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You are correct it was just a virtual video feed. I misread the article. I wonder how successful they could be with current AI technology. It seems that in thi

• anigbrowl 13y ago
  Agreed, but for these purposes it's probably better to have it human-driven to avoid the possibility of entrapment (where the criminal perpetrator is actively encouraged to commit a crime, rather than passively presented with the opportunity to do so). Having said that I'd say it's only 10 years before there's a trade in AI-driven virtual sex partners, which opens up a whole other box of ethical questions.
• abracar 13y ago
  There's a Spanish initiative called Negobot that seems to rely on AI much more than Sweetie does — as its name suggests, it's a bot, not just a decoy. (Article in English: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lolita-game-theory_n_3579716.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lol... and paper: http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf)