Loving (and Making Love to) Machines

By 2050, people will not only be having sex with robots, they'll also be attempting to marry them. So says scientist and author David Levy, who recently filed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands entitled, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners." Despite the brashness of his claims, Levy is no fresh-faced postdoctoral researcher. He has already published a book on artificial intelligence (Robots Unlimited) and his latest book, Love and Sex with Robots, which was adapted from his dissertation, is published on November 6th.