Best Sentence of the Day

by on December 2, 2007 at 9:14 am in Books | Permalink

By 2025 “at the latest,” he predicts, “artificial-emotion technologies”
will allow robots to be more emotionally available than the typical
American human male.

I believe that my wife would not be alone in thinking that the toaster exceeded this standard some time ago.

Joe December 2, 2007 at 9:54 am

Alex’s comment is an even better sentence

Yancey Ward December 2, 2007 at 1:34 pm

Once robots start killing spiders, we men may well be useless to women.

Asimov December 2, 2007 at 8:14 pm

Once robots start having sex, women will be totally useless to men.

Aric December 2, 2007 at 10:39 pm

Imagine what the reaction have been if some AI researcher were to write, “And soon, we expect increasing machine intelligence to make computers more capable of carrying on an intelligent conversation than a typical woman.”

Tim December 3, 2007 at 4:05 am

I don’t know if this day will arrive in 2025 (seems a bit early to me, but maybe) but I think it will eventually. We all know (or anyone with an SO knows) that people can get on each other’s nerves, and they can be abusive, selfish, cheats, etc. Half of marriages end in divorce, so obviously there’s some room for improvement.

But we have to mate, right? Sure, but that doesn’t mean that we have to live together. It could be a business relationship. Man commits to paying X up front and X per month (if he wants the privilege of passing on his genes) and woman accepts the best offer available. She and her robot husband raise the kids (or maybe the man and his robot wife do). Maybe there are separate robot nannies.

I suppose people will say this is creepy, and maybe it is, but I think we will get used to the idea and it will start to feel normal.

henry December 3, 2007 at 2:10 pm

one more robot – flaming lips

Person December 4, 2007 at 1:56 pm

Men will respond with drastic, self-threatening measures to increase their “emotional availability”.

Women will respond with drastic, self-threatening measures to increase their sexual attractiveness.

Oh wait, already got the second one.

Alex December 7, 2007 at 11:10 pm

If the robots are readily available by 2025, I think there will be two things that men will do.
1. They will be happy to get rid of their wifes for a while so they don’t have to act emotional around them.
2. They will go insane trying to be more emotional to their partners.

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