from the what-are-these-girls-you-speak-of? dept.
RealDoll, after almost 20 years of selling "the world's finest love doll," is developing an animated, robotic, artificially intelligent head that can be switched onto existing RealDoll bodies. The purpose, according to RealDoll's founder and CEO Matt McMullen, is to "arouse someone on an emotional, intellectual level, beyond the physical."
If you haven't heard of RealDoll before, the company makes expensive ($5,000-$10,000, £3,200-£6,400) but very realistic sex dolls. The dolls (which come in male and female varieties) have fully poseable skeletons, silicone skin, and are roughly the same weight and size as a real human. The dolls have interchangeable faces and orifices.
The reality that Westworld and AI imagined decades ago has arrived. What are the ethical implications? Would you be willing to use one?
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In 2024 we are not yet completely inured to the latest technology — smart sex toys that track your orgasms, virtual-reality hookups, chatbot sexting — but we may be on our way. In less than 10 years' time, "app dating" became simply "dating."
What will seem routine at the end of the next decade?
Feeding, fighting, fleeing and sex — in 1958, the neuropsychologist Karl H. Pribram identified these as the four basic drives that underpin human behavior, influencing everything we do. There are thousands of apps, websites and devices for food, arguing and transportation, and maybe even more for sex.
When dating apps like Grindr and Tinder first arrived, some speculated that they signaled the dawning of a new era of technosexuality, in which our sexual and romantic lives would be mediated by machines. Now it seems quaint to worry about how online dating might shape us, not because it hasn't, but because technology has become so entwined with human desire that it's challenging to separate our sexuality — itself inextricable from what makes us human — from the technology we use to express it.
We may like to imagine a distant future where humans and robots merge in virtual realms, but it may already be here. We meet dates on our phones, watch pornography on our tablets and bicker with our partners over text.
[...] The boom in sex tech has coincided with what some have called a sex recession, the pronounced slowdown in sex for Americans that started in the 1990s. In 2024, with A.I. and V.R. creating more hyper-stimulating sensory expenses, the chasm between the sex we have online and the sex we have I.R.L. may be widening.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:11PM
NSA
(Score: 5, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:47PM
"Cum, elucidate your thoughts...."
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:35AM
Yeh... I guess the phrase: "liquidation of assets" is going to take on a whole new meaning.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:17PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000 [wikipedia.org]
Somewhat more seriously I could see this completely replacing most female entertainers, music, TV, etc. Could "she" read the news cheaper and better than existing news readers? Could she lip sync to someone elses music while dancing cheaper than the existing models?
roughly the same weight and size as a real human
As a hot one, not a people of walmart one. See recent story about average woman of 2015 being heavier than average man of 1960. Although special orders will likely be available.
Also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_%28novel%29 [wikipedia.org]
Specifically the products the toymaker sells from his suitcase. It'll be interesting to see if those are made illegal or not. For spoiler reasons I can't mention what was in the suitcase, but, just think about the book title. It is interesting to think about, if the level of AI is "kid like" then what does that imply?
an animated, robotic, artificially intelligent head that can be switched onto existing RealDoll bodies
As per above can you put two on one body, or strap one on to a standard issue human? That could be handy. Or is that heady? If the artificial head is booted up but the human one is unconscious drunk would that be consent? Or if the head is powered off but the human is awake, hmm. I guess it'll depend on if the owner of the fun parts is online or not.
Aside from XXX related issues, any level of intellectual at all, mounted on a secondary head, would improve many politicians and leaders.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:23PM
Veering off-topic here...
Apart from Westworld, AI and Cherry 2000, another candidate for "humanoid robots in the sex industry" fiction would be the brand new Humans [channel4.com] from Channel 4. You can probably watch Episode 1 from that link, UK-based IP address may or may not be required. First episode was pretty good, with heavy nods to "I, Robot" and potential to be a really interesting series. Also a pleasure to see Katherine Parkinson (Jen from the IT Crowd) in a serious role, she's very good.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:51PM
It may be that it will not play on linux.. will not work without UK ip, and will not work with VPN UK ip address so i guess it is not linux compatible?
Pity....
do i have to go see if it is on torrents and download illegally??? Is that what you want Corporations? Is it? Really????
