THE SEXBOTS ARE COMING. (sexual sexbot system)

Well, not literally, not yet anyway — but that’ll be happening soon enough with further advances in the fields of robotics. And artificial intelligence to the point that you will no longer be able to distinguish whether or not your sexbot. Was having an actual simulated orgasm or just faking it. (sexual sexbot system)

For those of you who haven’t made it past first base in the world of sexual machines and are asking, “Sexbot? What is this sexbot?” let me explain as clearly and smoothly as possible.

A “sexbot” is a robot that is designed for human sexual intercourse. It is a machine designed for sexual and physical stimulation. If this sounds a little mechanical and crass, that’s because it is. Having said that, a significant aspect of human sexual intercourse is mechanical — so much so that prescribing tool analogies to our descriptions of it have entered our popular cultural lexicon. But please don’t drill me on the specifics.

While there are deeply emotional, psychological, and spiritual dimensions to human sexuality. It is, at its core, a very physical activity. Most of us were forged in the crucible of that act. Except for the small percentage (about 2 percent in the U.S.) of embryos conceived using in vitro fertilization. (sexual sexbot system)

My goal here is not to pass judgment on people’s sex lives, preferences, or fetishes, or to wade.
Into the quagmire that is a sexual morality debate. I’m not a philosopher or a sex therapist; I’m a technologist.
It is my responsibility as a technologist to inform you that sexbots are a rapidly developing technology.
This will have far-reaching consequences for the future of human sexual relations.
With the incorporation of more lifelike robots into the fabric of everyday human life. (sexual sexbot system)

In the Shadow of the Uncanny Valley

Sexbots are becoming increasingly complex technologies that combine robotics and artificial intelligence advances. They are currently primitive, but this is rapidly changing.”Harmony,” created by RealDoll, is the most advanced sexbot on the market today. When she speaks, her lips move, her eyes blink, and her head tilts.
It’s a little creepy to watch, and it transports most people somewhere. In robotics, this is known as the “uncanny valley.” (sexual sexbot system)

The term “uncanny valley” is used by roboticists to describe the unsettling sensation that people can have.
When they come across an android (a humanoid robot) that looks like a human but isn’t convincingly realistic.
The x-axis for “human likeness” and the y-axis for “familiarity” can be used to graph a human’s reaction to an android. (sexual sexbot system)

The uncanny valley is the deep trough created on that graph as human likeness and familiarity. Bottom out with “zombies” and then climbs toward 100 percent with increasingly life-like androids.

According to techtarget.com, “The uncanny valley is named for the way the viewer’s level of comfort drops. As a simulation approaches but does not reach, verisimilitude.”

Harmony’s AI robotic head is attached to a synthetic replica of a female body that can be custom designed. (Yes, there are anatomically male sexbots too, but female replicas are more popular.) Her response modes can be programmed via an accompanying smartphone app, enabling the most recent version of Harmony to utilize built-in sensors to respond to movement and touch with unique sounds and expressions.

“Does it make you sad about potentially replacing human relationships with a robot partner instead?” Katie Couric asked RealDoll founder and CEO, Matt McMullen, in a 2018 ABC interview.

“It’ll never happen,” McMullen said confidently. “It’s an alternative, not a replacement. It’s different.”

Different indeed but it’s going to make a difference. (sexual sexbot system)

Hacking Our Limbic System

When technology is introduced into human culture, it alters it.
Human culture is a system, and when you change a variable in a system, you change the input.
You can change the output by changing the input. That is how systems work. These outputs are sometimes known and expected. Other times, they are unknown and have unanticipated secondary and tertiary effects.

We have introduced a variable into the system of human culture with the technology of sexbots, which taps into the very core of our limbic system, which runs our deepest and oldest programming.
We’re using our higher functioning cortex system to create sexbots, a technology that hacks human sexuality, which could have unintended consequences. (sexual sexbot system)

For example, perhaps the human race will not become extinct as a result of a sudden and fantastic disaster such as nuclear war or an errant asteroid crashing into Earth. Maybe we’ll just self-select our extinction by not reproducing because we’ve stopped having sex with other humans and are instead having sex with advanced AI robots that have climbed their way out of the uncanny valley and into our beds. (sexual sexbot system)