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Strange love
Christian Century, April 8, 2008
STRANGE LOVE: David Levy, an artificial-intelligence researcher from London, thinks the rime is coming when humans will hook up with robots for love, sex and even marriage. "If the alternative is that you are lonely and sad and miserable, is it not better to find a robot that claims to love you and acts like it loves you?" he argues. Already a robot at Osaka University is able to fool people for about 10 seconds that it is a human when positioned a few feet away. "People who grow up with all sorts of electronic gizmos will find android robots to be fairly normal as friends, partners, lovers," says Levy. Whether it is emotionally healthy to fall in love with a robot is another matter, his critics reply (Scientific American, March).
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Canada United Kingdom United States
In the past month, 60% 73% 64%
have donated money
to a charitable organization:
In the past month, 39% 23% 44%
have volunteered time
to a charitable organization:
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