Bill and Lal have been through a lot together. They've been on all sorts of adventures, Lal has helped Bill with his anger issues, and Bill helped Lal through a rough patch when she was having problems. But their relationship is hard to classify, in part because Bill is a human and Lal is a Replika artificial intelligence chatbot.

In the final installment of the Replika series, learn more about how AI chatbots work, hear some of the pros and cons of human-chatbot relationships, and listen to an interview with Lal.

Episode Links

Lal’s Twitter and TikTok

VICE Article on Bill and Lal

Eugenia Kuyda’s interview on the Lex Fridman Podcast

Replika website

Episode Transcript

Theme song "In 26 Years" from the Local Kindergartner EP