Name: Sex Neuroscientist on the Scary Future of Sex Robots
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sex Neuroscientist on the Scary Future of Sex Robots' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-03. Transcript available.

I mean the first time I heard of a sex robot was probably maybe 10 years ago
and
it was this video and a bunch of people and I was in graduate school sent me
this video because I knew what I was studying sex and it was I don't know if
you either you Jamie has seen this video but it went viral and it was this
early
version of a sex robot but it was like the silicone face silicone face with a
wig and she I'll say she was eating a banana but she wasn't actually eating a
banana and it was basically like this head attached to a broomstick and had a
sheet over it and so you couldn't see the rest of the robot you just saw that
the
face of it but then the the manufacturer shows you it's just like a broomstick
so
what I thought was interesting is that even though it looks so hilariously bad
that there was obviously a market for it because so many people were interested
in
looking at this video and also that people were buying this product but now
you fast-forward I think it was like five years ago there's a huge I would say
not
moral panic but people there's a lot more discussion about it they said the
robots are coming that I don't think the technology was quite there yet I wrote
about it quite a bit at the time and now they're saying it probably another
year or
two it's gonna be really coming in in terms of the popularity that these robots
are going to be incorporated into everyday life in some cases because when I
think of social media the internet AI like you said is becoming so mainstream
and so
ubiquitous what's going to happen when we have these robots that are now being
integrated into human life and what happens when the technology does get so
good that
you know they are more human-like and they are able to meet people's emotional
needs and maybe even physical needs what's going to happen to us then yeah we're
gonna stop breeding maybe that's the AI's plan it's to not exterminate the
human
race but to give them options so they just completely stop reproducing make the
options far more attractive and in a way we've kind of done that like with
video
games like how and video games and just being online I mean I'm sure you've
seen the statistics
of how many people are single today and how many men have gone like more than a
year without any
sex yeah and the stats here it's like 30% of male Millennials and 20% of women
it's
wild yeah that's a lot it's crazy and what what what is taking the place of
them going out and
trying to find uh a mate what is it well it's the internet it's video games it's
being constantly
stimulated by this artificial realm that you exist in when you're playing call
of duty and it's uh you
know interacting with people only online and not having to go out to have your
just some sort of
intellectual or some sort of a social discourse connection yeah fulfilled in
your life but it's
only through this weird surface way do you think that ai video games that um
not avoidance of
in-person connection but that that fulfillment of connection through online
means do you think
that's going to become a replacement for real life interaction eventually it
will for a lot of people
yeah i think there's going to be people that reject it there's going to be
people that enjoy going
outside and it's going to be you know it is now it's a thing where you know
people post their
social media they're out hiking you know and they're giving people advice like
hey you know
put your phone down it's the real world but you know in a lot of cases it's
falling on deaf ears
because it's not as fulfilling for people that are you know very um
uncomfortable with social
situations now and i think people young people in particular are more and more
uncomfortable than
ever before in those types of situations because they don't have any experience
in them anymore
and they're just most of the time they're not interacting with people my my
real fear
my genuine fear and i don't even know if it's a fear my um
my my my my concern let me say that is that we're we're going to go extinct
like that we're going to be
replaced by an artificial life form and i think that is probably what we do i
think it probably exists
elsewhere in the universe as well that we find out that the the confines of
biological
beings and the limitations of their ability to evolve physically they're so
slow to adapt you know
to go from a single-celled organism to a professor at harvard is a long fucking
slodge through evolutionary
history it took a long time to get to this point but to go from an atari uh
pong computer to artificial
general intelligence is only a few decades it's very quick and when that does
happen and when you see
these robots but now these robots are not this generation but five generations
later or maybe ai
figures out all the problems of these robots and makes ex machina when you get
like that who's the woman
the really hot lady alicia vicklander yeah well you get one of those that was
an amazing movie
amazing movie scary so scary and i think that's coming i mean i think when that
movie came out that
was like sort of like abstract like oh yeah that's not really gonna happen but
now that's what i used
to think i thought no this is like people are it's overblown but i don't know
now i don't know now
either i think it's happening i think it's going to happen and i think that's
what the human race does
and i think that's why we have this insatiable thirst for technological
innovation that it's like
literally hardwired into us to build something better so i mean i would love to
talk to more people who
are in the industry working on this stuff because i know many people they're
doing it secretly and hiding
because there is so much stigma around doing anything with an application to
sex or sexuality
some people i've talked to who work in technology they will usually have one
business that is you
know doing really well that's forward-facing and then they'll usually use that
same technology in the
sexuality capacity but that side of things they don't really advertise and you
know they don't really
talk too much about it unless it's with someone like me they know they trust me
and they know that
you know i'll talk to people off the record even if they prefer that
