Fri Jun 3, 2022 – 8:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – An artificial intelligence (AI) expert predicts that within 50 years as much as one-fifth of the population will decide to have lifelike digital babies instead of real ones.
By the early 2070s, couples who cannot have or afford babies, or who are concerned about ”overpopulation,” will be able to buy and interact with their own virtual AI “children” for about $25 a month, according to Catriona Campbell, Former UK government adviser and author of AI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence, South West News Service (SWNS) reported.
Campbell calls such expected imitation “children” — described as an “abomination” by one Twitter user — the “Tamagotchi” generation, named after the popular 1990s-era electronic keychain device “pet” one could virtually care for. However, the AI children Campbell is predicting would be simulated with technology leaps and bounds beyond the Tamagotchi pets in its ability to imitate real life.
Not only would AI simulate in three-dimensional form the facial expressions, emotions, and speech of a child, including their laughs and cooing, couples would have the sensation that they are actually holding and cuddling “children,” through the
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