Robot-Human Marriages Inevitable by 2050 says Levy

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Robot-Human Marriages Inevitable by 2050 says Levy

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Levy, a British researcher who recently earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, believes that by 2050, robots and humans will be able to marry legally in the United States. He predicts that Massachusetts will lead the way as it did in 2004, when it became the first state to allow same-sex marriages between humans. As robots become increasingly humanoid in appearance, Levy and other roboticists believe that people will begin to have sex with robots -- as soon as 2011, says at least one artificial intelligence theorist [source: Economist]. Physical attractiveness, coupled with the advances in robot programming that will allow human-like emotions and intellect in robots, could produce artificial mates that some humans will want to marry. In fact, Levy told one reporter, it's "inevitable"

Type: Prediction | Also: Technology, Social Issues, Robotics |

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1.	Let them be wed at the singularity church! http://www.plusultratech.com/2011/06/singularity-is-religion.html

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