Archive for the ‘sex’ category: Page 31
Apr 8, 2016
Will Transhumanism Change Racism in the Future?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, sex, transhumanism
My new article for The Hufffington Post on whether transhumanism will change racism in the near future:
A future transhumanist? — CCO Public Domain
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Apr 6, 2016
Are we 20 years away from ‘designer’ babies?
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, law, sex
What if prospective parents had the opportunity to make decisions ahead of time about the combination of genetic traits their child would inherit? The question is more than science fiction, says Hank Greely, a law professor at Stanford University.
The underlying science and technology are advancing rapidly—and now is the time to consider carefully “what kind of legal changes would be necessary to try to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of this new approach to making babies,” he says.
Greely explored the legal, ethical, and societal implications of emerging biotechnologies for a new book, The End of Sex and The Future of Human Reproduction (Harvard University Press, 2016), that envisions a world where procreation may not start in bedrooms, but rather in a petri dish in a medical clinic.
Mar 24, 2016
Microsoft’s ‘teen girl’ AI turns into a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: robotics/AI, sex
Developers at Microsoft created ‘Tay’, an AI modelled to speak ‘like a teen girl’, in order to improve the customer service on their voice recognition software. They marketed her as ‘The AI with zero chill’ — and that she certainly is.
@icbydt bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. donald trump is the only hope we’ve got.— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 24, 2016
To chat with Tay, you can tweet or DM her by finding @tayandyou on Twitter, or add her as a contact on Kik or GroupMe.
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Mar 22, 2016
What Do These Robots Mean For The Future Of Sex?
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: computing, robotics/AI, sex
https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_mYvSVG3QY
For those unfamiliar, SXSW is a week-long, trendy, if not seriously geeky festival of film and culture, panels and discussions. This year, one of the strangest – and either most disturbing or most compelling, depending on where you stand – talks was delivered by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a Japanese inventor and roboticist. The Osaka University professor was speaking about human-like androids and what roles they might fill within society in the near future. Ishiguro discussed his greatest and most marvellous creation to date: a “Geminoid” (robot in his own likeness) whose human appearance has been deftly created through with a plastic skull, a metal skeleton and silicon skin – and is controlled by an external computer. It would be hard, at a glance, to tell the two apart. In fact, the Geminoid held an autonomous conversation in Japanese, on stage, in front of an audience of hundreds.
Geminoid is not Ishiguro’s first uncannily human robot. In 2005, he developed a female android named Repliee Q1Expo, telling the BBC, “I have developed many robots before, but I soon realised the importance of its appearance. A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence. Repliee Q1Expo can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It’s very satisfying.”
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Mar 6, 2016
Hot Bot Official Trailer 2016 HD
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEFcUuhi1jE
Comedy.
From director: Michael Polish
Writers: Mark Polish, Mark Polish
Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot (Bardot).
Cast: zack pearlman, doug haley, cynthia kirchner, anthony anderson, donald faison, danny masterson.
Conversation with a robot.
Q: What’s it like to have a conversation with a sex robot? A: Bonkers.
Feb 24, 2016
Japanese men aren’t having sex with real women anymore
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: sex
Feb 15, 2016
Scientists Warn that Robots and Artificial Intelligence Could Eliminate Work
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: employment, robotics/AI, sex, transportation
“We need to start thinking very seriously—what will humans do when machines can do almost everything?” Vardi said. “We have to redefine the meaning of good life without work.”
And increase inequality.
Robots and artificial intelligence have long posed a threat to humans’ jobs, but a group of scientists on Sunday issued an especially dire warning about the impact of such machines.
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Feb 11, 2016
Brain Games‘ Jason Silva Explains Why Robots Won’t Destroy the Human Race
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, robotics/AI, sex
Hmmm; sounds like he needs to read one of my postings on congitive thinking.
Sex, drugs, God, and a hit TV show. Are there any limits to the techno-optimism of television’s favorite “wonder junkie”?