Replika
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
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| Founder 👔 | Eugenia Kuyda |
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| 🌐 Website | replika |
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Replika is an artificial intelligence chatbot mobile app. The main goal of Replika is to give users a best friend by artificial intelligence gradually replicating their personality by talking through text messages and by memory recalling of conversations.[1][2] The app was launched in spring 2017 and, as of March 2018, has accumulated 2.5 million users.[3]
History[edit]
Replika was created by Luka, a team of software engineers from Moscow, Russia, which later moved to San Francisco, California, U.S.[4] The idea came from Eugenia Kuyda the Co-Founder and CEO of Luka, founded in 2013,[3] and first created a chatbot to recommend restaurants to users.[5] After experiencing the death of her close friend and business partner Roman Mazurenko in a car accident in 2015, Kuyda created a chatbot named after him that would interact with the user in a manner similar to Roman.[4][6][7] The concept of the application was to take Roman's text messages as data and create an artificial intelligence that would have the personality of Roman.[8]
In November 2017, Replika raised $6.5 million in a second Series A.[9]
Product[edit]
In March 2017, Kuyda launched Replika[10][11] and 1.5 million people signed up to be on the waiting list to download the app at its full release in November 2017.[12] The app quickly went viral with as many as 2.5 million users as of March 2018.[3] In January 2018, Luka also released the underlying AI software named CakeChat under open-source license. However, this version of the software that powers Replika is significantly different than the one Kuyda created to emulate her friend Mazurenko.[13]
The more the user engages with the app, the more the artificial intelligence (AI) begins to sound similar to the user.[14] The app has indicator showing the AI's development which can go as high as Level 50.[15]
Reception[edit]
Several media organizations have compared the technology to episodes of the television series Black Mirror[14][16] and the film Her.[17] In comparing Replika to the episode "Be Right Back", Bustle's James Loke Hale wrote, "Black Mirror-style science doesn't feel so far away, especially knowing about the origins of Replika."[18]
References[edit]
- ↑ Pardes, Arielle (2017-11-12). "What My Personal Chat Bot Is Teaching Me About AI's Future". Wired. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ Metz, Cade (2017-11-13). "Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Olson, Parmy (March 8, 2018). "This AI Has Sparked A Budding Friendship With 2.5 Million People". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Newton, Casey (2016-10-06). "When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him". The Verge. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ Huet, Ellen (2016-10-20). "This Chatbot Doesn't Just Talk to People. It Mimics Them". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ Hassler, Chelsea Adelaine (February 9, 2018). "Meet Replika, the AI Bot That Wants to Be Your Best Friend". Popsugar. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ "Replika app provides chats with dead friend". BBC News. February 20, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
- ↑ Stadtmiller, Mandy (2017-11-05). "You'll Never Be Alone Again With This One Weird Chatbot Trick". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ "Funding Snapshot: Replika Raises $6.5 Million Series A2 for Chatbot Technology". Wall Street Journal. 2017-11-30. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ↑ Margolis, Jonathan (August 20, 2017). "A vapid chatbot teaches the value of AI technology". Financial Times. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ↑ Mathis, Joel (March 17, 2017). "The Week in iOS Apps: Can an app be your friend? Replika wants to try". Macworld. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- ↑ Evangelista, Benny (November 1, 2017). "SF startup creates AI friend who's always willing to listen". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
- ↑ Pardes, Arielle (2018-01-31). "The Emotional Chatbots Are Here to Probe Our Feelings". Wired. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Hale, James Loke (October 27, 2017). "This Phone Bot Learns From You To Help You Cope With Loneliness, Fear, And So Much More". Bustle. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ↑ Grubstein, Xenia (May 11, 2018). "When a Chatbot Becomes Your Best Friend". Narrative.ly. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ Solon, Olivia (2018-01-09). "How close are we to a Black Mirror-style digital afterlife?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ Gabriel, Tallie (2017-08-08). "I Tried Being BFFs With an AI". Motherboard. Vice Media. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ Hale, James Loke (2017-10-27). "This Phone Bot Learns From You To Help You Cope With Loneliness, Fear, And So Much More". Bustle. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
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