In the short story “The Man Doll” by Susan Swan, the doll named Manny is created, then comes to life and starts a revolution. The story is fairly nerve-wracking because of how human-like the robots are depicted, how they seem to have emotions and free will. It is surprising that it is possible to create a robot with such empathy, and with emotional needs of it’s own. It seems that these robots go from being just a machine to satisfy people’s sexual needs to being human.
This is one example of how fiction can become reality. When the book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was written, the idea of a submarine that could go to the bottom of the ocean was absurd. This is the same with “The Man Doll” and the movie “I, Robot”, where artificial intelligence has reached the point to where it can choose for itself, it does not need programming for every decision. Today, in Europe, when they are litigating in preparation for the emersion of real artificial intelligence, the laws passed resemble the laws in the movie. It is a frightening thing to think about, if eventually life will start to resemble the movie and short story, and the robots will rebel.
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