New year, new you and new dating life – and maybe a new robot partner?
An unearthed article from 2016 has gone viral claiming that by 2025, women will have more sex with robots than with humans.
For anyone involved in human romance, a whole new demographic of partners will have opened up in just a few hours, the 2016 article said.
The article – originally published by The Sun in 2016 – claimed that robot sex will become more common than human intercourse by 2050, as predicted by futurist Dr. Ian Pearson.
‘Many people will still have reservations about sex with robots at first, but as they get used to it, as the AI (artificial intelligence) and mechanical behavior and feelings improve, and they start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, who prudishness will gradually disappear,” he said in the report, commissioned by Bondara i2015.
While the article has been circulating online all year, as the new year approaches, people have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the bizarre predictions.
“Morning,” another wrote eagerly.
“WE ARE READY,” one person wrote.
“Imagine your girl leaving you for a robot,” another joked.
An unearthed article from 2016 claims that women will have more sex with robots than humans by 2025
“Any news about this?” someone else asked.
“IT’S HAPPENING,” cheered another, reacting to a photo of an article about Kim Kardashian holding hands with a Tesla robot.
Dr. Pearson added that Robophilia – the name given to people who fall in love with robots – could probably also occur.
According to Dr. Pearson will start the shift to robot sex with virtual sex, which “most people” will have had by 2030, which he said would be partly due to the rise of connected devices.
In the 2015 report commissioned by the British adult toy retailer, he argued that the nature of the work and long-distance relationships would contribute to this.
“Some may just use basic VR without the sex toys as part of it,” he predicted. ‘By 2035, toys will be better developed and by then most people will be well accustomed to VR sex, so they will have acquired a collection of sex toys that work with VR.’
While noting that “many” people will still have reservations about having sex with robots, he went on to predict that by 2050, humanity’s “prudishness will gradually disappear.”
‘In theory you can now buy robots. They’re not very good,” Pearson told Inverse in 2015. “They really fall far short of a real sex robot.”
While noting that “many” people will still have reservations about having sex with robots, he went on to predict that by 2050, humanity’s “prudishness will gradually disappear.”
Although the article has been circulating online all year, as the new year approaches, people have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the bizarre predictions.
But in 2020, just five years removed from his predictions, Dr. Pearson admitted he may have been off by a few years.
“It didn’t happen as quickly as I thought,” Pearson told CNN at the time. “AI developed very quickly at the beginning of this century, so we had predictions that by 2015 we would have conscious machines that were smarter than humans.”
He added that his predictions for hyper-advanced and fully conscious AI were at least a few decades out.
“I estimate that AI has probably evolved about 35 to 40 percent slower than we expected,” he admitted.