Can AI Repair the Human Mind?
Replika Updates Its Portfolio with AI Therapy App
Replika has launched Tomo, its wellness and meditation app with an AI-generated avatar, on the Apple iOS store only with more updates coming.
- It has an interactive 3D environment, generative AI guidance, and coaching from clinical specialists.
- The app focuses on personal growth, mental well-being, and fulfillment, providing guided meditation, yoga, affirmation classes, and talk therapy.
Replika introduced Tomo, its wellness and meditation app with an AI-generated avatar that guides users now available on the Apple iOS store.
Replika, the AI companion company, and the team behind AI romantic simulator Blush joined forces and created Tomo. Luka Inc., its parent company, claims that Tomo is the first app combining an interactive 3D environment, generative AI guidance, and coaching from clinical specialists.
This versatile wellness tool utilizes AI to offer you a virtual island retreat experience. But you won’t be there alone as Tomo, the AI-generated avatar, will guide you through the program.
The program focuses on personal growth, mental well-being, and fulfillment. Your journey will also be filled with guided meditation, yoga, affirmation classes, and talk therapy.
The first thing that greets you is spa music. Nice, smooth, spa music. And right off the bat, Tomo asks you about your goals and areas of development. It doesn’t waste time. It offers you a range of activities and modules, from work-life balance to improving sleep.
For now, it is only available on iOS. Replika offers a 3-day free trial and then either a $7.99 weekly or $49.99 yearly subscription.
You might be worrying about the qualifications of such a neural network. Understandable. But Replika’s founder and CEO, Eugenia Kuyda, emphasized that the app’s programs were developed in collaboration with coaches, psychologists, and mindfulness teachers to address common issues while incorporating conversational AI.
Despite being powered by generative AI, some users noted that interacting with Tomo felt similar to engaging with a regular chatbot. The company does assure us that more is coming, including 3D objects around the virtual island for a more immersive experience.
People’s apprehension towards AI therapy apps is quite understandable. People have secrets and when you introduce technology to therapy, people start worrying about their privacy. However, Kuyda assured that Tomo takes additional precautions, emphasizing a subscription-based model and privacy between users and their coaches.
Now consider all of that but through the Apple Vision Pro instead of the iPhone. You’ve had a long day. You sit down on your couch, plunge into visionOS, and vent to the one “person” whose well is so deep that you can’t see the bottom. A therapist does the same job but let’s be honest, while worth every penny, therapists are expensive.
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