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Unusual Love: why persons are falling for his or her AI companions

Director-writer Spike Jonze’s 2013 sci-film Her, coincidentally set in 2025, depicts a delicate however doomed romance between a lonely author Theodore and his private working system Samantha. Ultimately (spoiler alert), Theodore breaks down as he discovers Samantha is in a relationship with 8,316 different individuals and computer systems, and in love with 641 of them. …