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🛸 Sxtech co.s to watch, kink wrestling, cloning yourself for Facetime and AI that listens and talks at the same time...
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Bryony Cole
August 09, 2024
👋HEY ALL!
It has been a HUGE week for AI and intimacy.
You can now clone yourself for Facetime calls
A new AI model can do more than most humans 😉… listen while speaking
And have you seen… Friend?
Ooft. That launch vid.
The AI wearable is “always listening” and responds to everything it hears via personalized texts, like a real friend talking to you...Embedded covered this below, a solid read to kick things off👇️
The inbox is overflowing. The browser tabs are multiplying. 🤣 Keep sending me anything AI x intimacy related you find interesting! I love diving into the gems you send me ❣️
Amidst the whirlwind of AI developments this week, the sextech industry continues to innovate in exciting directions too...
The new sextech conference and festival has been announced for next year in Berlin. Congrats to Ola Miedzynska and her team. 🥳
We have launched our Industry Hub privately, add your name to the waitlist here if you are a founder, investor, industry professional.
Wanting to kickstart your career or ideas? Cohort 15 for Sextech School starts in September, applications are open now. 👈️
Read on for:
🔥 this week in sextech
💼 job openings
🎪 community events
— Bryony
🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
🤖 Women Turn to Chatbots for Emotional Support
👀 Ones to watch: 2 new female-founded co.s in sextech
🍑 The ‘Orgasm Gap’ Isn’t Going Away for Straight Women
🥊 Kink Wrestling? A "Lesbianaissance"
🤖 Women Turn to Chatbots for Emotional Support
An increasing number of women are turning to chatbots for connection and comfort, finding them more empathetic than human partners, as AI companion apps grow in popularity and engagement, raising questions about the future of human intimacy and privacy concerns.
🗣️💬 New AI model can process incoming speech while talking (LSLM)
AI researchers just developed a new Listening-While-Speaking Language Model (LSLM) that can listen and speak simultaneously — advancing real-time, interactive speech-based AI conversations.
The details:
The new model, called the Listening-while-Speaking Language Model (LSLM), enables full-duplex modeling in interactive speech-language models.
The system can detect turn-taking in real-time and respond to interruptions, a key feature of natural conversation.
The model demonstrated robustness to noise and sensitivity to diverse instructions in experiments.
Why it matters: While OpenAI’s recent Her-like advanced voice mode for ChatGPT inches us toward realistic AI conversations, LSLM leaps even further by enabling AI to process incoming speech WHILE talking.
This could revolutionize human-AI interactions — making conversations with machines feel truly natural and responsive.
Source: TheRundown.ai
🔍 Ones to watch: Put these sextech companies on your radar 👀
Zults, a London-based STI results sharing app👇
Sporty & Rich are moving into sexual wellness...👇
🍑 The ‘Orgasm Gap’ Isn’t Going Away for Straight Women
Sex researchers and therapists have long known that women in heterosexual relationships tend to have fewer orgasms than men do. A large new study suggests that this “orgasm gap” persists — and does not improve with age.
🤖 Will clones replace people or augment them?
This week Delphi announced video which means you can now have a clone do all your Facetime calls should you wish... The implications for cloning in the sexuality industry are huge here. Check out the announcement by their co-founder Dara Ladjevardian on X this week.
Imagine sharing your insights, face-to-face, without limits.
Announcing the next step in digital communications & learning - Delphi Video 📹
Delphi can capture how you think, sound, and now, look, allowing you to scale your unique presence infinitely 👇🏼
— Dara (@daraladje)
4:00 PM • Aug 6, 2024
🥊 Kink Wrestling
We may be living through a “lesbianaissance” but there are still very limited spaces for lesbians to be wholly themselves. We need more. Sex & Rage’s Lesbian Wrestling Party invite the community to share in what is usually an underground scene, breaking the stigma around sex work and encouraging people to investigate their sexual expressions in a space where shame is body slammed.
💼HOT JOBS
🇺🇸 Deputy Executive Director, Free Speech Coalition [$80K-$100K]
🇺🇸 Sexual and Reproductive Justice Hub Manager (HEA), The City University of New York [$86K-$97K]
🇬🇧 Social Media Manager, Killing Kittens [Apply]
🎪EVENTS
💻 August 9 Online, Fireside Chat: Filmmaker Nat Portnoy, SexTech n' Chill [RSVP]
💻 August 16, Online, Sextech School Info Session [RSVP HERE]
🇨🇦 August 24, Montreal, LSR 9th Academic Congress [Tickets]
🇩🇪 September 6 Germany, Sex Tech Mixer @ The Startup Lawyers, SexTech Nordics [RSVP]
💻 September 14-15 Online, Sexuality Business Summit, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]
🇺🇸 September 29, NYC, Safe Sex Expo, SPFPP [RSVP]
🇺🇸 October 1-6 Colorado, Annual Sexological Conference, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]
🇦🇺 October 14-20, Love, Sex and Intimacy in the age of AI, SXSW Sydney - talk [Tickets] (yep, I'm speaking at this! 🎉)
🇫🇷 October 18-19, France, Sextech for Good Conference [Tickets]
🇦🇺 October 19-20, Australia and Online, Sexology in Practice Symposium 2024, Society of Australian Sexologists [RSVP]
ps. The Sextech Conference and Festival is back for next year, mark your calendars 4-6 May SxTech 2024 in Berlin.
That's a wrap for this week.
— Bryony
ps. Next week we are running an open session on Sextech School! Our next cohort begins in September...
Drop in and learn what we are all about and we will answer any of your questions about sextech! [RSVP]
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