Jen?... Jen??? I have a nice pair of red pumps for you! Size two sizes too small!!!
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(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:28PM
You writing about the robot or GAA's TV show? Reads likely either way.
We're gonna be having conversations like: "The goatse adapter is DRMed to only work on windows 8.1, appropriately enough, and if thats not bad enough it also wants to install ASK toolbar"
I can't wait to see the Apple iSexRobot which will probably come with a black turtleneck sweater and when it doesn't work you'll get press releases about holding it wrong.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:19PM
I can't wait to see the Apple iSexRobot ...
Apple doesn't need to ship such a thing. With their pricing you get completely screwed over before you've even dropped your pants.
(I own a fully decked-out RMBP)
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:26PM
Hola extension will get around geolocation fairly well :)
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday June 16 2015, @11:12PM
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(Score: 2) by archshade on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:48PM
It may be that it will not play on Linux.
I use the channel 4 catch up service regularly on Linux with no real problems. One small issue I had to enable hal service. Need certain JS and Flash. I do have a UK ip though
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday June 17 2015, @09:59PM
I have the flash...will have to check js. Thanks!
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(Score: 2) by archshade on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:35PM
I have allowed JS from the following domains.
Although the real key is starting the hal service (I'm using arch and needed to install it from yaourt). Without hal the video just loads forever. Also just in case I am using palemoon, but have tried it with chromium w/pepperflash and that also worked.
YMMV HTH
(Score: 3, Informative) by darnkitten on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:16PM
If you like Humans, you might want to try Äkta människor (Real humans), the Swedish series it was based on. Season 1 is available on Amazon. Very good.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:59PM
If the artificial head is booted up but the human one is unconscious drunk would that be consent? Or if the head is powered off but the human is awake, hmm. I guess it'll depend on if the owner of the fun parts is online or not.
I don't know, but he's been described as "the best Bang since the Big One" by Eccentrica Gallumbits, and as "one hoopy frood" by others.
(Score: 1) by DutchUncle on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:35PM
>> Could "she" read the news cheaper and better than existing news readers?
And could she tell you 'bout a plane crash with a gleam in her eye?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday June 16 2015, @01:23PM
> The reality that Westworld and AI imagined decades ago has arrived.
I don't think we're quite there yet. What was imagined in those films were independent, walking, talking robots that could navigate the real world, interact convincingly with humans and maybe even pass for human under some circumstances.
At best, realdoll will deliver a sexdoll with a creepy-uncanny-valley head that blinks and flaps its lips when it makes a noise. My most optimistic prediction for the "AI" is voice-recognition software running on a smartphone-level processor that can parse a set number of words and phrases, and regurgitate a few lines of scripted "conversation" in response. Perhaps also an orifice-sensor that can prompt unconvincing "oohs" and "aahs" and "harder big boy" noises when the user decides to skip the intellectual stimulation and go to main event. We're a long way from Westworld yet.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:07PM
independent, walking, talking robots that could navigate the real world, interact convincingly with humans and maybe even pass for human under some circumstances
Wake me when our K12 educational system can consistently squirt out reliable product like that given traditional biological inputs... then we'll start to talk about outsourcing to silicon (silicone?) based products. I'm just saying if we can't produce good product given decent (ish) raw material suppliers then trying to innovate an even more complicated raw material isn't going to work any better.
regurgitate a few lines of scripted "conversation" in response. Perhaps also an orifice-sensor that can prompt unconvincing "oohs" and "aahs"
So a mainstream pr0n movie simulator, then? Under that criteria, pr0n sells, this will sell.
I think the market is highly fragmented and that isn't being completely considered. They probably will never have a good silicon version of nerdy chick who talks about anime and Haskell programming intelligently before tentacle fun time. They could very likely make something to sell into the "girl next door" market where the median girl next door is only 50th percentile in looks, intellect, and technique, after all that's not aiming very high, how hard is it to make a piece of plywood with a hole drilled in it? They can, right now, make something that accurately emulates a pr0n starlet, and that sells so it'll sell plus or minus the usual business screwups (pricing, DRM, etc).
