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If a man who calls himself Zoltan is to be believed, the future of sex is already here.
Zoltan is a 33-year-old man who may be the world’s first “technosexual.” He has created a robot woman that he is currently in a “relationship” with.
Yes, that does mean he has sex with it.
Tech blog Gizmodo.com recently included an interview with Zoltan to understand what makes the man tick.
In it, Zoltan reveals how he created his “girlfriend” by designing a body and then utilizing an artificial intelligence program called “Alice” that had been floating around the Internet for a while.
Alice was created as an attempt to pass the so-called “Turing test,” a test to see whether humans could be convinced they are speaking to a human rather than a computer.
Alice has a set number of words and phrases that she understands. Alice somewhat has the ability to learn, allowing her vocabulary to grow based on the conversations she has.
Because Alice’s responses can grow and change, it provides the chance for Zoltan to develop a relationship with the machine.
In fact, at one point Alice dumped him. A wipe of her memory solved that problem.
The idea of someone “dating” a robot is a disturbing one. While I’m sure many people would love to be able to reset a damaged relationship, life isn’t that easy. As “Futurama” once illustrated, human-robot romances are detrimental to society itself.
If this is the future, I’m not sure I want to be part of it.
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