Early Replicants

A woman reporter visits a sex doll factory, takes the tour, chats with the craftspeople and techs, and talks AI with those working to create 'personalities' for future dolls. Her article is at Spectator USA, and Ed Driscoll of Instapundit provides the link. I found her conclusion somewhat eerie and the photos moreso.

It’s the fact that human affection, passion and emotions are being reduced to code and algorithms. The human experience of love, companionship and unconditional acceptance we often expect from our pets is being hacked, replicated and ultimately replaced by dolls who live in the cloud during the day and function as your robot wife/sex slave/ couch buddy at night.

She can be anything you want her to be and demands nothing (unless you want her to). Soon she’ll be able to make sandwiches. I can’t help but wonder if a large majority of men won’t opt for the conflict-free humanoid over the real thing, with all of our baggage and hormones and mothers-in-law.

The creators of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer wrote an episode (season 5, episode 15) about this, their answer was men won't opt for humanoids. Were those writers Latter Day Luddites?