RealDoll CEO Aims To Make Its Sex Dolls Love You Back Via AI App (mirror.co.uk) 201
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mirror.co.uk: Matt McMullen, CEO of RealDoll, revealed the next step in making the high-end sex toys will be to give them artificial intelligence to replicate humans more closely than ever. "We are building an AI system which can either be connected to a robotic doll OR experienced in a VR environment," he revealed as part of an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. "I think it will allow for an option that never existed before, and for some, may represent a happiness they [users] never thought they could have. We are designing the AI to be fun and engaging, more than focusing on whether it can fool you into thinking it's a person," he said. He later added, when someone asked if dolls will ever love us back: "I hope that we can at least simulate that," McMullen responded. "That's the goal." In addition to AI and VR, Teledildonics are coming to the sex industry as well. "Teledildonics is technology for remote sex where tactile sensations are communicated over a data link between the participants -- with Siri, Alexa, Cortana and other AI software," reports Mirror.co.uk. The company is "putting the finishing touches" on its AI app, with plans to release it within the next six months. Oh, and it's also working on releasing a RealDoll with a robotic head by the end of 2017 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Hey Siri... (Score:3)
...I'm going to like this sirrigate.
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What I Want To Know: (Score:3)
When will the RealDoll start driving for Uber?
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2017, apparently!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... [bloomberg.com]
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Hail a JoniCab! We have to get to da choppa!
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How about a RealDoll as the President of the United States . . . ?
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I'm fairly sure the most searched term Cortana relayed was something along the lines "How the fuck do you turn that shit off?"
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1001001
WIth RiPo... (Score:3)
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Hot boinky, then back in the box (Score:4, Insightful)
That's all I want from a "love doll"- one that "loves" me enough to boink my brains out and then climb back into her box.
Re:Hot boinky, then back in the box (Score:5, Funny)
This may cut into the market for Slovenian "supermodels".
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Maybe hose itself off first. And change the bedsheets. And maybe start the laundry. Like some kind of sex-bot/roomba hybrid. Maybe a roomba with blowjob attachment?
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Like some kind of sex-bot/roomba hybrid. Maybe a roomba with blowjob attachment?
You just gave me the GREATEST idea for a Kickstarter.
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Where's a link to the Futurama informational video on why sex bots are bad when you need it?
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https://vimeo.com/12915013 [vimeo.com]
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If the majority of us are lucky, a tiny destructive majority can get their jollies raping and abusing their under age bots (royalty, billionaires, politicians, Hollywood celebrities and the odd lesser criminal) and leave the rest of us right out of their mess, cough, cough, whilst peacefully masturbating ;D (this being the apparent truth, as I find out years ago on women's forums, why married men spend so long in the toilet and married women spend so long in the shower, being a single male I was curious as
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I'm pretty sure royalty, billionaires, politicians and Hollywood celebrities are using real underage kids.
You'd be right, just look at pedo island and the number of politicians, billionaires, and so on went there.
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royalty, billionaires, politicians, Hollywood celebrities
Realdolls start at $5500. You don't need to be royalty or a billionaire to afford one. Even for a man of modest means, a Realdoll is going to be cheaper than a real GF.
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Yes, but their tears are so fake. And when you see the white in their eyes it's time to empty them again, you pig!
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I always thought Furries and Bronies would rather want to BE some sort of genetically engineered freak.
Hope they share the technology . . . (Score:3)
forget about self-driving cars (Score:5, Funny)
FBI, NSA, Google, FSB, IRS... (Score:2)
Not tonight dear (Score:5, Funny)
I have a low battery.
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These dolls are EXPENSIVE (Score:1)
Re:These dolls are EXPENSIVE (Score:4, Funny)
Yes. They are called pre-divorce guys.
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Yes, I used to know someone who bought one. He had to sell his massive collection of female-only action figures to afford it, though.
Re: These dolls are EXPENSIVE (Score:2)
Re:These dolls are EXPENSIVE (Score:5, Insightful)
Are there really that many losers with an extra 10 grand running around who are willing to buy these things?
$10K for a fake GF is cheap compared to the cost of a real one.
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I imagine there will be a uber-like doll-sharing service that crops up real soon now.
I think those already exist. The Realdolls have removable vaginas, so you can have your own "private part" and share the main doll. The vaginal inserts only cost about $150.
