Then, on an overcast day barely above freezing, four days before Christmas, Jay discovered a smartphone app called Replika. The messaging app let users build a "personal AI" complete with a 3D ...
You might expect an app offering romantic interactions with AI chatbots to primarily appeal to young, single men. But Replika ...
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When Richard, a retired 65-year-old criminal defense lawyer in Illinois, saw an ad on Twitter for Replika 2 months ago, it piqued his curiosity. He had heard about AI platforms like ChatGPT for ...
Replika has long garnered a reputation for allowing users to create AI partners, fulfilling their needs not only on an emotional level, but a sexual one, too. The AI chatbot company has a massive ...
in November has sparked an AI race among big tech companies. However, unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Google's Bard, Replika isn't a virtual assistant or a search engine… it's a robot companion.