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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?
Original Submission
(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*