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Marry Me, Google: 450,000 Indians Pop the Question to Virtual Assistant

By Jenna Owsianik
April 18, 2018
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Feelings continue to grow for our AI companions.

A photo of Google voice assistant on a phone.

After learning last year that 25% of voice assistant users admitted having sexual fantasies about the technology, it's perhaps no surprise that such lust has been evolving into something more.

In fact, it appears life is imitating art, particularly the film Her, in which a man develops romantic feelings for his operating system.

According to Quartz, a whopping 450,000 marriage proposals have been made to Google's voice assistant from people in India. The figure reportedly comes from a statement Google Vice President Rishi Chandra made at the launch of the Google Home speaker in New Delhi.

But this isn't an isolated case. Quartz also points out that in 2016 Amazon said 250,000 people had proposed to its voice assistant, Alexa. The humanoid robot Sophia, created by Hanson Robotics in the likeness of Audrey Hepburn, also turned down a request for wedded bliss at tech festival in Bombay.

Of course, proposing to a voice assistant could be a joke, done out of boredom, or be a simple test to hear whether it has a witty response. Most people realize these AI systems are not sentient and robot-human unions are not legally recognized.

However, a lack of sentience and legality doesn't mean someone can't fall for a robot. Time will tell how many marriage requests were made in pure jest and how many had some hope or longing behind them.

Image sources: Kaufdex

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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