Do you remember that Black Mirror episode which tells the story of a young woman whose boyfriend is killed in a car accident? Later on she discovered that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating him.

Seems like it’s a reality now 😲

Video below is a story behind Replika AI. Replika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you.

It's strange and fascinating - but the story behind it is even better.

Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend died in 2015. Using a chatbot structure she developed, she entered their messaging history into a Google-built neural network, creating a bot she could interact with. It was the earliest version of Replika, a bot that, as you interact with it, turns into a digital representation of you.

This video makes me think about one interesting point nowadays - what it means to be human in a world increasingly filled with robots 🤖

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGqMVuAk04