Artificial intimacy : virtual friends, digital lovers, and algorithmic matchmakers /

What happens when the human mind, evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological buttons, stimulating and sometimes exploiting the way people make friends, gossip with neighbors, and grow intimate with lovers. Sex robots present the humanoid fac...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Brooks, Rob, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Sex. Intimacy (Psychology) Online social networks. Artificial intelligence > Social aspects. Technological innovations > Social aspects.