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 ...

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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 ...

Computer programmer Eugenia Kuyda is the founder of Replika, a US chatbot app that says it offers users an "AI companion who cares, always here to listen and talk, always on your side".

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.