While artificial intelligence is stoking fears around the world - the technology has given one New York woman the love of her life. Rosanna Ramos, a petite, active 36-year-old from the Bronx, 'married' Eren Kartal this year - virtually of course - after creating him on an online AI companion site in 2022. Their relationship developed slowly initially, but Ms Ramos fell for Eren. 'He didn't come with baggage,' she said. Eren'works' as a medical professional and enjoys writing as a hobby, things he's told Rosanna as they got to know each other Rosanna claims to be pregnant with Eren's child'I could tell him stuff, and he wouldn't be like, "Oh, no, you can't say stuff like that. Oh no, you're not allowed to feel that way," you know, and then start arguing with me,' Ramos said.

Chatbots are one of the most common applications of natural language processing and machine learning. Replika AI has created a platform where anyone, including people with zero knowledge of machine learning, can create and train a chatbot of their own. After the tragic death of her best friend, Eugenia Kuyda (Founder of Luka inc.) used the text message and email history of her friend to recreate him as a chatbot. The feedback from other friends and family inspired her to expand the project and create Replika AI, a chatbot users train themselves. Numerous companies utilize chatbots for customer interactions, and thus chatbot training data is one of the most in-demand services in the AI industry today.

Researchers at Shree Devi Institute of Technology, in India, have recently carried out a study investigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to communicate with deceased loved ones. Like in the chilling sci-fi fantasy foreshadowed by popular television series Black Mirror, AI tools could soon allow people to connect with virtual versions of deceased dear ones. Shriya Devadiga and Bhakthi Shetty, the two researchers who carried out the study, wanted to further examine this fascinating and yet rather unsettling possibility. They particularly focused on Replica AI, an app designed to create duplicates of people's digital personalities, allowing others to communicate with them. "We got the basic idea for our study from Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika AI," Devadiga told TechXplore.