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...