Later, when they get the vote and hold public offices, they might start programming themselves for their own sexual preferences and leave us begging.

Some, like auditory cues, would be programmable, but what about smells, tastes, and tactile sensations?

How would you replicate those important parts of the sexual experience?

I would think it’d be very difficult to create a reasonable robot facsimile of kissing, for example.

Even something as mundane as saliva has its role to play.

I’m thinking, gross as it may sound, that it would probably be technologically easier to re-animate human bodies à la Frankenstein’s monster than to create a satisfactorily pleasurable robot surrogate.

Resurrecting brain activity might not even be necessary, since nerve impulses could be stimulated artificially, and would be programmable, I suppose.

That would open up a whole new Pandora’s box of medical and ethical considerations.

AI has been an extremely tough nut to crack, but it is improving.

The reality of now is quite different from what they imagined– except for the proliferation of sky scrapers in big cities like Shanghai– most places look pretty much the same as they did then.

I expect that fifty years from now it will be the same with robots– they’ll be more human like, and people may even be having sex with them, but I doubt the sexual landscape will change that much.

I really don’t think there’s any danger of robots evolving ‘desire’, or any other emotion, and even the fanciest, most human-like sexbots would most likely be little more than technologically sophisticated blow up dolls.