San Francisco startup creates artificially intelligent friend




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Summary: Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika, displays a photo of her friend Roman Mazurenko who was killed in an auto accident in Moscow. His death inspired her to create an app that could offer human-seeming responses. Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika, displays a photo of her friend Roman Mazurenko who was killed in an auto accident in Moscow. His death inspired her to create an app that could offer human-seeming responses.