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Your father was a computer ...

Could humans and robots fall in love and procreate? Someone thinks so.

David Levy, originally from London, has made the controversial forecasts about the future of human-robot relationships in his Ph.D thesis.

In "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners", he argues that current trends in robotics and artificial intelligence mean the leap to humans and robots forming relationships is not far away.

Mr Levy, also an International Master in chess, believes robots will soon appear so like humans in the way they look and act, in their personality and how they express emotions, that many people will fall in love with them.

One would hope, at least, that the offspring would be better put together than this guy.

(Actually, it seems that growing an ear on the arm might have purposes for plastic surgery. The guy in Australia is just being weird. Or should I say artistic?)

offbeat news.

Posted by SoccerDad at October 12, 2007 2:53 PM