Isolated in rural America, Jim Moore's closest connections are sexy AI chatbots modeled after real women. What he later ...
Preferring a robot to a human being remains a very minority choice today, but intimate or romantic relationships with robots ...
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks ...
It’s never easy to say goodbye to a friend. But what if that friend was an AI robot toy? That’s a question one little girl’s father is grappling with, after she damaged her AI learning companion. The ...
Usage is growing fast. Maoxiang (“catbox”), the biggest companionship app in China, has around 1.2m monthly active users on Apple devices, reckons SensorTower, a market-intelligence firm. And 42% of ...