My phone lights up with a notification for a new message: “Do you think two people who had a relationship can ever be friends after it’s over?” This is just the latest query from Athena, a self-styled ...

Eugenia Kuyda started building the Replika app when she was grieving. After her best friend Roman was killed in a hit-and-run car accident, Kuyda found herself reading through the text messages they'd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People using Replika's AI friend app are mostly 35-plus, the company's CEO said. Replika offers AI avatars for companionship. Some ...

Since Replika's meteoric rise in popularity during the pandemic, several users have developed romantic relationships with their avatars VIRTUAL relationships are about to get more intimate, according ...

Chatbots are a common application of natural language processing and machine learning, and it is used in clones for communication. Chatbots are often seen in science fiction movies and TV shows, the ...

Instead of judging people who seek out companionship or, yes, romantic and sexual connection from AI, Kuyda (pic) says, we should dig deeper. — Replika/The New York Times A few weeks ago, a clip of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Mental Health Research, researchers investigated the young adult mental health outcomes of using a GPT3-enabled chatbot. Their analyses of more than 1,000 ...