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Artificial Intimacy
Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.
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Rob Brooks is Scientia Professor of Evolution at the University of New South Wales, where he founded and directed the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre. He is the author of Sex, Genes, & Rock ’n’ Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World (2011).
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Witty, accessible, always fascinating but surely contentious, this is popular science that will appeal to readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
Witty, accessible, always fascinating but surely contentious, this is popular science that will appeal to readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.
Toby Walsh, author of 2062: The World That AI Made:
Rob Brooks weaves an engaging story of how this near future may look, drawing deeply on both his background as an evolutionary biologist and his skill as a scientific storyteller. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride into love and intimacy in your digital future.
Steve Stewart-Williams, author of The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve:
Artificial Intimacy is a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life.
Kate Devlin, author of Turned On: Science, Sex, and Robots:
Fantastic, funny, informative, and very, very timely.
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Contents
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Introduction: In the beginning …
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1. Meet the dollbots
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2. It’s not about the robot
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3. Groom your friends
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4. The intimacy algorithm
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5. How did sex become so complicated?
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6. When artificial intimacy goes bad
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7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex
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8. Tomorrow’s moral panic will be just like yesterday’s
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9. Make war not love
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10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection
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11. There’s no such thing as free love
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12. A future in four fictions
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Acknowledgments
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References
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Notes
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Index
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November 3, 2021
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9780231553858
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