Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers

by Robert Brooks

Book Overview

What 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231200943
• ISBN13: 9780231200943
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"