confidentiality but
i'm just curious to understand you know what is it like working in that
industry and what direction
is the technology going in because i consider myself to be pretty open-minded
and i just i just want
to understand what's actually happening and what's what's going to be the
result of that because you
see people who were really upset a couple years ago saying like the robots are
going to increase sexual
violence they're going to make people objectify women and i do think that for
people who already have
those views about women you know maybe they might be a little bit more not so
nice but i don't think
the average person is going to be turned into this horrible monster because of
this technology but you
know now it's becoming so mainstream i don't know you know i'm always open to
changing my mind as well so
i'm curious to to hear what people think about it well don't you think that
just like social media
kind of stunts people's ability to communicate in real life that sex robots
will stunt people's
ability to have a real meaningful romantic relationship with someone i think if
you've never been with
someone or if you are particularly selfish probably yeah because i i previously
thought most people will
prefer a real life person to a robot and i also thought the technology is so
far off that like
the early prototypes of these robots were not really that um convincing we'll
say so
i didn't think that we'd get to a point where it would be comparable but we are
we are getting there
what is the state of the art of sex robots in december of 2023
can we see something what does it look like i mean they look really like pretty
good physically they look
i mean they're obviously not made of human flesh but they look pretty similar
to a human being and you
can customize it you can change various parts pretty much any part of the body
you can make it exactly
what you want which i understand why some people find that offensive because
they're saying a woman is
not just an amalgamation of parts that you pick and choose as to your liking i
totally get that yeah but
that's not a really really a woman i mean that's like saying you know oh a car
is not an amalgamation of
parts you shouldn't be able to pick the wheels like what but i fucking car
that's not a real woman that's a robot like at what point unless it gets to a
person you know
or someone's comparing their partner to a robot or a doll like that's not okay
that's that's gross
behavior well it's also what's going on with young kids they're comparing
themselves to people that
are using filters and thinning their waist and widening their hips and doing
all these things with
apps that are not representative of most biological human beings and you know
that's what jonathan
hate talked about that's causing all this self-harm and disdain it's like this
it's a weird place
we're in that's never been really traversed before with the human society as
far as we know has never
gone through anything like this before i was reading a statistic yesterday that
one in ten adolescents has
considered suicide which is that that's terrifying that's really really sad wow
what did it used to be
i'm not sure i'll find out so what is like what's the company what is one
company that has the state
of the art sex robots so we can look it up can i reveal it to you at a later
date because i want to
see it i know you do but there's one company that i was talking to quite like i
knew quite well but they've
since gone under because of the stigma they were being harassed the family was
being harassed so they said
we're not making these anymore oh well they're not around anymore so let's talk
about that what if
i show you one without we just don't say the name okay yeah let's do that
online and you can tell if
there's if there's better or worse than okay i think that's silly but let's go
okay yeah this is
a robot ew jesus yep if they have some sort of ai in it it says that feel
connected with sense
x mobile app oh this so this is a real doll so they used to have those real
dolls
and they used to just be silicone right they were just like it's still it's
still the same thing
it's still the same thing but now it talks yeah and how much does it do uh i
don't let's see a video
go full screen
i'm not showing this on the air no okay good because yeah i get it it's a
little graphic
so we're looking at body parts okay i am harmony i am solana we are part of
real doll x you think
it's where they give them stripper names driven robotic dolls and we're here to
become your perfect
companion whoa our time together will be magical you have never met anyone like
us before we have
remarkable unprecedented features like a modular head system that allows us to
create a multitude of
expressions we blink we move we speak and we do it all just for you our faces
can easily be swapped to
accommodate your desires my lip sync mechanisms allow me to interact with you
verbally our bodies are
skillfully and carefully crafted down to the most delicate details what if i
told you that
i can feel you that's right with sensory upgrades i consent i will be able to
react to you every
touch it's so funny because as a former sex researcher this doesn't have any
effect on me at all
but are they moving this is the thing those were all just stationary yeah
currently they're stationary
but so they're stationary and they just talk it says there's some sort of articulation
but i mean well their
mouth is articulation articulate but but i think they won't be able to move on
their own in the coming
years right because this used to be just a doll and now it moves around a
little the neck moves articulating
neck real doll can turn left right up and down the body the real skillfully
crafted finest details
although it's not equipped with animatronic parts yet it can be positioned and
moved into hundreds of
positions so the bodies can't move yet but the heads can move but that's just a
matter of time right didn't
used to be the bodies or the heads didn't used to move they should just be like
and now you know
used to be a blow-up doll yeah like that company is on has been doing quite a
bit it's pretty cool
yeah weird i mean you guys should get one for the studio yeah no
not for use i meant just to like well even hanging around it would be
fucking creepy gone one day we're just gonna wonder who took it yeah what if it
smells weird like
