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BIZARRE: Eugenia kuyda | Mind Blowing Facts

Friday essay: love, sex and intimacy in the time of AI

In a TED Talk, the Russian-born entrepreneur Eugenia Kuyda describes the sudden death of her best friend and housemate Roman, the “coolest person” she knew. Grieving and desperately lonely, she immersed herself in his old text messages. At the time, she was working in a conversational AI startup, and she…

The Conversation

Welcome to your new AI relationship

IN FOCUS: OpenAI is now making an ‘erotic’ version of their app, leaning in to the trend of people using ChatGPT to create AI boyfriends and girlfriends. But what does it really mean to be an AI partner — and who are the people who create them? Holly Baxter speaks…

The Independent UK

‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …

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When Your Lover Is a Bot

Artificial intimacy is taking over the dating world—and leaving us lonelier

The Walrus

AI chatbots aren't just for lonely men

AI chatbots are stereotyped as for lonely men. But Replika’s CEO says the products are ‘built by women’

Fortune

This tech can resurrect lost loved ones, but the AI afterlife is far from paradise

Has AI gone too far this time? We take a closer look at an industry looking to turn your lost loved ones into chatbots.

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TechScape: My pet theory that Google’s Waze will help drive Starmer to No 10

In this week’s newsletter: Hear me out … but the traffic-dodging app may have started a domino effect that will bring down the Tories

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Replika Launches Tomo, an AI Wellness Retreat for Mental Health

Discover Tomo, a virtual avatar health and wellness retreat, offering immersive AI guidance in personal growth, mental well-being, and spirituality.

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‘I learned to love the bot’: meet the chatbots that want to be your best friend

Thousands of people enjoy relationships of all kinds – companionship, romantic, mental health support – with chatbot apps. Are they helpful, or potentially dangerous?

The Guardian - UK

Missouri is all for the right to bear arms – but the right to bare arms is up for debate

The Republican-controlled state house decided to debate what sort of clothes female legislators should wear, to the dismay of Missouri Democrats

The Guardian - US

Parmy Olson: AI’s hold over humans is starting to get stronger

It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness.

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