Robotics Reference
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Sex and Reproduction, AI Style
AI is like humans playing God, creating “life” where there was none.
-Anonymous Internet posting
Sex with Robots
The obvious question that arises whenever the subject of love with a
robot is discussed is “What about sex?” People, even many scientists, no
matter how receptive they might be to some of the predictions made in
this topic, will normally balk at the idea of a human having a physical
relationship with a machine, notwithstanding the Woody Allen character
in the 1973 movie
Sleeper
explaining that the reason he was looking so
happy was that he had just been in the orgasmatron. But in the opening
years of the twenty-first century that attitude is being updated. People
already find enjoyment in physical relationships with machines of various
types, as this posting on the Internet by Wes Johnson will testify (please
don't blush)
I'm still riding her, and plan to as long as my body holds out. When
you fall in love with a machine this good, it's an affair that lasts. I
wouldn'ttradeitforanything...[1]
This eulogy sounds slightly raunchy, but in fact what has stolen Wes
Johnson's heart is a motorcycle. His second sentence in full reads
I wouldn't trade it for anything on the road, including all the 200
mph Suzukis and $20,000 Harley's ever to lay rubber down. [1]
If Wes can fall in love with his bike, why should people not fall in love
with robots? In Wes's case the physical aspect of his love for his bike is
his riding of it, an experience not totally dissimilar to sex (as far as some
bikers are concerned).
Wes Johnson is not alone in enjoying a physical relationship with an
object. And people want enjoyable and interesting sexual experiences,
