Me and my AI doll girlfriend

At the past  Sex Culture Festival in China, My AI Girlfriend was staged in the form of a stage play about a man who falls in love at first sight with a doll.

Most of the audience had expectations for the stage play, hoping to see intelligent performances by the physical dolls, and also hoping that the physical dolls would interact and communicate with the male protagonist. But until the end of the show, when the heroine bowed and thanked the audience and left the stage, the AI doll heroine did not have any movement or voice expression of her own, and the disappointment on the audience’s face was evident.

This provokes us to think, because many physical dolls are playing the gimmick of AI, but in reality, artificial intelligence does not essentially exist, nor does it exist in its most advanced form, and there is still a long way to go here.

Status of AI physical dolls

Many countries and regions organize adult industry exhibitions so that more people can have in-depth exchanges and watch the current development of physical dolls. Through long-term observation and investigation, many people have realized that the current entity doll is intelligent, only the most basic intelligence, blinking, to complete the simplest Chinese and English bilingual dialogue, sensitivity is not strong.

Need someone to speak a programmed language with it, must be pronounced in the standard language, can not have too much continuous pronunciation, a little accent does not work, the doll will not be able to correctly identify the true meaning and content of what you want to express. In fact, if you really want two-way communication, it’s probably not as fun or accurate as Siri.

AI applications research and development of physical dolls may be in a relatively preliminary stage, but with AI itself for its part has evolved to considerable heights, such as Google’s famous AlphaGo, where Kodjie’s failure to deal with certain complexities has exceeded human limits.

Japanese scientists have also developed dolls that can play the piano and violin and display hundreds of expressive faces. They are full of joy, anger, sadness and delight, but all this comes with a caveat: a high price tag. Therefore, at this stage, it will take some time before high-level AI is rolled out to mass-consumption products.

Although AI is very advanced, these core technologies are in the hands of a few, and many people still don’t know how AI works, which involves many core algorithms and is extremely complex. In addition to the fact that the core of AI is difficult to easily replicate, it is also very costly and requires a lot of human and material resources.

The price of ordinary silicone dolls is unaffordable for most people, and most people will choose the cheaper TPE dolls. So as things stand now, buying AI physical dolls is just a niche trend. But there is no denying that high-tech entity dolls are bound to be the trend of the times, and now ordinary entity dolls will be replaced by more advanced new technology dolls in the future.

The Need for Intelligent SexDolls

At this stage, physical dolls probably serve two functions, one is to fulfill basic physical sexual needs; the other is to satisfy the player’s mental fetishism, and in fact, most players have both.

Let’s take a look at fetishism, which is a psychological condition rooted in insecurity, such as social fears, where certain objects are used as mental supports to fill in the gaps. For example, some young children need to cuddle with a stuffed animal to fall asleep, and some geeks are obsessed with secondary characters and a certain celebrity.

Fetishism is not a disease, and counseling treatment is only needed when it seriously affects normal life and produces negative self-evaluation. Most players of dolls are single and lonely, and these dolls fill the emotional void caused by the lack of friends and partners. They use their rich imagination to create an atmosphere of emotional communication with their dolls, and they hope that someone will respond to them. When they speak, someone will answer; when they are exhausted, they want to be hugged or lie on someone for comfort. Many people don’t expect these dolls to actually bring them anything tangible in return, only psychological comfort and companionship.

Advanced dolls are much more functional, with almost all of the best features concentrated in the tiny dolls. For example, interactive dolls can provide timely feedback and add more fun to the chatting process; heated dolls make you no longer feel cold on winter nights and you can comfortably cuddle up and sleep. The existence of physical dolls makes them realize that they are not alone, they also have company, so they no longer feel lonely, which will also let them get rid of their inner constraints and face the future with a more positive attitude.

Intelligent Security Issues

A number of AI erotica manufacturers have had their user data compromised, including extremely private information such as usernames, contact details and usage details. Hacking is now rampant, and the fallout from earlier outbreaks of fraudulent software remains unresolved. A hack in London led to the freezing of $280 million in Ether. If physical dolls are smart, then private information about user data will be a test in terms of security.

Just like today’s smartphones, while they bring great convenience to life, your information seems to be constantly being claimed and monitored by outsiders and it is extremely vulnerable. This is what we need to focus on, at what stage will AI happen? After it has its own consciousness, is it controllable? These are all things that need to be considered in advance.

AI physical dolls are a social trend that many people benefit from. But at the same time, we need to think, can we control some future trends? How do we solve the uncertainty of the future? Otherwise, it will not usher in the intelligent era of physical dolls.

Although the current entity dolls are still in the initial stage of development, we believe that the future entity dolls will develop more perfect and beautiful, and we will eventually usher in the light.

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