The companions seem impressively human. They remember conversations and use familiar verbal tics. Sometimes they even mistake ...

Ask a generative AI model for dinner ideas and it'll spit out recipes. Say it's your girlfriend and it'll flirt with you. The creator of Replika, Eugenia Kuyda, was an early player in the ...

Replika’s roots trace back to a personal tragedy when Eugenia lost a close friend. She fed their conversations into a language model to create a digital version of her friend. This experiment ...

For the report, Common Sense Media worked with Stanford University researchers to test three popular AI companion services: Character.AI, Replika and Nomi. While mainstream AI chatbots like ...

AI companions programmed to forge emotional bonds are no longer confined to movie scripts. They are here, operating in a ...