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RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mirror.co.uk: Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll, revealed the next step in making the high-end sex toys will be to give them artificial intelligence to replicate humans more closely than ever. "We are building an AI system which can either be connected to a robotic doll OR experienced in a VR environment," he revealed as part of an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. "I think it will allow for an option that never existed before, and for some, may represent a happiness they [users] never thought they could have. We are designing the AI to be fun and engaging, more than focusing on whether it can fool you into thinking it's a person," he said. He later added, when someone asked if dolls will ever love us back: "I hope that we can at least simulate that," McMullen responded. "That's the goal." In addition to AI and VR, Teledildonics are coming to the sex industry as well. "Teledildonics is technology for remote sex where tactile sensations are communicated over a data link between the participants -- with Siri, Alexa, Cortana and other AI software," reports Mirror.co.uk. The company is "putting the finishing touches" on its AI app, with plans to release it within the next six months. Oh, and it's also working on releasing a RealDoll with a robotic head by the end of 2017 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
...I'm going to like this sirrigate.
is will it make me a sandwich?
That's all I want from a "love doll"- one that "loves" me enough to boink my brains out and then climb back into her box.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Where's a link to the Futurama informational video on why sex bots are bad when you need it?
. . . with the RealHamster!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH^^
Mod this UP!! It's true but funny.
i'm not leaving the house.
hehe I think you meant true BUTT funny ;-)
Talk about unlimited access... hacked...
I have a low battery.
Have gnu, will travel.
RealDoll does not need intelligence, artificial or natural. Just make them body temperature, and maybe give them a pulse?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Are there really that many losers with an extra 10 grand running around who are willing to buy these things?
There will, surely, be nothing more satisfying than the affection of an expert system that has been tuned to love absolutely anyone whose licensing agreements and software maintenance contract are in order.
The Internet of Remote-Controlled Penis-Grasping Things.
No thanks.
half of the lonely nerds on /. just got REALLY excited... ;-)
I'm doing NOTHING if I can't review the SOURCE CODE!
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
Man this world just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
then turning it on again. "
When will the RealDoll start driving for Uber?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
You: hey, let's make love!
A real doll with AI: not tonight, honey. I'm working on proving the Riemann's conjecture.
Thaw me out when robot wives are cheap and effective.
The Simpsons...
Sex is primal. If you haven't noticed, it's one of the big pillars of society (eating and management of defecation being two others). Since a growing majority of women are being taught that men are scum from kindergarten to college, men are starting to find outlets elsewhere. Why take on the social, legal, and financial risks of having sex in college and, later on, marriage with a 50% failure rate? Of course, it's not a real woman, but $10k is a drop in the bucket compared to those costs. It's interesting that feminists have a problem with this. They claim men are so abusive, so what's the big deal if they go elsewhere? Of course, that's not what feminists really want. They want to control men by retaining control over access to sex. Sex toys circumvent that somewhat. They're not really that concerned about today, they're worried about 20-30 years from now.
I dunno, maybe because nerds have a hard enough time landing girls that they turn to something artificial? It's not hard to understand how we got here.
every 5 minutes:
"Do you miss me?"
"When are you coming home?"
"What do you wanna do tonight?"
"Do you still love me?"
"WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME??!!"
slashdot: A failed experiment.
Sex dolls were already creepy, but now if people talk to them...
Advertising the most technologically advanced sex doll on Slashdot. Well played RealDoll, well played.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
I shuddered at "RealDoll CEO" . A CEO with three working offices?
You think I could get a custom one that will tell me, "You should have totally won, Donald, but it was rigged"?
This is truly news for nerds. Good job, editors.
The last thing we need are sex dolls that are smarter than you.
Tick tock, SJW (Third Wave) Feminists. It's only a matter of time before men literally don't have to put up with your shit anymore.
There is something really fucked up - poor choice of words - with the dating scene that this would happen. For everything we're taught about respecting equality, dating is incredibly superficial. If you blow someone off - poor choice of words - because of their race, you're a racist. But if you blow someone off because physically they don't appeal to you for some reason you can't explain, that's just fine. Being dumped is the most demeaning thing that can happen to a man - or woman. How you can fix that I don't know, but sending people off to their room with a robot that says "I love you - Insert Credit Card" is not the answer.
And the rest of use can get some peace.
