Could you love a robot

http://www.kurzweilai.net/russia-today-ai-researcher-says-people-will-fall-in-love-with-virtual-romantic-partners

creeepy

I have feelings for the Svedka Vodka robot already, so, yes

http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/.a/6a010535ce1cf6970c010536a22682970b-800wi

If ILX's experiences with the 'date Ariane' game are anything to go by, the answer to the thread question is 'no'.

Well in the future sex robots will probably allow you to walk in on them while they're taking a dump, it's just common sense

A core dump?

"I don't pay 'em for sex...I pay 'em to shut down afterwards"

"Is that an Arduino in your pocket, or are you pleased to see me?"

"Well in the future sex robots will probably allow you to walk in on them while they're taking a dump, it's just common sense"

I thought you said "allow you to walk ON them while their taking a dump"

Isn't there a rolling US elections thread here for discussing Mitt Romney?
*rimshot*

speaking as a robot, i find this thread shitty and insensitive. it's not easy, you know.

I was under the impression that the majority of posts here these days are composed by bots? The bulk of the real human interaction is mostly limited to the secret I Love Smelting sub-board

Haha, what a horribly formed "joke"!!

I chanced on some TV show about this topic recently and lol'd at the "experts" they rounded up to interview. had great subheaders like "robotic sex enthusiast"

Try GISing 'robert crumb sex robot' (NSFW results obviously)

The guys meet awkwardly, the searcher says, "Let's see it," or something creepy like that, and the West Virginian tinkerer takes him into a woodshed (I am not making this up) and shows him what half a million dollars and little American prurience and elbow grease can do. The cameraman shows us the writhing, sputtering doll, then quickly swings up to the searcher's face and we're totally sure that he's going to be disappointed because what he's looking at is a really weird, sad excuse for realism. Then, unexpectedly, he smiles. He says he's really happy about what he's seeing. One of the filmmakers asks tentatively, "Would you have sex with that robot?" And to our utter horror, the man, smiling even wider, answers, "Yes, I would definitely have sex with that robot."

No. No...I don't think. Probably not. It would be very, very wrong.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GPflPIApVJs/SxxcppMmzrI/AAAAAAAAEPU/T8wCRdxtZjE/s320/Katherine+Ross.jpg

people would probably not do R2D2 without some mods on his frame

the only thing needing "mods" is the attitude underlying retrograde comments such as that

with a well-placed kitchen stool you'd be good to go

something there is that doesn't love a robot

Down in Joe's Garage

http://i.imgur.com/kAcLZ.jpg

imagine the robo-chafe

People are capable of forming emotional attachment to other people, to pets, to cars, to collections of objects, to smells, to ideas, to deceased people, to doorframes, matchbooks, phrases -- iow, just about anything under the sun. Robots notwithstanding.

i love lamp

Enjoy boning Small Wonder, everyone

now you're just projecting

I will cop to needing to have that show on in the background during the act. i guess everybody has their quirks

*backs out of thread, closes door*

heh heh

http://m.gizmodo.com/5870529/the-sad-story-of-a-real-life-r2+d2-who-saved-countless-human-lives-and-died

But one day Scooby met his match. Maybe he'd gotten cocky, turned maverick. His ego writing checks his body couldn't cash. We'll never know. But Scooby Doo was killed in Iraq when an IED he was trying to defuse exploded.

Like Luke after R2-D2 saved the day on the Death Star's trench run, the veteran EOD unit member brought Scooby's body into the repair depot at Camp Victory and said "you've got to fix Scooby." The repair tech said that Scooby was beyond repair, but he could have a brand new robot. No, you don't under stand, this soldier insisted, Scooby Doo had be fixed. He did not want some damn new robot—he wanted Scooby Doo back. Scooby Doo was part of the team. He'd saved their lives. It was reported that this veteran soldier was visibly upset.

And this is not uncommon. EOD units have been known to promote their bots to titles such as Staff Sergeant, award them Purple Hearts, and even hold funerals for their fallen brothers in robotic arms. They assign them personalities, dispositions. Some have even taken their robots fishing with them and let them hold the pole. Regardless of whether you call that camaraderie or laziness, I would argue that it's bonding. It's not hard to see where Scooby Doo's team was coming from. If your dog had been critically injured, and you took him to the vet, and the vet said, "Sorry, can't fix him, but how's about a new dog?" you'd tell him to go procreate with himself, your friend is not so easily replaced.

those are really robots?

i thought they were more like RC cars

A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

but yeah, a lot of what they do is the execution of programming, not just response to remote control

thanks i know what a robot is

like what

if it was a robot it wouldn't need an operator right?

i mean a car motor with electronic fuel injection does a bunch of complex tasks automatically as a result of programming

Lover Robots

I think I would advise against becomeing too emotionally attached to a bomb-defusing robot. Call me cold but I just think it wiser not to.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8WV0TI5HorI/SfpeDl5c_kI/AAAAAAAAAEo/jemtBfzj_VM/s400/ashley_scott_jude_law_a.i._artificial_intlligence_001.jpg

In spite of Jude Law in A.I., which once made a very persuasive case for me, I think I am going to stick to the failures of human flesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOWYVT5xABA

like what

some of the robots used for bomb detection are self-directing. you just set them out and give them a GPS point B to arrive at, and they do the rest (navigation, bomb identification).

^ that to the late great's question upthread

If thre's no free will, we're essentially robots already

eh contenderizer that doesn't sound much like a robot to me unless you want to call a predator drone a robot, also the identifying part is kinda overstating the case

i mean my kettle can identify boiling water and a coinstar can identify a quarter, doesn't make it a robot

Yes, but can you're kettle defuse boiling water? I didn't think so.

RIP Scooby!

scooby can't defuse anything without a guy on the other end pushing a joystick around

No need to get scatalogical

i mean whatever, it's a picky pedant argument anyway, people give their cars and guns names and personalities so why not a not-robot i guess

eh contenderizer that doesn't sound much like a robot to me unless you want to call a predator drone a robot, also the identifying part is kinda overstating the case

cool, i think this is mostly a semantic difference. the term "robot" can be (and is) defined all sorts of different ways. i tend to use a very broad definition, which yeah, allows a lot of everyday machines to be classed as robots.

If intense trauma increases person-to-person attachment, it should increase any personal attachment

i could only love a tombot

How about a ro-butt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHo6CUq4-o

Im not sure I understand the robo-buttocks - is it for medical training or pleasure?

What part of "Buttocks Humanoid that Represents Emotions" do you not understand?

artificial buttock intelligence? alert Speilberg

When it crashes, do you have to re-booty?

ABI- the love3story of a robo ass and some renegade robogenitals

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/possible-degrade-exploit-home-sexbot-73592