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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.
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.
no, but it will tell you to take out the trash.
Talk about unlimited access... hacked...
I have a low battery.
Have gnu, will travel.
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.
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.
LOVE ME!
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"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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?
This is truly news for nerds. Good job, editors.
Just make them body temperature, and maybe give them a pulse?
Sure, if you're into that kind of thing.
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.
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?
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?
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A potential market for such an AI is in trillions.
... 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
Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword.
Well, for the latter half of your comment, you will also need a large, very absorbent towel.....
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
I didn't know she was dead, your Honor. I thought she was British.
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.
You already don't. I made one law concerning dates, year ago: Don't fuck with crazy.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
She hates browser games and likes only real ones?
That's my girl!
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)
In other words, you'd like a sadist who tries to lock you into using Microsoft products.
who's going to stay committed to a relationship with a weak AI?
I suggest you lookup the term 'waifu'.
Because as we all learned in history class. Northern europeans are native to North America.
I Dated a Robot - All civilisation was just an effort to impress the opposite sex ... and sometimes the same sex. https://theinfosphere.org/Tran...
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+5 Dark Humour
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.
Yes, tie me up and call my API functions!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"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.
Not much better than being "free" to use java or flash i suppose.
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.
Love and AI.
These two things have absolutely 0 to do with each other.
Yawn. You can't address the point of today so you deflect to an irrelevant strawman. Typical of those who support the demographic transformation will will inevitably result in the destruction of Enlightenment Civilization. Is this what you want and why you defend that agenda with your strawman ?
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.
Yea, it is damn near impossible to find a woman who has anything interesting to talk about. Every damn time I find one that does, they turn out to be a lesbian, transitioning into being a male, or happily married for many years. There has only ever been one exception to this and I missed my chance with her many years ago.
There is a flaw to that thinking. Some of them are very good at hiding the crazy until after you have fucked them.
Not SJWs.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
True, they do tend to out themselves pretty quickly, but they are not the ones I was talking about. I'm talking about the ones who act normal until you fuck them and then they act like you have been the closest couple ever for years. Then they try to destroy your relationships with all your friends and family. Those are the ones that are scary.
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?