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Millennials have become a growing force in society. Compared to their predecessors, the generation that grew with the Internet and electronic devices is considered more adept at adapting to new ideas and more open-minded regarding the unconventional. When it comes to Millennial relationships, online dating is a rapid-growing industry, with more than 1500 dating apps and websites operating around the world. According to Statista, online dating industry revenues reached US1.66 billion in 2019 and are expected to continue growing at an annual rate of 4.2 percent until 2023. Instead of having users simply swipe through headshots, many new dating apps and online platforms are leveraging artificial intelligence to introduce a variety of novel approaches to smart matchmaking. AI Personal Love Coach – Lara by Match An online dating pioneer,  Match.com  has closely followed the AI trend. The company’s “Lara” is an AI dating chatbot designed to help users loca...

Japan has a massive problem with loneliness. Almost 70% of unmarried men and 60% of unmarried women aged 18-34 are not in any form of relationship with the opposite sex (Source: National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan). Over the past years this relationship crisis has spurred a new multimillion-dollar virtual romance industry, which primarily aims to fill this emotional void through technology. At the forefront of this new industry stands a company called Gatebox, a company selling a digital assistant, powered by AI, which aims to be a pseudo-girlfriend. The device can be linked to your smartphone, making it possible to create a sense of relationship. It even sends you messages, when you are at work, like “come back home”. In the western world, many will laugh about this vision, but more and more people actually sign up for this or similar services. It allows them to retreat from human relationships into a fantasy of submission and titillation. Thi...

This weeks article explores serious underlying topics to society, on how AI based “sex-bots” may be affecting the human society and relationships and the view towards the opposite sex. The news is brought to us by Phys Org. by Judy Illes And Farhad R. Udwadia, The Conversation As AI and robotics advance and produce more lifelike sex robots, there is the potential for an increase in gender-based violence. Credit: Shutterstock Sex robots made headlines after American comedian Whitney Cummings brought out her very own lookalike robot for her Netflix special called Can I Touch It? RealBotix, the company that made Cummings' robot, says that since the special, there has been a wave of demand for their robots . Sex robots have been in demand for quite some time. The sex toy industry is one of the fastest growing industries of the 21st century, with an estimated net worth of $30 billion . Over 40 percent of men who participated in an online survey said they could im...

Welcome back to to Artifici(Al)ove, today we are going to investigate something that may sound foreign to you, that may also make you feel uncomfortable just by visualizing it. Today we are talking about the up and coming emergence of lifelike AI dolls and the attraction to this phenomenon.  From the famous tag line of the 1972 science fiction western thriller Westworld, “boy, do we have a vacation for you”, a world to live out your craziest fantasies minus the “human” repercussions is born. The movie takes place in a fantastical world where people can pay to interact in everyday environments with a catch, its run by androids who quiescently look indistinguishable to human beings. As the movie states “for a small payment you can live out your wildest dreams.” Now this may seem far-fetched, but the underlining message of non-human interplay is not far from what we are experiencing today. The mix of AI and human like dolls is allowing the fantastical Westworld fantasy to b...

This section of the blog is going to be brought to you every tuesday, highlighting some of the news which interested “us” in the recent times. Today's piece comes from Wired. The original link can be found down below. Enjoy! Flirty or Friendzone? New AI Scans Your Texts for True Love A new class of apps can use machine intelligence to determine if your text conversations are imbued with hidden romantic sparks. PHOTOGRAPH: SAM MELLISH/IN PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES Every good love story has a moment in which the precious ingénue, blind to the complexities of the world, misinterprets the lover's move. Sally mistakes Harry's interest for friendship. Romeo, believing Juliet to be dead, poisons himself. The folly of love is not so much about what we do when we are flooded with feelings, but what can happen when we have incomplete data. This is perhaps why a crop of new apps have arrived, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence , to offer relationship a...