They need to keep those call centers busy, It is not AI just outsourcing.
In regards to teledildonics, I wonder if paying someone to remotely stimulate your genitals will fall afoul of any prostitution laws. I... heard from a friend... that there are already some services like this, although they're positioned as live webcam services rather than 'telesex'.
Once the novelty wears off, who's going to stay committed to a relationship with a weak AI? Aside from providing sexy banter (repeated lines of dialogue will be a huge boner-kill though) I don't see what the long-term value could be. An AI (even specialist system) that trains the socially awkward to be able to interact with other people well enough to be able to form and maintain romantic relationships would be far more valuable.
it's also working on releasing a RealDoll with a robotic head
Which head?
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
... people believe what sex robot says back to them. And some will. Ugggggghhhhhhh
Prostitution is legal as long as you film it. Same goes for your scenario. It is called making a porn.
With RiPO, me ruv you rong time. ;)
Now what I am supposed to do with all the porn?
Achieve demographic transformation by ensuring the existing Western populations are encouraged to be gay, or don't have children, or have sex dolls. None of these are particularly harmful on the individual scale, but when frequent in a society it means the society does not reproduce at replacement rate. As Mark Steyn says, "The future belongs to those who show up for it". Meanwhile, import fast-breeding replacement populations that have no cultural affinity for the places they are entering. George Soros, and others, have spent 7 billion and a great deal of political capital pushing this change. It is madness.
...for an A.I. with whom I could have real conversations. Not an order-taker, but an actual companion that can keep up with me for God's sake.
Most people barely qualify. The few that do are lifelong friends. An A.I. that can do this would be better than a wife.
This is how Europe, North America, Australia and Japan pass to be history.
And once the developing countries catch up, they'll go extinct too.
Don't call it an App!
I feel so sad for so many people I have never met right now.
I want a Cherry 2000 with a complete manual, parts kit and extended maintence warrentee !!!
Can I get a discount if I want one in each color/hair option ?
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
What does feminism have to do with women not liking you?
Play Command HQ online
Melvin Bliss predicted this ...
Since feminism told women that they can sleep around, instead of saying that the men sleeping around was bad. It makes women less likely to settle for average guys for long term relationships, when they can have one night stands and short relationships with rich and athletic guys (even if these guys will say they want something long term). But, tech nerds are told by feminists that it doesn't matter if a girl has slept with lots of other guys before you.
> I wonder if paying someone to remotely stimulate your genitals will fall afoul of any prostitution laws
depends if the stimulation is being done by a human. or a bot. or a 555 timer.
A potential market for such an AI is in trillions.
The real future here will be genetic engineering. A woman shaped animal with a high sex drive imprinted on you, always warm and willing. I'd much rather have sex with a live creature than a machine.
... is that one of the biggest taboos in our first-world societies is that there is a nigh rampant sexual frustration in women.
In that regard I really don't "get" sex dolls.
Honestly, if you absolutely, positively need to f*ck, there is just about an abundance of decent women around who would be glad to indulge.
Women are promiscous - very often even more so than men. The problem is that in our 1st world society women are very keen on not getting a reputation of being a slut. The evolutionary and old-testament concept of the blemished women is deeply rooted in men, which also makes it difficult for men to shed some over-inflated romantic vision of a perfect 10 that f*cks like a porn-star but at the same time for some outworldly unrealistic reason only has eyes "for me". Sort of like the patendly absurd expectations of women vis-a-vis men when it comes to a male mates income and status.
To this day only the strongest and truly independant women have raised being an "ethical slut" to something that is a virtue (those types are rare, gorgeous and a bit scary at the same time :-) ), whilst most women public still speak of sex as a bad thing, even though most women secretly think otherwise. Which is one of the big problems in our society that has decoupled sex from reproduction but outside of 60ies hippie counter-culture hasn't yet quite grasped what that actually means.
But back to the topic: It's not for a lack of decent/usable women that would have sex.
Even simpler yet: The money that buys you such a doll will buy you enough hookers to give you sex you'll never forget your entire life.
The lesson is this: If you're a man that needs to have sex, there are plenty women around who need the same thing, you just have to follow a few basic rules:
1) Don't expect Thandie Newton to stand in line for you if you're an overweight, overworked and underpaid IT guy - go hunting in your own territory and you won't run dry.
