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Sally the Robot Was Coming to a New York School. Then the Plug Was Pulled. (www.nytimes.com)
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It was made by a sex bot company

While Realbotix focuses on robots for the classroom and home, the sibling company makes A.I.-powered sex dolls with names like Serenity and Harmony, marketed as the “world’s most advanced sex robot.”

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Embodiment of AI. Its a 60k sex doll so people can talk with a chatbot.

I was actually super disappointed.

Tbh a sex doll if made with sincerity could actually be useful for anatomy classes, health classes, in very limited use, sex ed classes.

Its a cpr dummy that could talk! A maniquin with sex organs! You get a skeleton, a muscle only version, a nervous system version, endocyen system model, and BAM you have whats in text books in a series of models that students can see in 3d, move around and manipluate. It could reacte to students too, so immediate feedback on chest compressions or tell me what muscle this is, etc.

The cost is stupid high so i think VR is best case for this for now, but that is super limited for first aid/cpr type stuff.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah no, I get the distinct impression that this is investor bait. The demo models are just plausible enough to draw some funding ("this one's just the prototype! next version will be better with your money! swearsies!"). It's not intended to be useful, it's intended to get VC buy-in. I think it's vaporware.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Investor bait from the crypto turned AI company? Impossible! /s