What happens when it’s not a human bringing on the heartache, but an AI-powered app? That’s a question a great many users of the Replika AI are crying about this month.
It started with humans pushing machines’ buttons. Now they are pushing ours. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent so many people into work-from-home isolation, it funneled much of our social interaction onto the internet. Children learn via Zoom classrooms, colleagues meet on Microsoft…
Talks and Events Sydney Writers Festival – Curiosity Lecture May 2021 – Listen Here (29 minutes) Television and Video ABC The Drum – Friday 21 May 2021. Channel 7 – The Morning Show – Had fun talking Artificial Intimacy with…
Some of the ways AI is hijacking our emotional lives What happens when our evolved human minds and old-fashioned cultures encounter the technologies of the 21st Century? Specifically, I mean virtual reality, robotics, and — most important — artificial intelligence.…
What happens when computers know people better than they know themselves? Science is an algorithm. To date, it might well be the most effective and useful algorithm — or family of algorithms — that humanity ever invented. Ever-improving methods for…
The tingles that birthed an intimate art form could let technology under our skin
Sex robots, according to breathless media reports, are coming. Or, if not, then they are certainly on their way. Robotic androids and gynoids, animated by the 21st Century sorcery of artificial intelligence, stand ready to slide between the sheets and make themselves…
Evidence that quitting Facebook for four weeks delivers long-term benefits. This article was originally published on OneZero at Medium. My screen time was up last week. Again. Along with much of humanity, staying home to avoid the coronavirus has me…
I find myself thinking a lot about sex robots these days. In this, I am far from alone. Over the last few years, the dolls and toys that people keep in the very darkest recesses of their closets have found…