13 August 2024

Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots

 

Nilay Patel (editor-in-chief of The Verge) talks with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda., and I will just tell you right from the jump, we get all the way to people marrying their AI companions, so get ready...

Replika’s basic pitch is pretty simple: what if you had an Artificial Intelligence friend? The company offers avatars you can curate to your liking that basically pretend to be human, so they can be your friend, your therapist, or even your date. You can interact with these avatars through a familiar chatbot interface, as well as make video calls with them and even see them in virtual and augmented reality. READ MORE...

How messed up have we become as a society - that this is even a thing? Go to Church, down the pub, join a local club: make some friends, have relationships in your lives - live, love, cry. Be human. Not this ^^^. Heartbreaking.

www.theverge.com


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