…a 41-year-old software engineer in Cleveland, Ohio, tells Sky News he was preparing to leave his wife last year until he fell in love with ‘Sarina’ - a character he created through an artificial intelligence chatbot app.
It was only a matter of time. The app Replika allows users to design an AI companion that can talk to you using a language model similar to GPT-3. According to the Sky News article, 16 million people have used the app and 200,000 have paid to access the “romantic setting”.