Prediction: Sex Robots Are The Most Disruptive Technology We Didn't See Coming

The sex robot creator:

“I never set out with these specific goals in mind. I simply really enjoy what I'm doing artistically,” says Matt McMullen, CEO of Realbotix and RealDoll and creator of the sex robot, Harmony. “I like building this robot and seeing it move and talk and interact with people, what it does to them. It just opens up Pandora's box of psychology and science”

Will sex robots force us to face our own shortcomings in human relationships?

Depending on your perspective, McMullen is either a cynic or a realist. He takes issue with the idea that human-human relationships are inherently superior to human-machine.

“I don't think this is something that would be a fit for everyone. But I think there are certain people who it would be a perfect fit for. I think there are people who struggled greatly to connect with other people and this is a perfect thing for them. If it makes them happy and fills that empty spot they have, I think that's all that matters. So in one sense, you could say it's going to make things worse. But there are probably a ton of real-world relationships where one partner feels very much in love and the other does not, or the other partner maybe deceives and lies and so you're not getting the real deal anyway. The thing about AI and robots is they're not deceptive. They're not lying. They are what they are. If the AI is programmed to love you, at least you know that it's programmed to do that, it's not going to deviate from that goal.”

”The truth of the matter is that a lot of human relationships are broken and flawed and dysfunctional,” says McMullen. “A lot of people end up with partners that they're not truly happy with because they think that's all they're going to get. And they just settle into this rut. There's so many different ways to look at it, but at the end of the day, I think it boils down to the simple fact of, does this work for this person? The individual in question who finds this happiness with an AI-driven robot, and finds intimacy that they never had with another person–whose job does it become to intervene and say, ‘no, you can't do that. That's not right.’ I think it's one of the biggest human flaws that we try to change each other and we try to take our own worldview and superimpose it on everyone else. Because if we feel a certain way or we've had a certain set of experiences, we feel that everyone should kind of follow that same roadmap. I think there are people out there that may never form human relationships. They may not have the capacity for that...The bottom line is, if the robot, if the AI is making a person feel love, and they really feel it, does it matter if it's real or not?”

eddie wrote:Yeah I’m thinking that if you have to get your kicks or perversions from a robot then you ain’t with the right partner.

nicko wrote:Wonder how many Wolfie's got ?

nicko wrote:

Wonder how many Wolfie's got ?

Victorismyhero wrote:Sex with a robot?????? sounds like my ex

I used to call her the north sea ferry.. roll on, roll off....

Mind you there was no intelligence there......even artificial.