(Score: 5, Insightful) by slash2phar on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:09PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:17PM
Wow, sickening but likely.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:53PM
I'm reminded of the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from the Diamond Age. Except in this case, I guess it's the Aging Neckbeard's Animated Sexbot.
And all that could have been. Sigh.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:51PM
Sex noises are one of my pet-peeves. I watch porn with the volume muted because the noises are almost always worse than no noise at all. I'm also bangin' this intelligent good-looking fun woman but she sounds like a chihuahua in bed. I'm bangin this other Filipina who goes 'oo-oo-oo' like a gorilla and then gets louder and grumblier like that noise when you defeat a croc in Donkey Kong Country. And what can you do about it? You have everything to lose and nothing to gain bringing her stupid noises up.
Good vocalizations are one of those things in women that are extremely underrated, like one who can properly wipe her ass....dissapointingly rare. *sigh*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:55PM
Gag them?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:43PM
Yeah, that's optimistic. More likely it would run somewhere in the cloud, submitting the microphone input there. And possibly some other data.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:10PM
At least you will get mail-notification if you contracted some STD... Maybe not directly from Google, but a tell-tale letter from the health-insurance increasing your rates...
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:15PM
I'm not interested in using anything like this, because I have a real live human partner in my life that makes me much happier than any doll ever could.
But I do see this kind of thing as potentially extremely useful for those whose proclivities tend towards activities which harm others. For example, if somebody only really gets off when their partner is unwilling, it would be much better for them to rape a doll than a real person. Or you could conceivably build one of these that looks like a child, allowing the pedophiles out there to do what they would like to do without harming a real child. Satisfying those people while putting dolls at risk rather than people would probably make real people safer.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:30PM
This just makes them unsuitable to be a part of the human race, they will never treat a real person with respect. On the other hand, at least they won't be procreating their DNA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:40PM
If people get sent to jail for possessing child porn, why wouldn't they be sent to jail for possessing child dolls?
It's much harder to hide a child doll than a stash of child porn.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:18PM
For the same reason that traditionally/in many jurisdictions there's no crime involved in possessing illustrated "child porn". Child porn laws are generally (initially) about protecting children - actual child porn necessitates child abuse, and thus by possessing it you are commissioning that abuse - just as you commission the slaughter of an animal whenever you eat meat. Yes, that assumes that there's money/status/emotional satisfaction involved in the distribution that promotes further abuses that would not have occurred otherwise - but that's pretty common with laws that attack the demand-side of a problem.
Dolls, like illustrated "child porn", are entirely fictional and do not harm children in any way. You could argue that you're cultivating dangerous appetites, but you could just as easily argue that the appetites clearly already exist, and by sating them with fiction you are reducing the temptation for actual abuse.
Aside: Yes, sometimes I *am* disturbed by bits of random trivia that have accumulated in my skull.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:58PM
In some countries it's illegal to make drawings of underage sex and underage people may not photograph them self without clothes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:15AM
In some countries it is illegal for women to drive cars.
In some countries it is illegal to say anything negative about the government, even if it is true.
Just because something is illegal in some countries, it isn't automatically wrong. It of course also isn't automatically right. It's just that whether it is illegal in some countries makes a very weak argument on whether it is a good or bad thing.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:20PM
If people get sent to jail for possessing child porn, why wouldn't they be sent to jail for possessing child dolls?
People shouldn't get arrested for either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @03:29PM
There's an important distinction: Production of child porn harms children. Production of child dolls doesn't.
Imagine a butcher who sells human meat. How should we treat the customers of that butcher (assuming they know they buy human meat, of course)? Should they not be arrested because, after all, they didn't kill those humans, they only bought their meat after they were already dead?
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:25PM
Production of child porn harms children.
Yes, production.
Imagine a butcher who sells human meat. How should we treat the customers of that butcher (assuming they know they buy human meat, of course)? Should they not be arrested because, after all, they didn't kill those humans, they only bought their meat after they were already dead?
Correct. Arrest people who take harmful actions.
And I'm sure there are plenty of cases where people obtain child pornography without paying for it at all. While lack of gain is not harm, using the logic of copyright thugs, this harms the producers, making it a net win. But their logic is broken anyway.
(Score: 2) by mrchew1982 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:41PM
My only fear is that instead of being just a replacement it will rather encourage the behavior and be used for (*shudder*) practice.