This will go well... (Score:5, Funny)
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Please enter your credit card number to restore love level #5
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I can see this getting banned in Asia for this exact reason.
People starving to death because they spent all their money on a Love-doll AI subscription, or committing suicide because they can't afford the subscription anymore.
Remember, this is the same part of the world where lonely men end up falling in love with (and in some cases, marrying) video game characters and inanimate objects.
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A friend of mine is married to an inanimate object. Ok, at one point she could still move, but that's a thing of the past.
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That's something that has been covered in literature many times. When you have a machine that is the perfect husband/wife/sex slave, which never argues unless you want it to argue with you, which puts up with pretty much anything...
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Aside from any zOMG Society!!! questions, they are taking on a game-balance issue: people get frustrated when they lose; but get bored of winning if you don't provide the convincing illusion of a challenge. As long as you are just building sex toys, that's not a problem; but it will be trickier to impress people with 'love' that they know has nothing to do with them. Unconditional love is handy because yo
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It's worth doing some reading on porn addiction. Like all addictions it's chasing that feeling, which leads to ever more consumption of ever stronger material.
It also creates image problems. There was some discussion on the BBC recently, where they had some stats showing that public hair removal is now pretty much the norm among university age women and very popular with men, with natural hair being openly mocked and described as "gross" and "disgusting". Mainly because in porn, shaving is almost universal.
IoRCPGT (Score:5, Funny)
The Internet of Remote-Controlled Penis-Grasping Things.
No thanks.
And... (Score:1, Interesting)
half of the lonely nerds on /. just got REALLY excited... ;-)
Yes, but Will It Be GPL? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm doing NOTHING if I can't review the SOURCE CODE!
Re:Yes, but Will It Be GPL? (Score:5, Funny)
> I'm doing NOTHING if I can't review the SOURCE CODE!
Come on, give it a chance. The last fifty years should have shown you one thing clearly: nothing else can fuck you like closed source software.
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Probably true, but I prefer to be top, not bottom.
Stranger (Score:2)
Man this world just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
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new meaning to "have you tried turning it off (Score:1)
then turning it on again. "
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Well, I tried discussing the finer details of having anal sex with small reptiles and that turned her off, but nothing I do will turn her back on.
A scene from not so distant future. (Score:3)
You: hey, let's make love!
A real doll with AI: not tonight, honey. I'm working on proving the Riemann's conjecture.
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Oh c'mon sweetheart, you can do that while I shag you. I only need your body, you can keep your AI busy with Riemann. And I won't even complain about you thinking of another guy while you sleep with me.
A doll that texts you at work (Score:4, Funny)
every 5 minutes:
"Do you miss me?"
"When are you coming home?"
"What do you wanna do tonight?"
"Do you still love me?"
"WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME??!!"
Creepy to a next level (Score:2)
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You think people didn't talk to their sex dolls before?
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You think people didn't talk to their sex dolls before?
I must confess I never dared to think about it
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Whatever you do, just remember: When you see the white in her eyes... it's time to empty her out.
WELL PLAYED (Score:5, Funny)
CEO Doll (Score:2)
I shuddered at "RealDoll CEO" . A CEO with three working offices?
Re:CEO Doll (Score:4, Funny)
I shuddered at "RealDoll CEO" . A CEO with three working offices?
I guess you meant "orifices".
This is truly... (Score:1)
This is truly news for nerds. Good job, editors.
For-Pay Teledildonics Violating Prostitution Laws? (Score:2)
In regards to teledildonics, I wonder if paying someone to remotely stimulate your genitals will fall afoul of any prostitution laws. I... heard from a friend... that there are already some services like this, although they're positioned as live webcam services rather than 'telesex'.
Once the novelty wears off, who's going to stay committed to a relationship with a weak AI? Aside from providing sexy banter (repeated lines of dialogue will be a huge boner-kill though) I don't see what the long-term value coul
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who's going to stay committed to a relationship with a weak AI?
I suggest you lookup the term 'waifu'.
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A 555 timer? Ohhh, why did you have to say that... anyone got a towel?
Robots first assignment: view & sort video lib (Score:2)
Now what I am supposed to do with all the porn?
I need a product brochure (Score:2)
I want a Cherry 2000 with a complete manual, parts kit and extended maintence warrentee !!!
Can I get a discount if I want one in each color/hair option ?
