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Artificial Intimacy Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers

Rob Brooks

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 huma...

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Modern Wisdom

Rob Brooks's book, written in 2019 and 2020, was discussed as a foundation for the podcast episode. It explores the emerging field of artificial intimacy and its potential impact on human relationships.

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Yeah, I do feel a little bit vindicated in that this my book came out in 2021.

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Rob Brooks's book, written in 2019 and 2020, was discussed as a foundation for the podcast episode. It explores the emerging field of artificial intimacy and its potential impact on human relationships.

"

Yeah, I do feel a little bit vindicated in that this my book came out in 2021.

So I was writing it in 2019, 2020 really.

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