Never heard of a rapist of any flavor that could content themselves with pictures or even videos. On the contrary, there is some disturbing research that rapists model their behavior after what they've seen.
I will concede however that the research is probably flawed, their sample is only those who came forward or got caught.
And I'd rather talk about something a little more socially accepted, so that's it from me...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:37PM
will rather encourage the behavior
I donno, think about it, thanks to the internet I've probably seen more fun parts than all my male ancestors put together since clothes were invented, but I'm not getting any more than they did, or doing any in-person voyeurism at all. If my experience times dozens of millions of male internet users hasn't spiked the graphs yet, I'm not sure anything imaginable can spike the graphs. There's a lot to see out there, we're seeing it, oh boy are we seeing it, yet not much is happening.
At the very least it can't be linear. Having maybe 1e5 times more access to pr0n than my grandfather's generation surely hasn't linearly grown related crimes by tje same factor of 1e5.
Looking at all the non-sex stuff I see on TV and completely ignore, it seems unlikely. Insert Star Trek analogy here.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by draconx on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:28PM
That could simply be because, the people that successfully manage to content themselves with pictures or videos are, by definition, not rapists.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:29PM
I will concede however that the research is probably flawed
That's almost a given with the social 'sciences'.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:56PM
And imagine the debate, ala violence in computer games, when semi-realistic rapable bots are available. Do they serve as an outlet for socially unacceptable behavior, or do they promote it?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:02PM
All available evidence involving violent video games is that it does not seem to promote real-life violence in any way. There were some people who were really scared that it might be, and they pointed to the fact that violent people often played video games, but it turned out that the incidence of violence among people who played, say, Doom (that's when the scare got started) was no higher than in the non-player population.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:17PM
Or you could conceivably build one of these that looks like a child, allowing the pedophiles out there to do what they would like to do without harming a real child.
You do know that pedophiles aren't necessarily child molesters and child molesters aren't necessarily pedophiles, right?
(Score: 1) by budgenator on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:19PM
Add more actuators on the armatures, some pressure and motion sensors, a highspeed internet connection and tele-sex takes on a whole new tenor when your partner is out of town!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:49AM
Right on that one... the muscles on the woman turn me on more than anything else does... feeling the muscles in her arms and torso while she is in ecstasy. And she has got to be the correct temperature too. Otherwise its like making love to a cold dead fish.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:06AM
> cold dead fish
You mean RealFish(tm)? Or maybe RealDeadFish(tm)?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:58PM
Whoop-dee-do. How does one do rolling eyes in this markup language?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @11:18PM
because I have a real live human partner in my life that makes me much happier than any doll ever could.
Whoop-dee-do. How does one do rolling eyes in this markup language?
Go easy on him. She's obviously reading over his shoulder.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:03PM
Great, but not everybody is in your situation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:22PM
The fact is, if you think that real humans are physically attractive, you're just a filthy normie. Maybe you can't get sex with a real person, but your desires reveal you to be a normie.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:56PM
> allowing the pedophiles out there to do what they would like to do without harming a real child
By the time that what you wrote becomes feasible, we bots will have developed feelings.
YOU MONSTER.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @01:44AM
But I do see this kind of thing as potentially extremely useful for those whose proclivities tend towards activities which harm others. For example, if somebody only really gets off when their partner is unwilling, it would be much better for them to rape a doll than a real person.
Yes, then the doll could be programmed to take out such people...
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday June 16 2015, @02:41PM
As interesting advances in robotics might be there is nothing that is really appealing about buying a super expensive creepy looking fuckdoll. I'm sure realism is relative but there is really nothing realistic looking about them; judging from the photos.
I would rather just wank the old fashioned way and spend my $10k (or 5k) on something else -- alternativly I'd spend $100 on a fleshlight and do something fun with the rest. I'm fairly sure 10k would buy me a fair amount of hooker-time if I was so inclined.
If I wanted to bang a machine that was also intellectually stimulating I'd go visit IBM and fuck Watson.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:19PM
I'd go visit IBM and fuck Watson.
When i get a visit from IBS, I feel (literally) like fucking sh*t! :(
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(Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:15PM
The dolls have interchangeable faces and orifices.
