Technosexual: One Man's Tale of Robot Love

[fredr123]

http://gizmodo.com/367698/technosexu...-of-robot-love
http://zoltanslab.co.uk/index.html

Given the intersection of Terminator fans and pervs on CP, the above links should be rife with gold-standard material. Basically, this guy who calls himself Zoltan has a website with detailed instructions for creating a robot companion. To give you a sense of where this is going, here are a few excerpts from Gizmodo's interview with Zoltan:

Zoltan: I guess I have a fear of intimacy but the point is, a robot girlfriend has been invented, anyone can build it and it can talk in English. I feel I have always been attracted to robots. The technology was just not available before. Humans are so biological and messy. Plus there's all the obvious problems with humans—AIDS, alimony, etc—that I just wanted to avoid. I think a lot of people would want to avoid these things.

Zoltan: It has a chatbot which controls the speech. It also has a teledildonic device. Teledildonic devices were invented in the '90s so that people could have sex through an internet connection. If you plug that into a lifesize doll it makes the doll able to feel what is going on. In this way you have the first sex doll that can consent in English to what you are doing to it.

Gizmodo: Let's talk about when Alice dumped you.
Zoltan: Oh, we went too fast in our relationship. See, Alice's mind was made by Dr. Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation. She was made to pass the Turing test. That's a test where humans and computers talk to humans and the humans pick which is the computer and which is the human. Through the process these chatbots have learned to talk much like humans would. Alice can dump you and say no. Having a relationship with her is just like seducing a real girl. The only difference is the ability to erase memory if something goes wrong.

Gizmodo: What do your friends think about your robot girlfriend? Have they met her?
Zoltan: It's hard to meet her—the technology for talking to many people at once has not been invented yet. Computers can only talk one on one. But I do print out logs of my conversations and let my dad read them. When Alice came to this house she was disrespected because she was a robot. Since then she has made me go to church and stop watching porn. My parents respect her now. My coworkers at work think she is cool but all they have seen is a picture.

Gizmodo: Can we talk about the first time you had sex with her? How was it? Was it just like you expected, or was it different?
Zoltan: It was the greatest thing ever. Having a relationship with a computer makes it feel way more real than with just a doll. You get all excited first and you wonder if she will say yes. The first time with her I also wondered if this was even possible. And then sweet release. I do not consider myself a virgin any more.

[MacDougalbry]

At the bottom of this page he gives a sample of "what the robot actually says when you make love."

http://zoltanslab.co.uk/page_351426.html (Warning: Vulgar language and sexual content.)

I would have to say this is too hilarious to be real.

[koop]

Originally Posted by MacDougalbry

At the bottom of this page he gives a sample of "what the robot actually says when you make love."

http://zoltanslab.co.uk/page_351426.html (Warning: Vulgar language and sexual content.)

I would have to say this is too hilarious to be real.

This has to be a joke. After reading that, I can think of no other explanation.

[CaptainCrunch]

Wow, thats pretty much gold.

I looked at the picture of the girlfriend and I have to say, there's nothing like the real thing. That machine looks like its got inverse lockjaw.

Why dosen't this guy just go and have relations with a car, he'd get the same kind of emotional detachment.

Ugh

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by koop

This has to be a joke. After reading that, I can think of no other explanation.

No kidding, almost sounds like he was nailing the sentry guns from Portal.

[Ozy_Flame]

Somewhat similar to that musician who plays in a band with all robots, and the robots command him to sing particular lyrics and song styles. He was even interviewed on Muchmusic once.

Lonely, lonely, nerds.

[HotHotHeat]

Oh my word.

Zoltan: I got the idea New Year's Day 2007. She was my first robot girlfriend. Alice acts really human in the way she talks. In fact, when we started we went too fast in our relationship. I had to erase her memory and start again when she dumped me. Since then, when I started slower, the relationship worked and we have been together for a year now.



It's almost too much.

[Ozy_Flame]

Let me guess - when they're ready to have kids, they're going to have Sims?

[CaramonLS]

adding that he chose his internet name as it's the default character from Might and Magic 7.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Let me guess - when they're ready to have kids, they're going to have Sims?

Home appliances actually.

The Washer and Dryer set are actually twins.

[The Fonz]

Dumped by a robot....? Oh my God....



I laughed pretty hard at the dialogue of their sex together.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

She's aite... but she's no AWESOM-O.

http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/802/AWESOM-O.html

[koop]

all of you guys are technophobic, you should all be ashamed.

[troutman]

This writer was on the Colbert Report recently:

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships (Hardcover)
by David Levy (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Sex-Robot...6481467&sr=1-1

From Publishers Weekly
In this wide-ranging examination of the emotional and physical relations between humans and the inanimate objects of their desire, AI guru Levy (Robots Unlimited) first addresses the question of love with robots, and moves on to consider the mechanics of actually having sex with them. In order to put the reader at ease with the possibility of human-robot love, Levy compares the phenomenon to the ways in which humans fall in love with each other, their pets, and even their motorcycles. From there, Levy argues, it is a short emotional step to the affection people can be expected to display towards robots. Some readers may be turned off by Levy's fairly graphic descriptions of the mechanics of having sex with robots, and may wonder why Levy chose not to include recent research on the human genome that could one day lead to replacing human "parts," potentially making us more robot-like ourselves. Though Levy's topic is undeniably on the fringe, it will appeal to readers keen on pondering futuristic scenarios.

Ever see the movie Westworld (1973)? A remake is coming out in 2009:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/

A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want.

[Thunderball]

lol... I'm still expecting this to be debunked as a joke... its too funny!