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A new thesis, entitled "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners", speculates that robots will come to be accepted as suitable marriage partners.
David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher, wrote the thesis. Levy based his investigations on 450 publications from various fields, including, psychology, sexology, sociology and robotics. His research is based on identifying certain trends that he feels will inevitably continue into the future.
The trends he identifies are based on human affection for virtual pets, such as the Tamagotchi, along with an increase in liberal attitudes towards sex. The research examines why people fall in love and why they have sex. According to Levy, the reasons for falling in love and having sex will be equally applicable to human and robot relationships in the future as they are to human relationships today.
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David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher, wrote the thesis. Levy based his investigations on 450 publications from various fields, including, psychology, sexology, sociology and robotics. His research is based on identifying certain trends that he feels will inevitably continue into the future.
The trends he identifies are based on human affection for virtual pets, such as the Tamagotchi, along with an increase in liberal attitudes towards sex. The research examines why people fall in love and why they have sex. According to Levy, the reasons for falling in love and having sex will be equally applicable to human and robot relationships in the future as they are to human relationships today.
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