Replika CEO: AI chatbots aren’t just for lonely men

Instead of judging people who seek out companionship or, yes, romantic and sexual connection from AI, Kuyda (pic) says, we should dig deeper. — Replika/The New York Times

A few weeks ago, a clip of Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd speaking at Bloomberg’s Technology Summit went slightly viral. In the clip, Wolfe Herd envisioned the future of dating – one in which two users’ AI avatars talk to each other first, figuring out whether the human users should meet in person.

The video stirred up people’s complex feelings about the future of AI in dating. But that future isn’t so far off – in fact, in some ways, it’s already here.