The University of Maastricht in the Netherlands is awarding a doctorate to a researcher who wrote a paper on marriages between humans and robots. It will happen. Let the robo-nagging begin.
breitbart reports that David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher at the college, wrote in his thesis, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners," that trends in robotics as well as shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners.
I have also seen this trend, so I agree with him. But Levy knows far more than I. His conclusion was based on about 450 publications in many fields. Fields like psychology, sexology, sociology, robotics, materials science, artificial intelligence, gender studies and computer-human interaction.
The thesis examines human attitudes toward things like affection, love and sexuality. He concluded that the findings are just as applicable to human interaction with robots of the future as they are to the relationships between humans of today.
And why not? Some people act as if they are married to their pets. You know, the ones where it borders on the unhealthy. It is only natural, to embrace our creations in such a way. Especially when you consider the kind of intelligence that they will have as well as fooling our senses into believing that they could be alive, because the technology will be so good.
I'm a robot. Who will be my new wife?
