Your very own mail-order cylon

The lede from from a Computerworld article from Saturday:

An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050.

Robots will become so human-like -- having intelligent conversations, displaying emotions and responding to human emotions -- that they'll be very much like a new race of people, said David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher whose book, "Love and Sex with Robots," will be released on Nov. 6.

As delightful as Levy's prognostications sound, may I also recommend a slightly different perspective?

(Thanks to Mark Brokering via the O'Reilly editors list for the link)