Old publish that claims ladies will probably be having extra intercourse with ROBOTS than males by 2025 resurfaces forward of New Year’s
New Year, new you and new dating life – and maybe a new robotic partner?
An unearthed article from 2016 has gone viral, claiming that by 2025, women will be having more sex with robots than people.
For anyone striking out with human romance, in just a matter of hours, a whole new demographic of partners will have opened up, according to the 2016 article.
The article – originally published by The Sun in 2016 – claimed robot sex will be more common than human intercourse by 2050, as predicted by futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson.
‘A lot of people will still have reservations about sex with robots at first but gradually as they get used to them, as the AI (artificial intelligence) and mechanical behavior and their feel improves, and they start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, that squeamishness will gradually evaporate,’ he said in the report, commissioned by Bondara in 2015.
While the article had been circulating online all year, as the New Year approaches, people have been taking to social media to share their thoughts on the outlandish predictions.
‘Tomorrow,’ wrote another eagerly.
‘WE ARE READY,’ one wrote.
‘Imagine your girl leaving you for a robot,’ joked another.
An unearthed article from 2016 has claimed that by 2025, woman will be having more sex with robots than people
‘Any updates on this?’ someone else asked.
‘IT’S HAPPENING,’ cheered another, responding to a picture of an article about Kim Kardashian holding hands with a Tesla robot.
Dr. Pearson added that Robophilia – the name given to humans who fall in love with robots – could also be likely to happen.
According to Dr. Pearson, the shift to robot sex will begin with virtual sex, which ‘most people’ will have had by 2030, which he said would – in part – be due to the rise in connected devices.
In the 2015 report commissioned by the UK adult toy retailer, he argued the nature of work and long-distance relationships would feed into this.
‘Some might only use straightforward VR without the sex toys as part of that,’ he predicted. ‘By 2035 toys will be better developed and most people will be well used to VR sex by then, so will have acquired a collection of sex toys that interwork with VR.’
Although he noted ‘a lot’ of people will still have reservations about sex with robots, he further predicted that by 2050, humanity’s ‘squeamishness will gradually evaporate.’
‘You can theoretically buy robots now. They’re not very good,’ Pearson told Inverse in 2015. ‘They really fall far short of a proper sex robot.’
Although he noted ‘a lot’ of people will still have reservations about sex with robots, he further predicted that by 2050, humanity’s ‘squeamishness will gradually evaporate’
While the article had been circulating online all year, as the New Year approaches, people have been taking to social media to share their thoughts on the outlandish predictions
However, in 2020, just five years away from his predictions, Dr Pearson admitted he may have been a few years off.
‘It hasn’t progressed as fast as I thought,’ Pearson told CNN at the time. ‘AI was developing very quickly at the start of the century, so we had predictions that by 2015 we’d have conscious machines that were smarter than people.’
He added his predictions for hyper-advanced and fully conscious AI was off by at least a few decades.
‘I would estimate AI has probably progressed about 35 or 40 percent slower than we expected it to,’ he confessed.
