Symposium Stockholm 2016: Eugenia Kuyda

The founder of Luka, an artificial intelligence company, explains creating a chatbot to honor her best friend

When Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman passed away last year, it was the first time the CEO of Luka lost someone so close—and she was unaccustomed to experiencing such grief. Luka, which Kuyda founded, is an artificial intelligence company that builds conversational bots, chatbots, and was the first company to publicly launch an English-speaking chatbot based on an artificial neural network. Roman was a start-up …