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Human-Robot Love and Marriage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardly-miss-hoomans-at-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC has an article on the impending robo-human coupling: 'My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,' artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience."

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  1. DON'T DATE ROBOTS by katterjohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    This message brought to you by the Space Pope

    1. Re:DON'T DATE ROBOTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      A robot woman won't let you reprogram her until the third date.

  2. Don't Date Robots! by orkysoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god, he hasn't seen the video!

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    1. Re:Don't Date Robots! by lostsatellite82 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good this they only have Lucy Liu so far. The day they start making Natalie Portman, the world stops producing babies.

    2. Re:Don't Date Robots! by orkysoft · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, it would just prevent the Slashdot trolls from producing babies, which isn't much of a change at all.

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  3. Marriage Vows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All thy data i give to thee, to have and to store, from this day forward...

  4. Obligatory by Aranykai · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our new sexual-robotic overlords.

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  5. Re:This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I worked with one fellow who had his penis injured by a computer.

    Some of IBM's mid-range systems from the late 1980s (actually quite large, physically, by today's standards...) had a circular opening about 2 inches in diameter. This opening was near some circuitry or device that would heat up rather quickly. So with the help of some duct tape and foam, this hardware admin fashioned himself a warm vagina of sorts, right on the side of our IBM system.

    We're not sure how long he had a "relationship" with the system, but it came to an end one day when during lunch he ran over to a group of us, with his hands covered in blood. Apparently the foam vagina tore, and a piece of metal got him on the penis shaft. He went to the hospital, and was okay in the end. But he didn't really last long with the company after that...

  6. This was a triumph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm making a note here:
    HUGE SUCCESS!

    Remember, your companion cube will never stab you.

  7. Re:stupid by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not marry your lawnmower?

    YOU try sticking your dick in the lawnmower, THEN you'll know.

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  8. Obligatory Lucy LiuBot... by Whatsmynickname · · Score: 4, Funny

    Liubot: Oh, Fry, I love you more than the moon and the stars and the - poetic image number 37 not found

  9. Re:This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... by Man+of+E · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do you take this robot to be your lawfully welded husband? I do

    Fixed the typo for you.

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  10. Re:a sex robot with us already, disguised as a hor by dosius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shall we start an "XXX-Prize" then?

    *runs*

    -uso.

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  11. Re:stupid by CynicalTyler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not marry your lawnmower?

    YOU try sticking your dick in the lawnmower, THEN you'll know. Better a lawnmower than my ex-girlfriend.
  12. Re:The Bible is clear on this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    congratulations on having the sleaziest and most disturbing post on the board!
    You win...my pity!

  13. Futurama by OgreChow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, okay. But I don't want people thinkin' we're robosexuals

  14. Never Again... by Looshi · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...do I want to read a comment on Slashdot that starts with "I worked with one fellow who had his penis injured by a computer.".

  15. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. by Valdrax · · Score: 2, Funny
    Nearly ever single line in the opening paragraph sounds really wrong when read that way, but the king is:

    Aperture Science.
    We do what we must
    because we can. That gets my vote for both the most sinister corporate motto ever, as well as the most sinister thing I've heard a sociopathic computer say. As a bonus is sounds really naughty in this context.

    Well, it gives a whole new meaning to "Aperture Science," anyway.
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  16. Re:He Should Maybe Think About Amsterdam by cheater512 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new here.