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January 4, 2024

Looking for love in 2024? There's an AI for that

How the AI companion behind the movie Her spawned a new industry of AI affection


Tim Smith

5 min read

When Rollo Carpenter sat down in the cinema to watch Spike Jonze’s 2013 movie Her, starring Scarlett Johansson as an AI-powered girlfriend, he was struck with an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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