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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.

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  1. Hey Siri... by MouseR · · Score: 2

    ...I'm going to like this sirrigate.

    1. Re:Hey Siri... by LifesABeach · · Score: 2

      I can Sing the Body Electric?

    2. Re:Hey Siri... by LordKronos · · Score: 2

      1001001

    3. Re:Hey Siri... by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      I'm fairly sure the most searched term Cortana relayed was something along the lines "How the fuck do you turn that shit off?"

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  2. Hot boinky, then back in the box by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Hot boinky, then back in the box by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

      This may cut into the market for Slovenian "supermodels".

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    2. Re:Hot boinky, then back in the box by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      Maybe hose itself off first. And change the bedsheets. And maybe start the laundry. Like some kind of sex-bot/roomba hybrid. Maybe a roomba with blowjob attachment?

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  3. /* Heading goes here */ by m0hawk · · Score: 2

    Where's a link to the Futurama informational video on why sex bots are bad when you need it?

    1. Re:/* Heading goes here */ by NotInHere · · Score: 4, Informative
    2. Re:/* Heading goes here */ by BringsApples · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm pretty sure royalty, billionaires, politicians and Hollywood celebrities are using real underage kids.

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    3. Re:/* Heading goes here */ by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 2

      royalty, billionaires, politicians, Hollywood celebrities

      Realdolls start at $5500. You don't need to be royalty or a billionaire to afford one. Even for a man of modest means, a Realdoll is going to be cheaper than a real GF.

  4. Hope they share the technology . . . by user+no.+590291 · · Score: 2

    . . . with the RealHamster!

  5. forget about self-driving cars by turkeydance · · Score: 4, Funny

    i'm not leaving the house.

  6. Re:All I want to know by SpankiMonki · · Score: 2

    no, but it will tell you to take out the trash.

  7. Not tonight dear by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a low battery.

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  8. This will go well... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:This will go well... by sir-gold · · Score: 2

      I can see this getting banned in Asia for this exact reason.

      People starving to death because they spent all their money on a Love-doll AI subscription, or committing suicide because they can't afford the subscription anymore.

      Remember, this is the same part of the world where lonely men end up falling in love with (and in some cases, marrying) video game characters and inanimate objects.

    2. Re:This will go well... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      It's worth doing some reading on porn addiction. Like all addictions it's chasing that feeling, which leads to ever more consumption of ever stronger material.

      It also creates image problems. There was some discussion on the BBC recently, where they had some stats showing that public hair removal is now pretty much the norm among university age women and very popular with men, with natural hair being openly mocked and described as "gross" and "disgusting". Mainly because in porn, shaving is almost universal.

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  9. IoRCPGT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Internet of Remote-Controlled Penis-Grasping Things.

    No thanks.

  10. Yes, but Will It Be GPL? by WheezyJoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm doing NOTHING if I can't review the SOURCE CODE!

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    1. Re:Yes, but Will It Be GPL? by cfalcon · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I'm doing NOTHING if I can't review the SOURCE CODE!

      Come on, give it a chance. The last fifty years should have shown you one thing clearly: nothing else can fuck you like closed source software.

  11. Re:These dolls are EXPENSIVE by Tokolosh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. They are called pre-divorce guys.

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  12. What I Want To Know: by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2

    When will the RealDoll start driving for Uber?

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  13. A scene from not so distant future. by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 2

    You: hey, let's make love!

    A real doll with AI: not tonight, honey. I'm working on proving the Riemann's conjecture.

  14. Re:Get a life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  15. Re:All I want to know by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny
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  16. A doll that texts you at work by FrankHaynes · · Score: 3, Funny

    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??!!"

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  17. WELL PLAYED by fluffernutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Advertising the most technologically advanced sex doll on Slashdot. Well played RealDoll, well played.

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  18. Re:Just don't let them talk... Moaning is ok by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just make them body temperature, and maybe give them a pulse?

    Sure, if you're into that kind of thing.

  19. Re:These dolls are EXPENSIVE by sir-gold · · Score: 2

    Yes, I used to know someone who bought one. He had to sell his massive collection of female-only action figures to afford it, though.

  20. WIth RiPo... by Type44Q · · Score: 2

    With RiPO, me ruv you rong time. ;)

  21. Re:These dolls are EXPENSIVE by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are there really that many losers with an extra 10 grand running around who are willing to buy these things?

    $10K for a fake GF is cheap compared to the cost of a real one.

  22. Re:CEO Doll by azrael29a · · Score: 4, Funny

    I shuddered at "RealDoll CEO" . A CEO with three working offices?

    I guess you meant "orifices".

  23. Ow by Afty0r · · Score: 2

    Guy killed me, Mal. He killed me with a sword.

  24. Re:Just don't let them talk... Moaning is ok by reboot246 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I didn't know she was dead, your Honor. I thought she was British.

  25. Re:What heterosexual men need to learn ... by lucasnate1 · · Score: 2

    Your post is assuming that men and women are mostly the same except for some societal roles. I think you are wrong because of two things:

    1) Women don't cum as easily as men.
    2) Women suffer from bad sex more than men (Example: Let's say I have desperate sex with an icky woman, I'll feel bad for an hour and go on. Most women that I know would feel bad for several hours at least, including the "sluts".

    1 and 2 encourage women to be more picky.

  26. Re:What heterosexual men need to learn ... by lucasnate1 · · Score: 2

    Sure, because women only want to be fucked, they don't want to be oral sex'd, the don't want to cum, they just want to be fucked, even it's only for 5 mins.

    Are you sure I'm the naive one?

  27. Re:Creepy to a next level by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    You think people didn't talk to their sex dolls before?

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