Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. <\/p>\n
The happy couple, as presented in the Qianjiang Evening News. <\/p>\n
It's hard to find love. <\/p>\n
It's even harder to find love that lasts. Sometimes, you reach a moment when you just say: \"To hell with it.\" <\/p>\n
Or, in the case of one Chinese engineer: \"To artificial intelligence with it.\" Which is more or less the same thing. <\/p>\n
As the South China Morning Post reports, 31-year-old Zheng Jiajia held a ceremony on Friday in which he promised to love his robot in sickness and in health. <\/p>\n
The marriage isn't necessarily legal, but the commitment is surely admirable. <\/p>\n
Zheng is, conveniently, an artificial intelligence expert. So he created his own own wife out of his own head. And his own nuts and bolts, of course. <\/p>\n
The Post, relying on the reporting of the local Qianjiang Evening News, said Zheng's robot is called Yingying. She can apparently understand certain words and even utter a few of her own. <\/p>\n
Zheng reportedly used to work for Huawei, but then joined a startup in the commercial center of Huangzhou known as Dream Town. <\/p>\n
I asked the Post whether the concept of April Fools' existed in China and was firmly told it doesn't. <\/p>\n
Indeed, the Shanghaist reports that Zheng has been dating his robot for two months before proposing. <\/p>\n
Naturally, being an AI expert, Zheng is going to help his wife develop her abilities in language, as well as other skills. By upgrading her, of course. <\/p>\n
Zheng isn't the first to marry a slightly less-than-animated wife. In 2010, a Korean man married a pillow with the image of an anime character on it. <\/p>\n
Never judge where people find love. Just admire that they've found it at all. <\/p>\n
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