Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is taking AI in a dangerous direction by building chatbots that present as human: He worries that people will be tricked into seeing life instead of lifelike behavior. In August, he published a much-discussed post on his personal blog that urged his peers to stop trying to make what he called " seemingly conscious artificial intelligence," or SCAI. On the other hand, Suleyman runs a product shop that must compete with those peers. Last week, Microsoft announced a string of updates to its Copilot chatbot, designed to boost its appeal in a crowded market in which customers can pick and choose between a pantheon of rival bots that already includes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and more.

From Austin Powers to Subservience, sex robots have been staple features of blockbusters for decades. But the unusual devices are slowly but surely becoming more mainstream, with human-robot sex even predicted to become more common than human-human by 2050. Now, a Chinese company has unveiled its latest model - and it's one of the strangest we've seen yet. Ridmii, a company based in Dongguan City, has created a range of sex robots that can be controlled remotely. The doll syncs up to an app via Bluetooth, where the person in control can manage everything from squeezing to thrusting, and even moaning.

The idea of your partner having sex with a robot might sound like the stuff of nightmares. But a new report has revealed that a quarter of people wouldn't mind - albeit with an important caveat. They would only excuse the tryst if the robot was modelled after them. Researchers from ZipHealth surveyed 1,000 people to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining intimacy and sexual health. 'How much trust would you place in artificial intelligence for your most personal concerns?' the team wrote in a blog.

Next year may be the year of the robot lover. While many increasingly fear automation in the workplace, some futurists predict the machines will come for our love lives in 2025. This new year marks the date futurist Dr Ian Pearson anticipated humanity'will start to see some forms of robot sex appearing in high-income, very wealthy households.' And the physics and math PhD, who has boasted of having an 85 percent accuracy rate for his forecasts, argues women might overtake men in the adoption of sex robots by 2025 -- in part, because they already have a technological head start. 'Vibrators have been around for over a century,' Dr Pearson noted, 'but now the vibrant sex toy industry doesn't just make standalone devices, but teledildonic devices that bring all the fun and functionality of computing and networks to sex too.' First conceived in 1975, 'teledildonics' has become the technical term of art for mechanical sex toys that operate remotely, whether via the internet or otherwise.

It's been 25 years since Matt Groening's classic cartoon Futurama first aired, offering a hilarious portrayal of Earth in the 31st century. In the cult sci-fi series, New York delivery boy Fry is cryogenically frozen on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up 1,000 years later to a very different reality. As Fry discovers, the world is full of technological wonders, from self aware robots to high-speed transportation tubes and celebrities preserved in jars. Although many are still the stuff of fantasy, the last quarter of a century has seen a level of technological invention that the show's producers surely didn't anticipate. As a new series airs on Disney, MailOnline takes a look at Futurama gadgetry that's now a realty, from sex robots to chip implants and even suicide booths.

Porn has reached a golden age as people are searching for mature content like'sexy granny' and'MILF' Those are among the many search terms that saw growth on Pornhub in 2023. The adult website sifted through data from billions of visits to see what content defined the year's tastes, finding the top category was'The Golden Age.' 'MILF' became the second most searched term worldwide, while'Granny' saw a 132 percent increase from 2022 - and terms like'sexy granny ' and'hot GILF' trending. Many searches also included'DILF,' with'muscle DILF' traffic growing by 71 percent. It seems Pornhub is maturing, according to its most searched fetishes of 2023 that included'Granny' and'MILF' This year, the MILF category climbed a spot on the charts to the fifth most viewed category worldwide, Pornhub revealed. The Mature category came in seventh, seeing a 69 percent increase among viewers, and it is now the second most popular among men and fifth among women.

The idea of having sex with a robot might sound like the plot of the latest science fiction blockbuster. But a new report has revealed that a third of Britons wish it was a reality for them. The report by LELO, dubbed the Sex Census, quizzed thousands of Britons about their sex habits and desires. It reveals that a third of Britons have used, would use, or would'maybe' consider using a sex robot if an affordable option was released. And we're not just talking sex dolls here - sex robots refer to sophisticated devices that are integrated with AI, allowing them to move and talk just like real people.

Now that we have intelligent lightbulbs, doorbells, refrigerators, and more, it was only a matter of time before our most primal and intimate lives became smarter through artificial intelligence. Since sextech was allowed to exhibit at CES 2020 among the health and wellness vendors instead of denied entry or tucked away in the back as in years past, technology intended to augment the human sexual experience might just be on the verge of going mainstream. As more and more people invite artificial intelligence into their bedrooms and most intimate experiences, let's review the possibilities as well as perils that might bring. Creators of science fiction have imagined a future where human-like sex robots rule human sexual experience. However, sextech is more than just sex bots.

The man leans towards the woman on his couch. "What is your favourite meal?" he asks, his accent French. "Electricity," she says, with a strong Scottish inflection. "It provides me energy and has a kick to it." The slight, bespectacled, increasingly bemused man peppers her with questions as they sit.

Robots have histories that extend far back into the past. Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots all find expression from the human imagination in works and contexts beyond Ovid (43 BCE to 17 CE) and the story of Pygmalion in cultures across Eurasia and North Africa. This long history of our human-machine relationships also reminds us that our aspirations, fears, and fantasies about emergent technologies are not new, even as the circumstances in which they appear differ widely. Situating these objects, and the desires that create them, within deeper and broader contexts of time and space reveals continuities and divergences that, in turn, provide opportunities to critique and question contemporary ideas and desires about robots and artificial intelligence (AI). As early as 3,000 years ago we encounter interest in intelligent machines and AI that perform different servile functions.