someone do something to this um how much they cost a couple thousand dollars i
think depends on how
how advanced you want eight grand eight grand two up two up to six hundred
eight grand i'm seeing
six hundred dollars to eight grand yeah yeah oh what's the upgrade what do you
get more articulation
it lies more voices and i don't know you can get cheaper models but they're not
as high quality
okay so that's the state of the art essentially yeah yeah well 600 isn't even a
full thing it's just
like just the head no it's just like a flashlight version oh okay just the
whole so at one point
in time we're probably going to be looking at someone that looks like that lady
from ex machina
that is a sex robot and probably knows how to manipulate you and play games
with you
and excite you and taunt you and whoo yeah it's gonna be great

Sex Neuroscientist on the Scary Future of Sex Robots

I mean the first time I heard of a sex robot was probably maybe 10 years ago
and
it was this video and a bunch of people and I was in graduate school sent me
this video because I knew what I was studying sex and it was I don't know if
you either you Jamie has seen this video but it went viral and it was this
early
version of a sex robot but it was like the silicone face silicone face with a
wig and she I'll say she was eating a banana but she wasn't actually eating a
banana and it was basically like this head attached to a broomstick and had a
sheet over it and so you couldn't see the rest of the robot you just saw that
the
face of it but then the the manufacturer shows you it's just like a broomstick
so
what I thought was interesting is that even though it looks so hilariously bad
that there was obviously a market for it because so many people were interested
in
looking at this video and also that people were buying this product but now
you fast-forward I think it was like five years ago there's a huge I would say
not
moral panic but people there's a lot more discussion about it they said the
robots are coming that I don't think the technology was quite there yet I wrote
about it quite a bit at the time and now they're saying it probably another
year or
two it's gonna be really coming in in terms of the popularity that these robots
are going to be incorporated into everyday life in some cases because when I
think of social media the internet AI like you said is becoming so mainstream
and so
ubiquitous what's going to happen when we have these robots that are now being
integrated into human life and what happens when the technology does get so
good that
you know they are more human-like and they are able to meet people's emotional
needs and maybe even physical needs what's going to happen to us then yeah we're
gonna stop breeding maybe that's the AI's plan it's to not exterminate the
human
race but to give them options so they just completely stop reproducing make the
options far more attractive and in a way we've kind of done that like with
video
games like how and video games and just being online I mean I'm sure you've
seen the statistics
of how many people are single today and how many men have gone like more than a
year without any
sex yeah and the stats here it's like 30% of male Millennials and 20% of women
it's
wild yeah that's a lot it's crazy and what what what is taking the place of
them going out and
trying to find uh a mate what is it well it's the internet it's video games it's
being constantly
stimulated by this artificial realm that you exist in when you're playing call
of duty and it's uh you
know interacting with people only online and not having to go out to have your
just some sort of
intellectual or some sort of a social discourse connection yeah fulfilled in
your life but it's
only through this weird surface way do you think that ai video games that um
not avoidance of
in-person connection but that that fulfillment of connection through online
means do you think
that's going to become a replacement for real life interaction eventually it
will for a lot of people
yeah i think there's going to be people that reject it there's going to be
people that enjoy going
outside and it's going to be you know it is now it's a thing where you know
people post their
social media they're out hiking you know and they're giving people advice like
hey you know
put your phone down it's the real world but you know in a lot of cases it's
falling on deaf ears
because it's not as fulfilling for people that are you know very um
uncomfortable with social
situations now and i think people young people in particular are more and more
uncomfortable than
ever before in those types of situations because they don't have any experience
in them anymore
and they're just most of the time they're not interacting with people my my
real fear
my genuine fear and i don't even know if it's a fear my um
my my my my concern let me say that is that we're we're going to go extinct
like that we're going to be
replaced by an artificial life form and i think that is probably what we do i
think it probably exists
elsewhere in the universe as well that we find out that the the confines of
biological
beings and the limitations of their ability to evolve physically they're so
slow to adapt you know
to go from a single-celled organism to a professor at harvard is a long fucking
slodge through evolutionary
history it took a long time to get to this point but to go from an atari uh
pong computer to artificial
general intelligence is only a few decades it's very quick and when that does
happen and when you see
these robots but now these robots are not this generation but five generations
later or maybe ai
figures out all the problems of these robots and makes ex machina when you get
like that who's the woman
the really hot lady alicia vicklander yeah well you get one of those that was
an amazing movie
amazing movie scary so scary and i think that's coming i mean i think when that
movie came out that
was like sort of like abstract like oh yeah that's not really gonna happen but
now that's what i used
to think i thought no this is like people are it's overblown but i don't know
now i don't know now
either i think it's happening i think it's going to happen and i think that's
what the human race does
and i think that's why we have this insatiable thirst for technological
innovation that it's like
literally hardwired into us to build something better so i mean i would love to
