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?
(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.
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(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