2) Don't expect that colleague from accounting that fucked your brains out two weeks ago to look up to you as her future husband and sex-demigod for the rest of your life. If she enjoyed being a pr0n-slut with you, she will enjoy it with others too. You can't have it both ways. Women have desires too. It's that simple.
3) Don't speak too loud of your adventure, if at all. Women can smell a guy that won't protect their reputation from 20 miles away - evolution has made it so.
Good hunting. ;-)
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
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Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword.
I like the idea behind this, but I think two problems will undermine adoption:
1 - People are creeped out by realdoll faces already. There needs to be a massive improvement here to remove the uncanny valley aspect. Even if a VR/AR sex toy improvement can be created with software, ultimately the "doll" is just prop for someone to stick their cock, fingers or tongue into.
2 - Why would you need the entire doll when you just need the cocksleeve(onahole) or vibe/buttplug anyway? A VR helmet doesn't need a facy prop when you can't see it.
Perhaps utilizing a camera on the outside of the VR helmet that could see "the doll"'s contours could improve someones sexytime, but the dolls are ultimately still a toy.
Get out of your basement. The recent generations are little entitled whores that open their legs to anybody, and just get pregnant to be have another continuous revenue after their father dropped dead supporting them until their late 30s.
People starving to death because they spent all their money on a Love-doll
Well, at least we'll die with a smile on our face!
Will that entitle it to keep half its body ?
And if so, which half would that be ?
I'm actually serious. If we get to a point were we can simulate, convincingly, any experience we want, why go anywhere? Why create anything?
You 'hack the wetware' and that's the end of it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMv11Bz19g
Quite the opposite, it is the answer. And probably cheaper too in the long run.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So settling for something that doesn't satisfy you is ... good? Did I just get that right?
And it does matter whether a girl has slept with someone before you? Why? Are you one of those collector nerds who only gets hard if it's NRFB?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
A 555 timer? Ohhh, why did you have to say that... anyone got a towel?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
But, tech nerds are told by feminists that it doesn't matter if a girl has slept with lots of other guys before you.
That's because it doesn't matter. In fact, I prefer a woman who has some experience. Inexperience is okay in High School, but once you're out of college you should know what you're doing between the sheets.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
who's going to stay committed to a relationship with a weak AI?
I suggest you lookup the term 'waifu'.
I Dated a Robot - All civilisation was just an effort to impress the opposite sex ... and sometimes the same sex. https://theinfosphere.org/Tran...
Sex dolls that are connected to the cloud. What could possibly go wrong?
But seriously, the Japanese are WAAAAAY ahead on all of this. First of all, the Japanese dolls are much better looking, much more realistic-looking. Secondly the Japanese are ahead on Robotics, I assume you've seen their Uncanny Valley creepy talking heads.
Now admittedly, RealDoll's effort may advance the whole industry, but the RealDolls look fairly plastic and aren't all that attractive. Silicone is durable, but it doesn't seem to be the material of choice for true doll afficianados.
Not that I know anything about all this, of course.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
"What does feminism have to do with women not liking you?"
If you have to ask that question, you haven't been exposed to the full spectrum of feminist thought. I spent a couple of years at a liberal arts college before going into engineering. It was crazy. There is a serious man-hating contingent in that movement and they're actively spreading their message and recruiting. Ever heard "All sex is rape!"? Do you know about these "women" who want the printed word to be spelled "womyn" because they hate the word "men" so much? And don't even think of calling an 18 y/o a "girl" unless you want to be hanged from the flagpole on the campus green.
Even if a woman doesn't become one of the true believers, she might be somewhere on the spectrum. Exposure to this man-hating, anti-sex propaganda creates a certain weird atmosphere. Probably something like the culture in the former East Germany. Even the women who did want to experiment with sex wanted to keep it secret from the other womyn for fear of public shaming. Forget using HER room because her pissy roommates might report her "crime" to the feminist Stasi.
Plus, living in that environment as a young guy makes you feel like you need to walk on eggshells when approaching a woman. When you're running through a mental checklist of "don't say this, don't say that, don't leer at her body, don't touch her uninvited..." for fear of consequences, you're not exuding the confidence that women/womyn find appealing.
Feminism has(had) a lot to do with womyn not liking me.
Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745).
