Fembots are potentially one of the greatest successes in future human history. Imagine it, for nerds it will provide the opportunity to converse with a girl-simulation before trying out conversation starters in the real world.
Commonly, amongst the masses, the perception of the android has been shaped by HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it is my firm belief that the masses have misinterpreted it, HAL wasn't evil, he was designed to carry out his program, perhaps his programmers were evil but he was just a computer, he could only obey his programming.
To a certain extent, HAL 9000 is a creature to be sympathised with, he couldn't do anything but obey his programming and was destroyed for it.
Now since the heady days of 1969, technology has progressed to allow conversations between humans and robots on an almost equal level. What made me personally excited was Aiko at the end of last year. It was a new fembot designed to perform all sorts of civic duties that, due to Japan's aging population, it is simply unrealistic to expect the young to carry the burden. 'She' can carry out simple tasks such as information distribution, calculations and physical movement. This can only be a good thing, we're now well coming to the stage of human imitation where it appears to be nothing but a grotesque impression of a person, or the 'Uncanny Valley' as coined by Masahiro Mori in 1970. The next few years will be important for the industry as they try to either completely leap the valley, or quickly pass through it while losing as few investors as possible. It will be difficult.
Anyway, the fembot could solve many of humanity's problems, now this is a legal and moral grey area, but a lot of the current problems with prostitution could be solved instantly. Perhaps it would even become socially acceptable to do such things, I can't predict the future. Nerds wouldn't have to be concerned with their poor social skills, they could build their own. Of course there are those that say that fembots aren't able to surprise you like a real human female can (And at the current time I have to admit I agree with them, a fembot is limited by its programming, and eventually a person will realise its response to everything)
Despite that, I am a Geek who loves fembots, maybe that's why I joined the KCL robotics society and no girl will look at me....
Will I dream?
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