AI may become a reality after all (Score:2)
What heterosexual men need to learn ... (Score:2, Interesting)
... is that one of the biggest taboos in our first-world societies is that there is a nigh rampant sexual frustration in women.
In that regard I really don't "get" sex dolls.
Honestly, if you absolutely, positively need to f*ck, there is just about an abundance of decent women around who would be glad to indulge.
Women are promiscous - very often even more so than men. The problem is that in our 1st world society women are very keen on not getting a reputation of being a slut. The evolutionary and old-testamen
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Your post is assuming that men and women are mostly the same except for some societal roles. I think you are wrong because of two things:
1) Women don't cum as easily as men.
2) Women suffer from bad sex more than men (Example: Let's say I have desperate sex with an icky woman, I'll feel bad for an hour and go on. Most women that I know would feel bad for several hours at least, including the "sluts".
1 and 2 encourage women to be more picky.
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Sure, because women only want to be fucked, they don't want to be oral sex'd, the don't want to cum, they just want to be fucked, even it's only for 5 mins.
Are you sure I'm the naive one?
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Many have been rejected hundreds of times before giving up.
Has it ever dawned on them, or anyone else that maybe they're terrible people? Or maybe they just have absolutely no idea how to function around the other gender?
Ow (Score:3)
Futurama! (Score:2)
The Internet of Shit will have a field day (Score:2)
Great for RealDoll (Score:2)
But seriously, the Japanese are WAAAAAY ahead on all of this. First of all, the Japanese dolls are much better looking, much more realistic-looking. Secondly the Japanese are ahead on Robotics, I assume you've seen their Uncanny Valley creepy talking heads.
Now admittedly, RealDoll's effort may advance the whole industry, but the RealDolls look fairly plastic and aren't all that attractive. Silicone is durable, but it doesn't seem to be the material of choice for true doll afficianados.
Not that I know anythi
finally (Score:2)
As long as it doesn't take updates... (Score:2)
Servos, movements, etc.. As long as the "strength" is limited and it doesn't take automatic firmware (huh huhuh hehhuh.. I said FIRM) updates, it might be interesting for those who can't find a relationship (that number of people isn't small). Cost needs to come down.
If it take updates and has a great deal of strength, I can smell hacks that injure people already. Heheh huhhh.. I said smell.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH^^
Mod this UP!! It's true but funny.
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Re:All I want to know (Score:4, Funny)
LOVE ME!
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini... [pinimg.com]
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Re:Get a life (Score:4, Interesting)
Sex is primal. If you haven't noticed, it's one of the big pillars of society (eating and management of defecation being two others). Since a growing majority of women are being taught that men are scum from kindergarten to college, men are starting to find outlets elsewhere. Why take on the social, legal, and financial risks of having sex in college and, later on, marriage with a 50% failure rate? Of course, it's not a real woman, but $10k is a drop in the bucket compared to those costs. It's interesting that feminists have a problem with this. They claim men are so abusive, so what's the big deal if they go elsewhere? Of course, that's not what feminists really want. They want to control men by retaining control over access to sex. Sex toys circumvent that somewhat. They're not really that concerned about today, they're worried about 20-30 years from now.
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Quite the opposite, it is the answer. And probably cheaper too in the long run.
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What does feminism have to do with women not liking you?
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So settling for something that doesn't satisfy you is ... good? Did I just get that right?
And it does matter whether a girl has slept with someone before you? Why? Are you one of those collector nerds who only gets hard if it's NRFB?
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But, tech nerds are told by feminists that it doesn't matter if a girl has slept with lots of other guys before you.
That's because it doesn't matter. In fact, I prefer a woman who has some experience. Inexperience is okay in High School, but once you're out of college you should know what you're doing between the sheets.
Re:Just don't let them talk... Moaning is ok (Score:5, Funny)
Just make them body temperature, and maybe give them a pulse?
Sure, if you're into that kind of thing.
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+5 Dark Humour
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You already don't. I made one law concerning dates, year ago: Don't fuck with crazy.
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Not SJWs.
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She hates browser games and likes only real ones?
That's my girl!
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In other words, you'd like a sadist who tries to lock you into using Microsoft products.
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Yes, tie me up and call my API functions!
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Not much better than being "free" to use java or flash i suppose.
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Because as we all learned in history class. Northern europeans are native to North America.
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Your hand will no doubt be delighted to learn you intend to be true to her.
As Beyonce says, "Put a ring on it".