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ABC News has an article from the Adult Entertainment Expo, with a report on the world's most advanced AI 'Sexbot'. According to the maker's site, she "can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend. She can talk to you, listen to you and feel your touch." All important things in a lover.
When I read about it, my thoughts went a bit like this:
“The most advanced AI and we make a sexbot with it? Sheesh, my species sucks at being intelligent.”
“But then... the only times we really excel and push ourselves is for sex and war. At least it isn't killing people.”
“Huh, huh-huh... Sexbot... huh-huh...”
And that's when I tweeted about it. Yeah... I'm guilty of bringing down the tone on Twitter. Sorry about that.
It raises an awful lot of interesting questions, the sexbot. If men and women don't feel the need to have sex with each other, will they feel the need to interact at all?
If a man wants sex, is it so bad to give it to him? If we remove this primal drive we're always fighting with to get our end away, will men start to see woman as people first instead of sex objects? Will that mean an end to the culture of exploiting women's sexuality to make a buck?
If sex becomes like a Burger King burger--your way, when you want it--will sex between human beings become better? Freed from the burden of basic satisfaction, will people start to treat sex like the art form it should be? I mean, I've said for a while that if you remove the necessity of something, you'll rediscover the art. Just look at what gourmet chiefs have produced now we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.
Or will this just perpetuate and entrench the 'my way, my terms, fuck you' culture that's consuming us as a society at the moment?
Would I buy one, if I could afford it? How long before they can make ones for those that like men? Would my partner and myself end up with our own sexbots that we used whenever we felt a bit horny, and spend our evenings intellectual discourse with each other? Or would we just never talk to each other again? And, if we did never talk to each other again, then that kind of means the only reason we're in a relationship is for the sex... that can't be a good thing, can it?
You know, maybe I should buy half-a-dozen and open up a brothel. It would mean there's less demand for human prostitutes, which has got to be a good thing, right? Mind you, imagine being a species that evolved from sex toys. Going to church to sing hymns to the Great Pimp in the Sky...
When I read about it, my thoughts went a bit like this:
“The most advanced AI and we make a sexbot with it? Sheesh, my species sucks at being intelligent.”
“But then... the only times we really excel and push ourselves is for sex and war. At least it isn't killing people.”
“Huh, huh-huh... Sexbot... huh-huh...”
And that's when I tweeted about it. Yeah... I'm guilty of bringing down the tone on Twitter. Sorry about that.
It raises an awful lot of interesting questions, the sexbot. If men and women don't feel the need to have sex with each other, will they feel the need to interact at all?
If a man wants sex, is it so bad to give it to him? If we remove this primal drive we're always fighting with to get our end away, will men start to see woman as people first instead of sex objects? Will that mean an end to the culture of exploiting women's sexuality to make a buck?
If sex becomes like a Burger King burger--your way, when you want it--will sex between human beings become better? Freed from the burden of basic satisfaction, will people start to treat sex like the art form it should be? I mean, I've said for a while that if you remove the necessity of something, you'll rediscover the art. Just look at what gourmet chiefs have produced now we don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.
Or will this just perpetuate and entrench the 'my way, my terms, fuck you' culture that's consuming us as a society at the moment?
Would I buy one, if I could afford it? How long before they can make ones for those that like men? Would my partner and myself end up with our own sexbots that we used whenever we felt a bit horny, and spend our evenings intellectual discourse with each other? Or would we just never talk to each other again? And, if we did never talk to each other again, then that kind of means the only reason we're in a relationship is for the sex... that can't be a good thing, can it?
You know, maybe I should buy half-a-dozen and open up a brothel. It would mean there's less demand for human prostitutes, which has got to be a good thing, right? Mind you, imagine being a species that evolved from sex toys. Going to church to sing hymns to the Great Pimp in the Sky...
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I have three million answers to this. Ask me over a pint somewhen!
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