsynergy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Or Cherry 2000. Wow, what a non-great movie.
- einfeldt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In fact, 130 years ago, it was common for women to go to their family physicians for treatment of a condition then known as "hysteria", which was actually nothing more than a case of intense sexual desire. That was during the Victoria Era, when sex was very, very repressed. Women went in droves to their physicians, who stimulated them to orgasm for "treatment" of the "condition." This practice was so common that physicians themselves were suffering from what we today call "RSI" (repetitive stress injury). The physicians were getting terrible cases of RSI, and so one physician built a mechanical dildo for doctors to use for vaginal thrusting, thereby relieving the doctors of having to do nothing more than clitoral stimulation, if they even did that.
You think I'm joking? Check this wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria - neko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11 Aidenag : You mean you haven't seen the video "Electro Gonhorrhea: The Noisy Killer" ?!?!
- OmegaNine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8We already are, just about every girl in America has a vibrator
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Let's hope Apple doesn't make them, or they will burn your dick off.
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Whats the diff between robot sex and masturbation?
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Oh, dear. She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot. Well, that's love for you."
- lmushl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You honestly think that (solely in the name of science of course) they should or WILL stop at robosex that's indistinguishable from human sex?
Why not better? - hollowmedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This would be excellent. Women are going to be forced into being helpful, polite, and ready for sex at any given moment, else they could be replaced by a sophisticated replica that you can fully control.
"Not tonight honey, I have a headache."
"Funny, Wifebot3000 never has a headache."
"Would you me to be on top this time, sweetheart?" - aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great! I only have to wait 5 years to have sex again. And this time without the backtalk.
- 3v0lution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They mention the internet, to the extent on HOW we depend on technology!, hence, on the probability that we are going to depend on robots, like we do on the internet! DUH!
- ronintetsuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's what I was thinking. There's plenty of sex-with-blenders and non-descript black boxes going on out there.
So I've heard. - Ibox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5flippin wonderful
- mvnicosia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Best android movie...Blade Runner. Everyone should watch it. And who wouldn't want to do an android that looks like Sean Young. My two cents...
- einfeldt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hi,
Yes, sex with machines has been happening for a long time now. Regina Lynn writes about this type of topic in Wired.com. You can find out more about Regina Lynn here in this interview I did with her:
http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/index.php?m=show&id=6659
Here is her website:
http://www.reginalynn.com
Here is a website dedicated only to sex with machines. Please don't go here unless you want to see images of graphic x-rated sex, because this is a link to an adult sex, with images of such sex on the top of the first page:
http://www.*****.com/updates/full0.php
So we are long past the question of humans having sex with machines. - bdwoolman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Lots of bots on the net. Even some you can chat with.
- rushiku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Obligatory reference to the cautionary tale that is "Futurama - I Dated a Robot".
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6dont forget to be careful of electro-gonorrea, the noisy killer
- electromagnetic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I would recommend the book How To Survive A Robot Uprising ( http://www.robotuprising.com/ ). I must say it misses out the one key feature for destroying robots - FIRE! Imagine the heat dump that a robot brain would have to do if it was at a human sentient level, if you firebomb it then it can't dump the heat and it's CPU will blow up (a la http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054&q=CPU+explode )
- lazyguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Think about the internet?
The internet isnt a goddamn robot, its other people - celchu33, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The Cylons were created by Man.
They Rebelled.
They Evolved. - redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Most women don't move during sex anyway.
- lildrummerboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The exploring of ones own sexuality is not to be judged by another being, whether they are mortal or not.
- Tobor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If they are controlled by humans with joysticks, then they aren't robots. A robot has to have independent programming and make it's own decisions based on data it is recieving. This is why the show "Robot Wars" should be called "Remote Controlled Vehicle Wars". True robotic military units should scare the hell out of any sane person.
- Supergeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm sure at least some of you have heard of Real Doll (www.realdoll.com) For around $5,000 you can get a sex doll that looks pretty realistic.
People are already having sex with things that don't move or speak; as soon as some kind of realistic motions and sounds are added, the number of people who use sex toys is just going to increase.
When it's easy to tell what's human and what's robot, it's just masturbation. When technology gets to the point where you can't tell the difference, what is it then? - TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Jamie you're acting like a bigot and your ID can be considered Spam (wait a minute it IS spam!).
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