Lovotics
Lovotics is the name given to the emerging field of the study of social interaction and emotional relationships between human beings and robots, other machines and artificial intelligences.
Use of Robots to Augment Human Relationships
At its most basic level, lovotics refers to the use of robots and and other mechanical devices to aid human relationships. Examples of this are the study of the use of robots to allow people with sensory impairment to get closer to a fuller range of romantic sensory experience, or the use of robots to transmit sensory data between lovers in remote locations.
Robots and Artificial Intelligences as Pets
Another part of lovotics deals with the adoption of robots and rudimentary artificial intelligences pets. Examples of this already exist: popular toys such as tamagotchis and other interactive artificial pets encourage their owners to care for them and express emotions as they would with a real pet; the artificial pet responds with simulated emotion. As technology develops, these pets will get more lifelike, and capable of bulding more complex relationships with their owners.
Robots and Artificial Intelligences as Partners
This final part of lovotics deals with human beings forming romantic and/or sexual relationships with robots and artificial intelligences. Since this will only be truly possible when artificial intelligences have evolved to a level where either they have achieved sentience, or when sentience can be reasonably faked (thus passing the Turing test), this point is still some way in the future. However, once this point has been reached it is reasonable to assume that construction techniques will have developed enough to allow fabrication of a realistic human-type body (if that is what is desired). At this point, it is not only possible but likely that human beings will begin to enter relationships with artifical beings, and the era of lovotics will have truly begun.
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