Can we really have relationships with a tpe love doll?
If so, what about robots? Computerized chat-bots, such as the “personal assistants” Siri and Cortana, already exist which can remember many of their owner’s likes and dislikes, and respond helpfully to their questions, recognizing their individual voice and accent.
The silky computer-seal, Paro, can’t use language (yet), but it can make affecting eye-contact with the person cuddling it and appears to enjoy being stroked.
In the near future, so we’re told by the manufacturers of “computer carers,” the residents of old people’s homes will find solace and companionship, and endless opportunities for satisfying conversation, with robots (or screen-based AI systems) using natural language. These will be able to discuss their fondest memories, as well as their most trivial everyday irritations.
As for the sex-doll equivalents, I leave it to you to imagine the increasingly lifelike (and huskily speaking) robots that are being researched/marketed around the world. (Siri and Cortana are already being engaged in sexually explicit interchanges—sometimes, almost 300 times a day—by lonely male users.) The sexual gizmos of the future are described by their supporters as offering not only “sex” but also “love.”
Sex-with- Big Chest Sex Doll is certainly possible, and perhaps no more distasteful than other types of impersonal sex. But love-with-robots? Personal love (which is not at all the same thing as lust, or sexual titillation either) is a complex relationship between two people who each have their own motives, goals, and preferences but who each respect the other’s interests and also adapt them to some extent—even, sometimes, putting them first. That involves a significant degree of cognitive-emotional (computational) complexity on both sides. The sex-dolls anticipated so eagerly by the porn-market have not even the beginnings of such complexity.
Nor do the personal assistants or chatbots destined for use in old people’s homes. Unlike dogs (with whom we can have genuine, although not fully personal, relationships), they have no interests whatever. If a natural-language-using gizmo were enabled to say, from time to time, “I want this”, or “I’d be upset by that”, the human user wouldn’t take it seriously.
Or anyway, they shouldn’t take it seriously. But perhaps, if they were already in the early stages of dementia, they would. And perhaps they would alter their own behavior accordingly. They might even gain some satisfaction from doing so, feeling that they had “done the right thing” by their gizmo-friend. But if so, they would be deeply misled—not to say betrayed by those who put them in that position. And if they looked to it for genuine attention and concern with regard to their own interests and problems, they would be horribly disappointed.
BBW sex doll
In other words, the “conversations” that human beings could hold with such computer artifacts would not be genuine conversations. There wouldn’t be any meeting of minds here—not even in the sense of hostile disagreements. There would be engagement, yes. But engagement at a very shallow level: taking up time, effort, and concentration, and maybe attended by hope or dismay. But the hope and dismay would be all on the side of the person. The chat-bot can know nothing of this.
How I fell in love with my sex doll
A Japanese man fell in love with his Japanese sex doll but swears he’s no dummy.
Senji Nakajima, 61, of Tokyo, says he got so fed-up with complicated human relationships that he coupled off with a life-sized rubber doll to avoid heartache.
“She never betrays,” Nakajima said. “I’m tired of modern, rational humans. They are heartless.”
The married father of two bathes the shemale sex doll, who is named Saori, takes her shopping and sleeps next to “her” every night.
“For me, she is more than a doll,” said Nakajima, who first shacked up with Saori six years ago. “Not just a silicon rubber. She needs much help, but still is my perfect partner who shares precious moments with me and enriches my life.”
At first, he just used her for sex while he lived away from his wife. But the relationship soon blossomed into a full-blown rubber romance.
Nakajima started spending more time with his pretty plastic partner, taking her on long walks in a wheelchair and wooing her with some admittedly one-sided pillow talk.
Now he loves her so much that he’s ready to swear off flesh-and-blood companionship for good. He dresses Saori in wigs, lacy gowns and jewelry, and even claims she has a personality.
Nakajima also enjoys watching TV with the doll and isn’t embarrassed to take her out on the town.
Makers of dolls like Saori boast that they’re so lifelike, men who buy them will never want a real girlfriend again.
