Men are increasingly turning to virtual assistants to have sexually explicit conversations, it has been claimed. Ilya Eckstein, the chief executive of Robin Labs, said his company's virtual assistant - Robin - was used by some men for up to 300 conversations a day. He told the Times that it was "mostly teenagers and truckers without girlfriends" who were turning to the virtual world. "As well as the people who want to talk dirty, there are men who want a deeper sort of relationship or companionship." Deborah Harrison, a writer for Microsoft's Cortana, told the Virtual Assistant Summit earlier this year that "a good chunk of the volume of early-on inquiries" were about the chatbot's sex life.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 28, 2016 16:01 UTC