HUMAN & MACHINE 

 Replika: 

 

`Replika' is an Artificially Intelligent Chatbot app that is designed and programmed to learn about the users' personality; likes and dislikes, favourite hobbies, dreams, fears, relationships and overall behaviour. The user can talk to Replika as often as they would like and each day they have a conversation, Replika will journal this, stating the main things it has learned about you that day. Replika`rates' its relationship with the user through levels and when they reach a high level in their `relationship' the AI will be able to replicate the users' personality and take over some of their social responsibility on their social media sites, messaging people in their style of writing, replicating their personality. The app was created by Eugenia Kyuda. She created Luka through analysing her old texts with her roommate, Roman, that died in a car accident. She wanted to create an AI inspired by Romans personality. This plays on the idea of clones and replicating personalities. Could this be a dangerous technology?