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OverviewWhat happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the ways 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 the interaction of new technologies and fundamental human behaviors. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rob BrooksPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231200943ISBN 10: 0231200943 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 07 September 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 IndexReviewsFantastic, funny, informative, and very, very timely. -- Kate Devlin, author of <i>Turned On: Science, Sex, and Robots</i> Artificial Intimacy is a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life. -- Steve Stewart-Williams, author of <i>The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve</i> Rob Brooks weaves an engaging story of how this near future may look, drawing deeply on both his background as an evolutionary biologist and his skill as a scientific storyteller. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride into love and intimacy in your digital future. -- Toby Walsh, author of <i>2062: The World That AI Made</i> Witty, accessible, always fascinating but surely contentious, this is popular science that will appeal to readers of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. -- <i>Books + Publishing</i> Artificial Intimacy is a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life, and it is a pleasure to read. -- Steve Stewart-Willliams, School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Fantastic, funny, informative, and very, very timely. -- Kate Devlin, author of <i>Turned On</i> ...a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life. -- Steve Stewart-Willliams, author of <i>The Ape that Understood the Universe</i> Brooks weaves an engaging story of how this near future may look, drawing deeply both on his background as an evolutionary biologist, and his skill as a scientific story-teller. Get ready for a roller coaster ride into love and intimacy in your digital future. -- Toby Walsh, author of <i>2062: The World that AI Made</i> Witty, accessible, always fascinating but surely contentious, this is popular science that will appeal to readers of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. -- <i>Books + Publishing</i> Fantastic, funny, informative, and very, very timely. -- Kate Devlin, author of <i>Turned On</i> Brooks weaves an engaging story of how this near future may look, drawing deeply both on his background as an evolutionary biologist, and his skill as a scientific story-teller. Get ready for a roller coaster ride into love and intimacy in your digital future. -- Toby Walsh, author of <i>2062: The World that AI Made</i> Artificial Intimacy is a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life, and it is a pleasure to read. -- Steve Stewart-Willliams, School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Author InformationRob 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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