Giving a whole new meaning to the term “cyber sex”, artificial “OBVIOUSLY-HAS-NO” intelligence expert David Levy seems to think that by 2050 humans will be having sexual and emotional relationships with artificial life forms such as robots. “Robots are becoming more sophisticated”, he explains. “Technologies are being developed all the time, such as artificial skin, which will inevitably make robots much more human-like”. Levy argues that psychologists have taken into consideration a number of basic reasons why people fall in love, “and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships. For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that’s programmable too.” Ok, “love” is programmable so it seems, but whatever happened to the saying, “money can’t buy love?” If this technology is released into the mainstream, people with enough cash are going to be replacing their partners with celebrity look-a-like sex bots which are programmed to “love” them. Can you really call this love or is it just David Levy’s idea of a perfect partner? http://www.badoozie.com/2008/07/06/sex-with-a-robot.html