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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...