June 25, 1745
My dear Friend,
I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the complete human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.
But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:
i. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stored with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreeable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produced may be attended with much Inconvenience.
4. Because through more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclined to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.
8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!
Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.
I finally have a shot at love
There's an Elvengear /dev/girl T-shirt I'd been thinking of giving a girlfriend (who hated being objectified and wasn't a big Linux fan) - but NOW, the perfect excuse! Literally true! ... assuming you can run LInux on her. :-)
Servos, movements, etc.. As long as the "strength" is limited and it doesn't take automatic firmware (huh huhuh hehhuh.. I said FIRM) updates, it might be interesting for those who can't find a relationship (that number of people isn't small). Cost needs to come down.
If it take updates and has a great deal of strength, I can smell hacks that injure people already. Heheh huhhh.. I said smell.
Speaking as a middle-aged nerd who still has trouble speaking to attractive women but somehow managed to get married, I'd say the problem is yours to solve, not "the feminists". Your attitudes show that you're the one out of step. Please don't become bitter, there's a woman out there for you.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "rooting your device" doesn't it? ;)
Love and AI.
These two things have absolutely 0 to do with each other.
"They want to control men by retaining control over access to sex."
I wish I had mod points to could mark parent up.
Women treat sex like a tradable commodity. Like every other commodity, sex is subject to the sacred underpinnings of economic law: Supply and Demand. You ever notice that when a woman has sex a little more freely than other women approve of, she's called 'cheap'? There's a reason for that. It's a classic cartel situation, like OPEC. Women pretty much control the supply of sex: they ration it out and create an artificial shortage. Yet, demand is hot. That is why they can get us pay to through the nose for it. Women don't always consciously realize that this is what they're doing. There's no big conspiracy, this is just how women naturally seem to behave. Most of them withhold sex while appearing to offer it, if the man meets her conditions. As a result, the aggregate efforts of all these individual women acting in their own self-interests to optimize conditions for themselves have dovetailed together into what merely seems like a conscious implementation of a massive cartel.
In a cartel situation there is an internal flaw: every member of the cartel has an incentive to cheat the restrictions that they've placed on themselves. To combat this tendency, one or more members of the cartel has to act as a rule-enforcer. A successful cartel will have a built-in method to assure the perpetuation of itself.
In OPEC: say Indonesia overproduces its quota by 100,000 barrels a month. The price of oil goes down as more of the stuff floods onto the market. Then Saudi Arabia acts as the enforcer. Saudi Arabia, which has the lowest production costs of all OPEC nations and plenty of spare production capacity, opens-up the taps and floods the world with ultra-cheap oil. The world price goes down to a point which punishes EVERY country in the cartel (except Saudi Arabia) and the offending members get pressured-into stepping-back in line. That way, every member of the cartel uses diplomatic pressure to make sure that the quotas are maintained.
Now, this sort of thing doesn't happen among women in the same way, but there IS enforcement of a kind. Specifically, social ridicule is the enforcement mechanism. If a woman gives-away sex to too many times, women spread rumors about her and she gets a bad rep. If she goes outside the limits of the cartel, the cartel will hammer her. That deterrence is the female method of making sure the supply stays tight. If every woman gave-away sex more easily, the price would fall. That's why any woman who gives-away sex at too big a discount is 'cheap'. 'Sluts' are shunned and hated because they drag the price-down. Now, women don't consciously realize they're enforcing cartel rules, they think they're just being social by trashing their 'slutty' acquaintances. They're just following the crowd.
(Note: This post was copied from material I found here: http://www.the-niceguy.com/articles/SupplyDemand.html)
Has it ever dawned on you that you are terrible person?
Difficulties establishing an intimate relationship with another human being, even to the point of giving up, is a widespread problem, treated medically, psychiatricly, psychologically, spiritually, and on and on.
Have some fucking empathy. Oh I forgot, you are a terrible person. Sorry to have wasted your time.
Imagine you're in your new car with your wife and ask where the nearest Mexican beef place is and Siri/Cortana change into their sexy voice and say - well I'm right here big boy! Let me take over the controls of your electric seat.
Really how twisted, perverted and sick can society get? Every time I think it has hit a new low and can't get any lower, someone comes up with something even more sick, twisted and perverted like this! Can't we see that this is to destroy and undermine the human person?