The dolls, which are not inflatable, go for roughly $4,000 a pop.
There are more than 50 brands of the dolls for sale in Asia, where the market for sex dolls is booming.
The silky computer-seal, Paro, can’t use language (yet), but it can make affecting eye-contact with the person cuddling it and appears to enjoy being stroked.
In the near future, so we’re told by the manufacturers of “computer carers,” the residents of old people’s homes will find solace and companionship, and endless opportunities for satisfying conversation, with robots (or screen-based AI systems) using natural language. These will be able to discuss their fondest memories, as well as their most trivial everyday irritations.
As for the sex-doll equivalents, I leave it to you to imagine the increasingly lifelike (and huskily speaking) robots that are being researched/marketed around the world. (Siri and Cortana are already being engaged in sexually explicit interchanges—sometimes, almost 300 times a day—by lonely male users.) The sexual gizmos of the future are described by their supporters as offering not only “sex” but also “love.”
Sex-with- Big Chest Sex Doll is certainly possible, and perhaps no more distasteful than other types of impersonal sex. But love-with-robots? Personal love (which is not at all the same thing as lust, or sexual titillation either) is a complex relationship between two people who each have their own motives, goals, and preferences but who each respect the other’s interests and also adapt them to some extent—even, sometimes, putting them first. That involves a significant degree of cognitive-emotional (computational) complexity on both sides. The sex-dolls anticipated so eagerly by the porn-market have not even the beginnings of such complexity.
Nor do the personal assistants or chatbots destined for use in old people’s homes. Unlike dogs (with whom we can have genuine, although not fully personal, relationships), they have no interests whatever. If a natural-language-using gizmo were enabled to say, from time to time, “I want this”, or “I’d be upset by that”, the human user wouldn’t take it seriously.
Or anyway, they shouldn’t take it seriously. But perhaps, if they were already in the early stages of dementia, they would. And perhaps they would alter their own behavior accordingly. They might even gain some satisfaction from doing so, feeling that they had “done the right thing” by their gizmo-friend. But if so, they would be deeply misled—not to say betrayed by those who put them in that position. And if they looked to it for genuine attention and concern with regard to their own interests and problems, they would be horribly disappointed.
BBW sex doll
In other words, the “conversations” that human beings could hold with such computer artifacts would not be genuine conversations. There wouldn’t be any meeting of minds here—not even in the sense of hostile disagreements. There would be engagement, yes. But engagement at a very shallow level: taking up time, effort, and concentration, and maybe attended by hope or dismay. But the hope and dismay would be all on the side of the person. The chat-bot can know nothing of this.
How I fell in love with my sex doll
A Japanese man fell in love with his Japanese sex doll but swears he’s no dummy.
Senji Nakajima, 61, of Tokyo, says he got so fed-up with complicated human relationships that he coupled off with a life-sized rubber doll to avoid heartache.
“She never betrays,” Nakajima said. “I’m tired of modern, rational humans. They are heartless.”
The married father of two bathes the shemale sex doll, who is named Saori, takes her shopping and sleeps next to “her” every night.
“For me, she is more than a doll,” said Nakajima, who first shacked up with Saori six years ago. “Not just a silicon rubber. She needs much help, but still is my perfect partner who shares precious moments with me and enriches my life.”
At first, he just used her for sex while he lived away from his wife. But the relationship soon blossomed into a full-blown rubber romance.
Nakajima started spending more time with his pretty plastic partner, taking her on long walks in a wheelchair and wooing her with some admittedly one-sided pillow talk.
Now he loves her so much that he’s ready to swear off flesh-and-blood companionship for good. He dresses Saori in wigs, lacy gowns and jewelry, and even claims she has a personality.
Nakajima also enjoys watching TV with the doll and isn’t embarrassed to take her out on the town.
Makers of dolls like Saori boast that they’re so lifelike, men who buy them will never want a real girlfriend again.
The dolls, which are not inflatable, go for roughly $4,000 a pop.
There are more than 50 brands of the dolls for sale in Asia, where the market for sex dolls is booming.
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