Brilliant! She now needs to be picked up by some American or British reality shows and see if someone falls for her or maybe Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mike Lazaridis should also incorporate her software in the next Gen phones or OS systems. GF or Wife 2.0? yes?

with this invention and the ability to clone humans, soon we will not need any women around us. Hahahahahaaaa

...although, that said, I'm surprised he didn't just cop out and call it "Chii."

Still, naming it "Aiko" is just as suspicious - it's Japanese for "love child".

It's unfortunate that this man has no real world skills,. Yes he built this AI sex toy for himself, but will this be a future trend? God help us all.

Ok, so he wanted a petite asian lady and really wasn't going to meet one (because he spent his life in a dark room with too many computers). Surely he could have just bought a real woman online for less than that? She would have really been able to cook too.

Sad.

His research may eventually prove interesting in the field of artificial intelligence, but somehow I doubt it.
What is certain is that this guy needs help, fast.
A robot that likes to shop for clothes ? Excuse me, does he really think he endowed it with feelings ?
The day we really actually make an AI worthy of the name, we might be surprised to discover that it prefers talking with computers.

.......in seeing her/it as an alternative to a real woman. That's even sadder than those who pay a "lady" to pretend to be theirs for an hour or so.

There is undoubtedly some scientific interest in this type of R&D but if anyone sees any social benefit in this then I feel sorry for them.

The robot's source code has recently been leaked:

while()
{
aiko.nag();
}

What the hell?!

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The inventor is lucky that he suffered only debt and nervous breakdown. Many have fared worse.