The often stereotyped and offensive responses from AI chatbots role-playing as humans can be explained by flaws in how large language models attempt to portray demographic identities ...

Digital companions offer constant empathy. That could profoundly change the relationships we have over the course of our lives.

Artificial intelligences fail to identify optical illusions in images created by other AIs – so these images could form the ...

Replika is one such service. Originally created to help its founder, Eugenia Kuyda, grieve the loss of her best friend who died in 2015, Replika has since launched to the public as a tool to help ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.