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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles Jul 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:34 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, there've been some attempts, there've been like the character AI's, the replicas, um, but you saw with opening, you're right.

The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 19:21 Joanna Stern I told, I can find the prompt in here, but I told ChatGPT, and it took a bunch of reporting to figure out that I should ask ChatGPT to be the boyfriend, because I did test Replica and a few others, 5 times in the scene

Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:46 Alex Kantrowitz Not like the AI killing the world, uh, moment, but the fact that so many companies, well, not so many, it seems like, you know, OpenAI, Grog, maybe Replica, maybe some others, I'm not sure.

Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:31 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, if you have that sort of relationship with technology and you start asking at things that can search the web, uh, that's latitude that a company like Replica might have that Google doesn't.

Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts Jul 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:38 unnamed speaker I mean, you had the CEO of Replica on here a few months ago, I think it was like the companionship topic, you know, we've covered a good deal.

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree Jun 23, 2025 · 1 mention

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck Apr 28, 2025 · 1 mention

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality Apr 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:20 Alex Kantrowitz This reminds me very much of a conversation I had with the CEO of Replica, who mentioned that her, she also wants to build an AI assistant, and the path to being an AI assistant is to build a companion. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI Apr 2, 2025 · 3 mentions

His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:02 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, I just think that this is gonna start to become a bigger, like we had the CEO of Replica on, talking about how people are falling in love with their bots.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell Jan 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda Jan 15, 2025 · 55 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Let's speak with the CEO of Replica, the AI companion pioneer, about the future of our relationships with AI. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:50 Alex Kantrowitz So let's just talk a little bit about replica to begin with. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:55 Eugenia Kuyda People were falling in love with replicas, uh, even when we just started it, uh, and the tech was so limited. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:21 Alex Kantrowitz But does Replica, does Replica do that today? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:59 Eugenia Kuyda Um, so if you think about replica act one was to build an AI that could be in a good relationship with people who maybe, you know, feel like they need one. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:04 Alex Kantrowitz Let's say replica is able to either cure some loneliness or make it a little bit more tolerable to be alone. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:04 Eugenia Kuyda And we had extremely creative, like really creative ways of doing that, which allowed us to build replica early on powered mostly by sequence, sequence models with a lot of, um, extra fun things that were built on top. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:59 Alex Kantrowitz Like what's the tech mix that works for replica? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:38 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Eugenia Kuida, the founder and CEO of Replica. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:08 Alex Kantrowitz The beginning of the replica story is, is of course, um, you working to create a bot based off of a friend who had passed away using their emails and texts and to be able to speak with them again.
  • ▶ 51:00 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe I won't delete my replica.

Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots Feb 23, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 27:05 Gary Marcus Um, that, uh, on Replica, which is powered partly by large language models, um, they suddenly stopped having, what do they call them, erotic role play with their customers, and for some of those customers, that's like an important piece of…
  • ▶ 35:48 Blake Lemoine Seeing these systems as though they're people, and to date, these systems pretty consistently report being mistreated, or I mean, the replica chatbots would give horrible backstories. 3 times in the scene

Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:56 Gary Marcus There's going to be way more of these chatbots, be way more systems like replica, which is, I think made fairly careful with some other technology on top.
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