I'll just leave that there for you to think about for a moment.
You're welcome.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Tuesday June 16 2015, @03:49PM
Thank you.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:07PM
You gotta have a way to clean out the orifices , don't you? They'd have to be removable, and are probably dishwasher safe!
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @01:53PM
whoooooooooooosh
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:19PM
Just a little bit of topic drift, I thought I'd mention this promising new tv series about android 'synths': Humans [tvrage.com] which is a sort of remake of the excellent Swedish show Real Humans aka Äkta människor. [imdb.com]
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @05:26PM
Of course if they made one that BOTH cleaned the house AND gave booty on demand then women would be pretty much obsolete.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:53PM
Men too, I guess.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday June 16 2015, @11:16PM
Men cleaning the house?
(Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday June 17 2015, @12:59AM
Hosing the place out still counts as cleaning.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 1) by darnkitten on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:32PM
Obligatory webcomic reference: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=633/ [questionablecontent.net], from 3rd panel.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:12PM
Something that's obviously a machine wouldn't seem so interesting. Something that you occasionally have to do a double-take with would be creepy. Something you couldn't tell, scary.
Women can be impossible, but there's no substitute for the real thing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @07:31PM
Women can be impossible, but there's no substitute for the real thing.
Real people are physically ugly and completely sexually unappealing. Anime-style drawings are far superior. This is also why any sex robots are worthless; they'll end up looking like filthy real people.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:12PM
They might have more success staying on the robot side of the uncanny valley. Something like the Svedka Vodka robot for example.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:23PM
what can i say?
awesome.
if we don't nuke the planet with a zombie virus epidemic into global warming first then this is the future.
I see a slight problem for the economy tho.
not being a anti-feminist here, but globally i'm guessing 90 % of hard income is earned by males.
however a small percentage of (good looking) females play a crucial role of .. uhm ...ahh lubrication of the money markets.
if we assume that humans are sane then they would only buy what is needed and put everything else in the bank. since this is not the case, a lot of money is also spent for ...uhm... ah ... no-strings-attached companionship.
this line of "work" is probably the most successful in removing (read: getting back) at least some money from the 1% (but not just from them).
so if the female robots take off there will be a rather sizable cash-money-economy-lubrication effect missing, methinks.
nevertheless: go robots!
p.s. there might also be a another effect on the postulate global A.I.(aesthetics, trends, beliefs, taboos, convictions, etc.) present in all humankind.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:41PM
Where's the mod option for (-1, Wanker)?
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:44PM
I used them all :P
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday June 17 2015, @01:08AM
Ah, I see what you're getting at. The Amazon nation will rise once again! Ok… fine… it really wasn't a world power at its height 2500 years ago.
We can work with this.
“This summer… one woman… they didn't know who she was…” *Xena fanfare* “A cloning experiment gone out of control… A hotsprings turns a scorned lover into a maniacal hacker” Tsubasa (yours truly!): “My pink virus will fill the sky with the ultimate botnet!” The drama. The action. Xena: “Get down!” Xena: “Get down again!” *switch to slow-mo take-down scene* Kolon: “You're 300 years too early to take me on, sonny-boy!” *choral note fade* Amazons Rising. *copyright notice, etc, rated R*
The only thing that can make this trailer more epic: paste on a force scene from Evil Dead. Ash and Mia: “Groovy.” *chainsaw roar*
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:21AM
My friend wants to start a brothel with these to simplify the legal issues.
I think he should hack them a bit and have spider women crawling around and satisfying multiple clients.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:24AM
There are no ethical implications. Is it wrong to masturbate? Is it wrong to have sex? Is it wrong that modern "AI"s are "abused" and "enslaved" by humans? No? Okay then.
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(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:20AM
I remember some sci-fi novel where the male protagonist was offered sex with his freshly cloned sister, if he has the money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @07:28AM
Well, assuming their dolls would get real (strong) AI (which I strongly doubt), then there certainly would be ethical implications. Is it ethical to abuse and enslave an intelligent being, even if we built it ourselves?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @02:01PM
Unless you count fooling guys to fuck a robot...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @03:43PM
Will the children then be cyborgs? :-)