Former Google chief says AI will soon bring sex dolls to life – as he warns it will ‘redesign love and relationships’

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and augmented reality risk a “major redesign of love and relationships,” according to a former Google exec.

“Let’s just say this is a very important redesign of society,” said Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Google’s secretive R&D wing, Google X.

The convergence of these technologies, as Gawdat explained in a recent podcast interview, could lead to sex dolls that appear “alive” or dating apps filled with AI avatars.

“If we think a few years ahead and think about Neuralink and other ways to connect directly to your nervous system,” Gawdat speculated, “why would you need another being in the first place?”

Speaking on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Gawdat pointed out that when it comes to AI, technologists, policymakers and society at large often focus too tightly on philosophical questions that will not accept the interests of big business.

Speaking on the YouTube channel before the show Impact Theory with Tom BilyeuGawdat pointed out that technologists, policymakers and society at large often focus too heavily on philosophical questions that big business interests don’t want.

“We get lost in those conversations of ‘Are they still alive? Are they conscious?” Gawdat said. “Never mind: if my brain believes they are, then they are.”

“Just think of all the illusions we can’t decipher right now,” he remarked.

“Does it really matter if the Morgan Freeman talking to you on screen is actually Morgan Freeman or an AI-generated avatar, if you’re convinced it’s Morgan Freeman?”

Gawdat unfolded to Bilyeu and his audience the biochemistry of how sex registers in the human brain, suggesting that the physical side of human sexual intimacy would be easy to simulate with today’s technology.

Some people may only need Apple’s Vision Pro or Meta’s Quest 3 virtual reality headset to experience satisfying sex.

“If we can convince you that this sex robot is alive, or that sex experience is alive in a virtual reality headset or an augmented reality headset,” Gawdat argued, “then it’s real.” There you go.’

“It’s all signals in your brain that you enjoy companionship and sexuality,” he added, “and if you really want to get the magic out of it, it can be simulated.”

‘Just like we can now very, very easily simulate how to move muscles. There are so many ways you can copy the brain signals that would move your hand a certain way and just give it back to your hand and it will move the same way.”

Gawdat imagined the future of the dating app business under these circumstances and drew comparisons to the AI ​​chatbot app Replikathat learns its users’ texting styles to further emulate and bond with them.

“There are over two million people on Replika,” Gawdat noted.

“And since there’s money in it, what would stop the next dating app from giving you avatars to date?” he asked. “A lot of people will try.”