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Month: May 2021

Posted on26 May, 202125 February, 2022Articles

Events, Interviews, and Articles to do with Artificial Intimacy

Talks and Events Sydney Writers Festival – Curiosity Lecture May 2021 – Listen Here (29 minutes) Television and Video ABC The Drum – Friday 21 May 2021. Channel 7 – The Morning Show – Had fun talking Artificial Intimacy with…

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Caravaggio's 1599 painting of Narcissus, staring into the digital pond.
Posted on7 May, 20217 May, 2021Articles

We Have Entered the Age of Artificial Intimacy

First published in The Conversation under the title Sex bots, virtual friends, VR lovers: tech is changing the way we interact, and not always for the better Twenty-first century technologies such as robots, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are…

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Posted on7 May, 202110 August, 2021artificial intelligence

Thirteen Surprising Facts About Artificial Intimacy

Some of the ways AI is hijacking our emotional lives What happens when our evolved human minds and old-fashioned cultures encounter the technologies of the 21st Century? Specifically, I mean virtual reality, robotics, and — most important — artificial intelligence.…

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