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What does the trend in using artificial intelligence for companionship and romantic love mean for human society?

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After hands-on time with Project Ava, we polled readers to see if they’d buy it. The results and debate are quite revealing.

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The popularity of AI companions - computer-generated in apps as visually life-like people - is understandable when real-life ...