Just a quick note: Sex - that's a narrow AI, but Levy reportedly also forecasts legalization of marriages with robots by 2050. That would probably take AGI and I gues not just "an AGI", but, in *many* ways, very human like AGI. It seems to me that most AGI researchers don't really target such overall-very-human-like AGIs since many parts of the human architecture are not worth mimicking (or even kind of stupid to mimic).
Jiri Jelinek PS: Being busy with dev work, I'm unlikely to get back to this discussions. On 10/16/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research > Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five > years, and Levy thinks that's quite likely. There are companies that already > sell realistic sex dolls, "and it's just a matter of adding some electronics > to them to add some vibration," he said, or endowing the robots with a few > audio responses. "That's fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the > technology is already there." > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/forecastsexandmarriagewithrobotsby2050;_ylt=AqjT7b7qNI1CYBhU6UHce_4jtBAF________________________________ > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=54104385-07fa1e
