Rob Brooks

Artificial Intimacy

Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers

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Produktbeschreibung

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 needsâ and are getting better at what they do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780231200943
• ISBN-10: 0231200943
• Artikelnr.: 60926934

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In the beginning
1. Meet the dollbots 2. It
s not about the robot 3. Groom your friends 4. The intimacy algorithm 5. How did sex become so complicated? 6. When artificial intimacy goes bad 7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex 8. Tomorrow
s moral panic will be just like yesterday
s 9. Make war not love 10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection 11. There
s no such thing as free love 12. A future in four fictions Acknowledgments References Notes Index