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I heard about Replika for the first time about a month ago on a podcast and they were saying it is crazy good. People trying it out, out of curiosity and landing up developing feelings for their AI. Also people using it for company while single and then giving up on looking for a real life person as the found it so rewarding. Has a lot of users from memory it was several million active users. What a time to be alive.
greentricky-
I am very interested in a couple of the use cases (not the AI girlfriend bit...), and keep meaning to try out this vaguely similar FOSS project: https://github.com/StanGirard/quivr
Edit: the user stories are eerie:
when i'm logged in, I can subscri[b]e to a brain
If I'm the brain owner, i can change/remove the access of already invited/subscri[b]ed usersthose are just the top two!
chez_jay
What makes it even more Black Mirror is that the chatbot was from a service called Replika, which (ostensibly at least) creates an AI simulacrum/avatar of the user, trained by feeding it their conversation history/social media content.
And that service has its own macabre backstory: https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot