It's often seen as a taboo subject, but one scientist is finally lifting the lid on our sex lives - and what 2025 has in store for them. Dr Olivia Lee, the Relationship Scholar in Residence at Doll Authority, has revealed the seven sex trends set to encapsulate the year ahead. Speaking to MailOnline, she said: 'From fashion to travel, many of us are eagerly anticipating the trends that may – whether we realise it or not – influence our choices throughout the year. 'However, it doesn't end there; several exciting and unexpected sex trends are also on the horizon, and it looks like 2025 is going to be very kinky.' Several of Dr Lee's predictions are based on the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) - including AI sexting, and AI-enhanced sex dolls.

A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed AI researchers, for the first time, to demonstrate a useful and reliable way of sifting through masses of correlating data to spot when correlation means causation. By fusing old, overlapping and incomplete datasets this new method, inspired by quantum cryptography, paves the way for researchers to glean the results of medical trials that would otherwise be too expensive, difficult or unethical to run. The research is being published at the prestigious and peer-reviewed Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in New York. Dr Saurabh Johri, Chief Science Officer at Babylon, said: "Until now, we have been limited to piecing together answers from studies that needed to capture all the data really neatly. But when we've seen a correlation between obesity and low vitamin D in one study, and obesity and heart failure in another, we have not been able to say whether vitamin D has a causal role in heart failure without doing another, hugely expensive clinical trial. Now we can put the pieces of the jigsaw together."

IMAGE: This is an illustrative diagram giving an example of how artificial intelligence tackles establishing causation from correlation. A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) has allowed AI researchers, for the first time, to demonstrate a useful and reliable way of sifting through masses of correlating data to spot when correlation means causation. By fusing old, overlapping and incomplete datasets this new method, inspired by quantum cryptography, paves the way for researchers to glean the results of medical trials that would otherwise be too expensive, difficult or unethical to run. The research is being published at the prestigious and peer-reviewed Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in New York. Dr Saurabh Johri, Chief Science Officer at Babylon, said: "Until now, we have been limited to piecing together answers from studies that needed to capture all the data really neatly. But when we've seen a correlation between obesity and low vitamin D in one study, and obesity and heart failure in another, we have not been able to say whether vitamin D has a causal role in heart failure without doing another, hugely expensive clinical trial. Now we can put the pieces of the jigsaw together."

BEIJING: As a journalist, I always try to ask smart questions. But I could not beat the questions that a group of five-year-olds posed to China's top artificial intelligence (AI) guru, like the ones in the headline of this article. People pay attention to what Dr Lee Kai-Fu says – lots of people. Fifty million people in China follow him on social media, which means he has more fans than American talk show host Oprah Winfrey. One of his tag lines is "AI is reshaping the world as we know it".

BEIJING: As a journalist, I always try to ask smart questions. But I could not beat the questions that a group of five-year-olds posed to China's top artificial intelligence (AI) guru, like the ones in the headline of this article. People pay attention to what Dr Lee Kai-Fu says – lots of people. Fifty million people in China follow him on social media, which means he has more fans than American talk show host Oprah Winfrey. One of his tag lines is "AI is reshaping the world as we know it".