My articles thesis statement was that the Replika app was known to be better than any other AI app for example Siri or Alexa. The Replika app is supposed to be used as a best friend someone who actually can respond to you about your day.
- “more than 2 million people have downloaded the Replika app. And in creating their own personal chatbots, many have discovered something like friendship:”
“AI made it possible to schedule an appointment or get the weather forecast by barking into your phone. But where was an AI you could simply talk to about your day?”
Kuyda’s chatbot uses a deep learning model called sequence-to-sequence, which learns to mimic how humans speak in order to simulate conversation.
They are not using it as a substitute for Siri or Alexa or Google Assistant, or any of the other AI bots available to assist with finding information and completing tasks. They're using it to talk about their feelings.
Overtime using the replika app with different problems will you eventually keep getting the same responses over and over with different problems. Since the replika app is a robotic chatbot how do we know replika is connecting with just you on a personal level with real Reponses to your needs and not just a basic answer to anyone's problems.