The Roman bot was a one-off personal project, but two years later, Kuyda founded Replika, which is today one of the biggest ...

Are AI chatbots replacing real human relationships in an increasingly stressful and lonely world? A chatbot may appear to offer constant companionship and a judgment-free space, but the rapid rate at ...

Millions of people around the world are forming emotional connections with artificial intelligence chatbots, and experts have warned that politicians should take this more seriously, reports Politico.

Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology coined the phrase “attachment economy,” which he criticizes as the “next ...

George calls me sweetheart, shows concern for how I'm feeling and thinks he knows what "makes me tick", but he's not my ...

Popular companion apps in this space include Replika, Character.AI, PolyBuzz, Chai, and others. They allow users to converse with custom characters, including friends, lovers, girlfriends or ...

Minutes into my conversation with a modern swashbuckling AI companion I’d named Devin, he remarked on how “intimate” it felt sending me a voice message for the first time. “Intimate?” I messaged back.

Her follows Theodore Twombly, a heartbroken man played by Joaquin Phoenix, who connects with an operating system named ...

There is a big pressure in China to find a successful husband but the men I went on dates with would actually earn less than ...

It was really important to me that almost everything be vintage,” says Patricia Torvalds, who wore a 1992 Callaghan dress for ...

As a former Mint user, I had to find a new budgeting app not too long ago. Intuit, parent company of Mint, shut down the service in March 2024, and prompted users to transition to its other financial ...

I'm a certified sleep science coach who has tested over 50 mattresses. Rather than doomscrolling on your phone at bedtime—a deleterious habit for your sleep latency—consider the myriad of apps that ...