SIGN of the TIMES:Hardwired for love: Are robots the sex partners of the future?

Love and lust in the 23rd century?Not at all, says David Levy, a PhD in gender studies and artificial intelligence and author of "Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations".By mid-century, predicts the 62-year-old expert, a superstud sexbot will become an accepted part of the human landscape.People may even fall in love with them,he adds. "Already today, the best quality synthetic voices cannot be distinguished from human voices," Levy told AFP, adding that some artificial skins now rival the smoothest of baby bottoms.Last November, researchers at Waseda University in Japan unveiled a robot, named Twendy-One, that can cook, talk, obey verbal commands, and use its soft silicon-wrapped hands-each equipped with 241 pressure sensors-to interact with humans.Even so, it will be a long time, Levy acknowledges, before we cannot tell the difference between human and humanoid."I don't think we will have convincing 'human-like' robots" within that time frame," said Frederic Kaplan, a researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland.Kaplan, who pushed the envelope of robot intelligence in programming the brain of Sony's eerily adorable robot dog Aibo, also wonders whether we even want robots made in our own image."Human-machine interactions will be interesting in their own right, not as 'simulation' of human relations," he said.But Levy is convinced the demand is there, and that market forces will provide the financial drive to overcome any technical-or psychological-obstacles..."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080212144453.spddtsz8&show_article=1
PS:This is disgusting but is where our "sick culture" is headed....
As in the days of Noah....