As AI has gotten smarter, more pervasive and more human-like, chatbots are taking off. Companies like Replika and character.ai invite users to create personalized digital confidants that people can ...

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 ...

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 ...