In an interview with Decoder host Nilay Patel, Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda delved into the topic of AI companionship, exploring the boundaries of digital relationships and the ethical ...

In 2015, Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend, Roman Mazurenko, was hit by a car and died. In the months after, Kuyda’s grief took a quintessentially modern form: obsessively reading the digital record her ...

culture examples of the fabled robot helpers. But over the past few years, AI technology has exponentially improved and made its way from the big screen to the smartphone screen. In late 2015, Elon ...

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 ...

Every lonely kid who reached puberty alongside the rise of instant messaging shares a mutual friend. Smarterchild, a chatbot built for AOL, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger was, for many internet users, their ...

There’s something strange happening on Reddit. People are advocating for a kinder, more considerate approach to relationships. They’re railing against the toxic treatment and abuse of others. And they ...