China’s new robot lips are the kiss of death for human relationships Opinion by vinaymenon
, people commissioned life-sized figurines in the eerie likeness of deceased spouses and now China is hawking sensual robot lips.
According to CNN, this new smooch machine is more technologically advanced than my dad’s old Monte Carlo. It is “equipped with pressure sensors and actuators.” It can “mimic a real kiss by replicating the pressure, movement and temperature of a user’s lips.” It might also be endorsed by Dolby THX: “Along with the kissing motion, it can also transmit the sound the user makes.”Now, if the sex tech inventors promised to stop at lips I might look away.
Did you read the story by Kevin Roose in the New York Times last month about how a conversation with Bing’s chatbot left him “deeply unsettled”? I was genuinely spooked by his exchange with this chatbot named Sydney. Especially this paragraph:
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