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Japan has long been known for being the forefront of artificial intelligence technology, innovating, developing and building well over half the worlds industrial robots. But, what you may not know is that Japan has a new development, a newlady on the block to take care of weary, lonely japanese businessmen!
She is called EMA which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualisation. EMA is 15 inches tall and is targeted towards lonely businessmen who are looking for a girlfriend or companion. EMA will be the perfect girlfriend, she kisses on demand, hands out business cards at meetings and above all won’t argue with you. You can turn her off and on when you wish and she is fully interactive and lovable, just without the human touch.
But, are we solving a problem with technology that surely should be solved another way? By human to human kindness and interaction. We communicate more but we engage with each other less and less. EMA may fill a whole in a lonely japanese business mans heart for a while, but will the advancement of artificial intellengence eventually take away the elements of what is so special about the human race? Our emotions, our unpredicability, our souls?
Its certainly a topic worth discussing soon as its predicted that the artificial intelligence industry will be worth well over $10Billion within the next ten years. Look how far we have come in the past decade? There is surely a world of true technological breakthroughs just around the corner.
