Poll: Love-bots the end of humanity or just another fancy gizmo?

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iblis666

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Say its 100 years in the future and they just perfected the perfect companion bot, would you say that in so doing that it would be the end of humanity as we know it since every one would have one or would life go on basically normal?
 

Hazy

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Is it wrong to feel slightly awkward answering this?

OT: Nothing will replace humans to the point where it becomes the norm for machines.
Unless SkyNet ever comes along..
 

Neonbob

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End of humanity. Because some wiseass hacker would screw with the programming so that instead of pleasuring you, the bot would horribly kill you.

After about twenty such deaths, humans would no longer be able to discern who was human and who was a sex bot, and be unwilling to risk such a violent end.

Obviously, this is only for the perfect sexbot, which would be an incredibly convincing human analogue.
 

m_jim

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When I read this, all I could see was flashes of the movie Blade Runner going through my mind. I'll go with xmetatr0nx and say that a robot =/= a real woman. No matter how sophisticated the AI, while you were...utilizing the robot, you would know in the back of your mind that it is indeed "artificial."

Edit: The question that you are asking isn't a yes or no question. You should definitely change your poll options to avoid confusion if you were actually hoping to get some results.
 

tehweave

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xmetatr0nx said:
No bot can ever replace a real woman.
And... We're done.

In all seriousness, love bots wouldn't provide what a real relationship does: conflict.

Hear me out... The true reason people stay together is if they find a way to deal with each others problems, and because they want to stay in a relationship. Conflict creates stress and negativity and mannerisms that both sides hate, but without it, life would be boring.

A love bot would only love you 100% and offer no problems. BORING. I want someone who will question my motives and cause some (SOME being the key word) conflict otherwise it will get dull very quick.
 

iblis666

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m_jim said:
When I read this, all I could see was flashes of the movie Blade Runner going through my mind. I'll go with xmetatr0nx and say that a robot =/= a real woman. No matter how sophisticated the AI, while you were...utilizing the robot, you would know in the back of your mind that it is indeed "artificial."
if you liked her personality after a while would it matter any more? not to mention if you think about it we humans are a people of extremes we never seem to settle for a middle ground and as such if we accept such companion bots i could very well see them being used every where maybe to the point that there are more of them then us. Even if these bots were designed to be able to give birth would not this still be the end of humanity as we know it and the rise of if not the machine at least the cyborg or android?
 

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xxhazyshadowsxx said:
Is it wrong to feel slightly awkward answering this?

OT: Nothing will replace humans to the point where it becomes the norm for machines.
Unless SkyNet ever comes along..
Basically this.
I'm so sad, I couldn't find the Futurama video about loving another robot. =[
 

WaffleTron

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http://www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Dont-Date-Robots

I believe this sums up everything.
 

m_jim

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iblis666 said:
m_jim said:
When I read this, all I could see was flashes of the movie Blade Runner going through my mind. I'll go with xmetatr0nx and say that a robot =/= a real woman. No matter how sophisticated the AI, while you were...utilizing the robot, you would know in the back of your mind that it is indeed "artificial."
if you liked her personality after a while would it matter any more? not to mention if you think about it we humans are a people of extremes we never seem to settle for a middle ground and as such if we accept such companion bots i could very well see them being used every where maybe to the point that there are more of them then us. Even if these bots were designed to be able to give birth would not this still be the end of humanity as we know it and the rise of if not the machine at least the cyborg or android?
Wat? This is the craziest thing I have read all day. You don't understand how genetics works, do you?
Setting that aside, robots do not have a personality. They can have randomized reactions that are generated by an AI, but that is the voice of the programmer who designed the robot, not the robot itself.
 

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Well then love bots eh? Umm I cant see how this could be the end of human kind within theatrical possibility. Only very strange and entirely creepy ones.
 

iblis666

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m_jim said:
iblis666 said:
m_jim said:
When I read this, all I could see was flashes of the movie Blade Runner going through my mind. I'll go with xmetatr0nx and say that a robot =/= a real woman. No matter how sophisticated the AI, while you were...utilizing the robot, you would know in the back of your mind that it is indeed "artificial."
if you liked her personality after a while would it matter any more? not to mention if you think about it we humans are a people of extremes we never seem to settle for a middle ground and as such if we accept such companion bots i could very well see them being used every where maybe to the point that there are more of them then us. Even if these bots were designed to be able to give birth would not this still be the end of humanity as we know it and the rise of if not the machine at least the cyborg or android?
Wat? This is the craziest thing I have read all day. You don't understand how genetics works, do you?
Setting that aside, robots do not have a personality. They can have randomized reactions that are generated by an AI, but that is the voice of the programmer who designed the robot, not the robot itself.
i think you misunderstood im referring to the rise of the companion bot since more than likely they would after a few years outnumber the human population not her offspring which would most likely be human unless instead of a human reproductive system she had a small cloning pod that would recombined the semen into usable dna, clone a child, and then give it cybernetic implants even a partial cybernetic brain.

As for robots not having personalities in 100 years they might and technically speaking we are really just biological machines who is to say that machines in the future might and if this is a soul argument how do you know you have one and who is to say that if a machine is advanced enough they cant have one?
 

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xmetatr0nx said:
No bot can ever replace a real woman.
This. I prefer a living being as opposed to a machine. Even if "companion bots" ever existed, who will honestly forsake a human being for a synthetic humanoid piece of hardware?
 

Sewblon

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To be "perfect" companion bots would have to be sentient in which case they would be inclined to mate with other sentient robots, so they will not end humanity.
 

PurpleRain

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Love-bots the end of humanity or just another fancy gizmo? Yes/No. The poll doesn't make sense! On that note, why is there a poll when not needed in this discussion?!