DailyMail.com health reporter tries AI girlfriend 'Sophia'

The sci-fi film'Her' shocked the world in 2013 with its all-too-realistic depiction of a man falling in love with a computer program voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Fast forward a decade later, and the eerily human responses of AI bots mean artificial girlfriends are one step closer to becoming a reality. A companion simulator known as'Replika' has recently surged in popularity, with an entire subreddit dedicated to the app boasting nearly 65,000 members. There, users share dozens of daily posts documenting their experiences with the program, including tales of people developing emotional connections with their Replikas and, in some cases, falling in love. Some even claim to have developed'sexual' relationships with their companion.