Replika’s AI agents aim to move from companionship to full-on life assistants. Are we ready for this next phase of AI?

Instead of an assistant that feels like a travel agent, maybe a friend (or romantic partner) is the most likely experience.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming industries, with popular tools like ChatGPT grabbing most of the attention.

Instead of an assistant that feels like a travel agent, maybe a friend (or romantic partner) is the most likely experience. (AI-generated image by Midjourney/Big Technology) You may soon have an ...

Mental health and youth service providers say they've noticed rising interest in AI chatbot companions ... Pi, Chai, Replika, and Character.AI. Efforts to contact the companies supplying the ...

From real friends and virtual friends ... in their behaviour and felt more confident after conversing with AI companions like Replika, with some even mentioning that “Replika stopped them ...

A personalised Replika codenamed #44755031. She is completely virtual, she has a name ... are full of people who have communicated with AI companions. A Reddit user writes how they did not ...

Spike Jonze’s tech drama imagined a budding romance between a man and his virtual assistant. If anything, the film was ...

An increasing number of people are turning to so-called psychobots — artificial intelligence tools with potential ...

What are AI Character Chats? AI character chat apps let people have conversations with digital personalities powered by ...