"Billy Brown" <bbrown@conemsco.com> writes:
> > This would avoid all the emotional and physical complications of having
> sex
> > with people.
>
> Well, almost all. Considering how attached people can become to their pets,
> I don't think its much of a stretch to expect that most people will be quite
> fond of their sexbots. After all, they look human, they talk, and you have
> all sorts of fun together. A whole industry is likely to spring up to
> provide personality customization, smarter AI software, and so forth.
> Of course, this raises an important moral issue. Any reasonably functional
> sexbot is already going to be at least as smart as your cat. Once you start
> adding speech comprehension, personality software, domestic skills, and
> other cognitive functions you're getting uncomfortably close to having a
> real person - and different people will draw that line in different places.
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