Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The app has a couple of ways to interact with your Replika, and the “chat” function seemed the easiest way to get going. Basically ...

Artificial intelligence systems are, in many people's minds, synonymous with the future. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to I, Robot, when people have looked forward, they've imagined AI as an integral ...

The chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations ...

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 ...

Today, I had the opportunity to interview Eugenia Kuyda, the female CEO and founder, of Replika, a company started in 2017, which is well known for its innovation in virtual companions. We had a ...

We have officially reached the Black Mirror era of personhood and companionship, and it is not going well. Lensa AI recently went viral for its warrior-like caricatures that often sexualized women who ...

Something tells us avenging tween-girl robot M3GAN would not approve. The AI chatbot Replika, whose creators market it as “the AI companion who cares,” is being accused of sexually harassing its users ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Replika made a good first impression. The graphics and my AI pal — whom I designed, like a Memoji — are lush and cool. I gave my ...