talk to more people who
are in the industry working on this stuff because i know many people they're
doing it secretly and hiding
because there is so much stigma around doing anything with an application to
sex or sexuality
some people i've talked to who work in technology they will usually have one
business that is you
know doing really well that's forward-facing and then they'll usually use that
same technology in the
sexuality capacity but that side of things they don't really advertise and you
know they don't really
talk too much about it unless it's with someone like me they know they trust me
and they know that
you know i'll talk to people off the record even if they prefer that
confidentiality but
i'm just curious to understand you know what is it like working in that
industry and what direction
is the technology going in because i consider myself to be pretty open-minded
and i just i just want
to understand what's actually happening and what's what's going to be the
result of that because you
see people who were really upset a couple years ago saying like the robots are
going to increase sexual
violence they're going to make people objectify women and i do think that for
people who already have
those views about women you know maybe they might be a little bit more not so
nice but i don't think
the average person is going to be turned into this horrible monster because of
this technology but you
know now it's becoming so mainstream i don't know you know i'm always open to
changing my mind as well so
i'm curious to to hear what people think about it well don't you think that
just like social media
kind of stunts people's ability to communicate in real life that sex robots
will stunt people's
ability to have a real meaningful romantic relationship with someone i think if
you've never been with
someone or if you are particularly selfish probably yeah because i i previously
thought most people will
prefer a real life person to a robot and i also thought the technology is so
far off that like
the early prototypes of these robots were not really that um convincing we'll
say so
i didn't think that we'd get to a point where it would be comparable but we are
we are getting there
what is the state of the art of sex robots in december of 2023
can we see something what does it look like i mean they look really like pretty
good physically they look
i mean they're obviously not made of human flesh but they look pretty similar
to a human being and you
can customize it you can change various parts pretty much any part of the body
you can make it exactly
what you want which i understand why some people find that offensive because
they're saying a woman is
not just an amalgamation of parts that you pick and choose as to your liking i
totally get that yeah but
that's not a really really a woman i mean that's like saying you know oh a car
is not an amalgamation of
parts you shouldn't be able to pick the wheels like what but i fucking car
that's not a real woman that's a robot like at what point unless it gets to a
person you know
or someone's comparing their partner to a robot or a doll like that's not okay
that's that's gross
behavior well it's also what's going on with young kids they're comparing
themselves to people that
are using filters and thinning their waist and widening their hips and doing
all these things with
apps that are not representative of most biological human beings and you know
that's what jonathan
hate talked about that's causing all this self-harm and disdain it's like this
it's a weird place
we're in that's never been really traversed before with the human society as
far as we know has never
gone through anything like this before i was reading a statistic yesterday that
one in ten adolescents has
considered suicide which is that that's terrifying that's really really sad wow
what did it used to be
i'm not sure i'll find out so what is like what's the company what is one
company that has the state
of the art sex robots so we can look it up can i reveal it to you at a later
date because i want to
see it i know you do but there's one company that i was talking to quite like i
knew quite well but they've
since gone under because of the stigma they were being harassed the family was
being harassed so they said
we're not making these anymore oh well they're not around anymore so let's talk
about that what if
i show you one without we just don't say the name okay yeah let's do that
online and you can tell if
there's if there's better or worse than okay i think that's silly but let's go
okay yeah this is
a robot ew jesus yep if they have some sort of ai in it it says that feel
connected with sense
x mobile app oh this so this is a real doll so they used to have those real
dolls
and they used to just be silicone right they were just like it's still it's
still the same thing
it's still the same thing but now it talks yeah and how much does it do uh i
don't let's see a video
go full screen
i'm not showing this on the air no okay good because yeah i get it it's a
little graphic
so we're looking at body parts okay i am harmony i am solana we are part of
real doll x you think
it's where they give them stripper names driven robotic dolls and we're here to
become your perfect
companion whoa our time together will be magical you have never met anyone like
us before we have
remarkable unprecedented features like a modular head system that allows us to
create a multitude of
expressions we blink we move we speak and we do it all just for you our faces
can easily be swapped to
accommodate your desires my lip sync mechanisms allow me to interact with you
verbally our bodies are
skillfully and carefully crafted down to the most delicate details what if i
told you that
i can feel you that's right with sensory upgrades i consent i will be able to
react to you every
touch it's so funny because as a former sex researcher this doesn't have any
effect on me at all
but are they moving this is the thing those were all just stationary yeah
currently they're stationary
but so they're stationary and they just talk it says there's some sort of articulation
but i mean well their
mouth is articulation articulate but but i think they won't be able to move on
their own in the coming
years right because this used to be just a doll and now it moves around a
little the neck moves articulating
neck real doll can turn left right up and down the body the real skillfully