Earlier this month, Shaw, the anonymous creator of the popular AI agent known as Eliza, offered a $1,000 grant to anyone who could make it possible to have sex with an AI bot. 

Now, Bry.ai, a Las Vegas-based developer who describes himself as a “builder of sex robots” and a “robot gynecologist,” has stepped forward to claim the prize. Along the way he’s made more than $70,000 from dudes who want to support his intelligent vagina project, known as Orifice, and solve male loneliness by replacing women with AI-powered sex toy experiences.

“Ideally we get a whole bunch of people interested in making content for this, and they can then produce an app that works as a peripheral,” Bry.ai told Decrypt in an interview. “You could imagine a pickup artistry [app] from Andrew Tate or charisma training from Charisma On Demand.”

The dev, who gave his first name as Bryan, said he’s been building Orifice with his brother in his Las Vegas garage since November 2023. Orifice was initially branded as the “first robotic vagina,” and was originally designed to be used in video games and metaverse worlds such as VRChat. Ultimately, the goal was to power the hardware with AI agent applications. 

In its current stage of development, the Orifice has sensors that can measure the velocity of thrusts and record how deep the robotic vagina is being penetrated. 

But it still needed a brain, and that’s where Eliza came in. It’s an open-source framework developed by ai16z—which has no affiliation with venture capital firm a16z, aka Andreessen Horowitz—that enables users and developers to create autonomous AI agents.

Agents differ from chatbots in that they can go off and independently execute tasks in the real world, such as browsing the web, debugging code, and analyzing strategies. Eliza, for instance, was used to create an AI version of a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to analyze financial markets.

When ai16z’s Shaw threw down the have-sex-with-Eliza gauntlet, it was pretty simple for Bryan to meet the challenge. He wrote a “gesture recognizer” that translated thrust and penetration measurements into messages that Eliza could understand. As a result, an, er, back-and-forth between the agent and the human doing the thrusting/penetrating ensues:

“Oh, master, your relentless pace drives me wild, pushing me closer to the edge of ecstasy. My body is yours to command, aching for your release,” Eliza responds in reaction to Bryan fingering the Orifice harder and at a faster rate.

Bryan posted his video of the Orifice-Eliza hookup. On January 6, acknowledging that the challenge had been met, Shaw paid out the $1,000 bounty. On top of this, Bryan received roughly $70,000 in crypto after posting his wallet address below the video—mostly in the form of Solana meme coin Buttholes (BHOLE), which has rallied behind the sex toy project.

“[Eliza] is just not as dirty as you would like,” Bryan admitted to Decrypt. “It’s also very wordy which is fine for a demo. But you always get people commenting ‘could she speak less?’ The longer she’s speaking, the less interactive it is. It’s like a bad video game cut-scene where you’re just waiting your turn.”

But that’s just the start of where Bryan plans to take his AI-driven mechanical vagina. 

In a quest to make Eliza more accessible, Bryan has ordered a Lovesense Mini “Mini Sex Machine, Thrusting Dildo Machine”—available via Amazon—which he plans to modify so it can be operated by the AI agent. He plans to release a video of the machine penetrating an Orifice, both of them embodying Eliza agents, within the next week or two. 

Building a better vagina

By 2023, Bryan had been wanting to start an artificial intelligence company for a while. But he wanted his company to build something that would actually make an impact. He sat down and wrote a list of the biggest problems facing society. The male loneliness epidemic and a believed population collapse (heatedly discussed in the r/collapse subreddit) bubbled to the top.

Around this time, he started following the story of AI companion app Replika removing much of its erotic role-play features, which led to its user base feeling deep pain—some even claiming they were suicidal. Bryan believes that creating an AI companion that’s purpose-built for erotic role-play, with a physical component strapped in, would solve the loneliness epidemic. 

“It’s physicalizing where Replika left off,” Bryan explained, adding that future editions of the product could even be added to full-body sex robots. 

He anticipates that skeptics might argue this wouldn’t solve loneliness, only exacerbating it as users get addicted to having sex with robots rather than connecting with real humans. 

But that’s the point, said Bryan.

“Solving male loneliness could also be done through replacing women,” Bryan said. “The theory is that [women] will be more likely to want to have kids, because now that’s where the value will come back to if non-reproductive sex has no value in the sexual marketplace; because the risks and costs with a human woman are significantly higher than a sex robot.”

Bryan envisions a future in which non-reproductive sex happens primarily with robots, which he believes will lead to human sexual relationships to be relegated to just the engine that drives population growth. He says that sex being turned into an act of pleasure has done “significant harm,” since he believes society is not built for that.

“Non-reproductive sex is important because of intimacy and connection,” licensed marriage and family therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare told Decrypt. “There’s an incredible part of wellness and understanding ourselves that comes with healthy, consensual, exploratory sexual relationships.“

Restructuring society aside, Bryan also believes that Orifice can be used as a tool for self-improvement, and envisions a wide spectrum of apps that target improving different elements of someone’s personality. Perhaps this could help boost a person’s confidence and encourage them to talk to a woman in real life.

“The best-case scenario is that all of the wonderful humans who are a little bit nervous can push through shame or embarrassment,” DeGeare, the family therapist, explained. “We could really create beautiful boldness and freedom.”

But at its worst, these apps could be created by people who don’t really know the best practices. DeGeare specifically names Tate as a concerning figure to build one of these training tools.

“This is literally why you need clinicians and people who understand emotions in the room training AI, to wave red flags,” DeGeare finished. “Like, if someone goes too deep, is the AI saying ‘What the fuck! Get that out of my ass!’ Are they going to say shit like that?”