http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,473054-1,00.html
A computer scientist has built a robotic head which does a much better job of mimicking human appearance than anything previously done -- indeed, from the photographs in the article, it looks like it does as good a job as anything in the movie _AI_. The conceptual issues involved with this are explored in the article, since this touches a nerve and excites emotional responses.
Again, given the general tendency of mankind, we have to ask ourselves how this will be applied to pornography first, in order to get a handle on how the technology will spread. Thought about long enough in this context, along with other strands of development covered in this blog, and loss of sleep seems like the only reasonable response.
Posted by jho at September 25, 2003 12:00 PM