TY  - GEN
T1  - Artificial intimacy : virtual friends, digital lovers, and algorithmic matchmakers
A1  - Brooks, Rob, 1970-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1245960100
AB  - "What happens when the human mind, evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the way people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humanoid face of this technological revolution-yet although it is easy to gawk at their uncanniness, more familiar technologies based in artificial intelligence and virtual reality are insinuating themselves into human interactions. Digital lovers, virtual friends, and algorithmic matchmakers help us manage our feelings in a world of cognitive overload. Will these machines, fueled by masses of user data and powered by algorithms that learn all the time, transform the quality of human life? Artificial Intimacy offers an innovative perspective on the possibilities of the present and near future. 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. Brooks combines an understanding of core human traits from evolutionary biology with analysis of how cultural, economic, and technological contexts shape the ways people express them. Beyond the technology, he asks what the implications of artificial intimacy will be for how we understand ourselves"--
OP  - 293
CN  - HQ21 .B873 2021
SN  - 9780231553858
SN  - 0231553854
SN  - 9780231200943
SN  - 0231200943
KW  - Sex.
KW  - Intimacy (Psychology)
KW  - Online social networks.
KW  - Artificial intelligence : Social aspects.
KW  - Technological innovations : Social aspects.
KW  - Sexual Behavior
KW  - Sexualité.
KW  - Intimité.
KW  - Réseaux sociaux (Internet)
KW  - Intelligence artificielle : Aspect social.
KW  - Innovations : Aspect social.
KW  - sexuality.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality
KW  - Artificial intelligence : Social aspects
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Sex
KW  - Technological innovations : Social aspects
ER  -