The restaurant could add a service charge for the WiFi. 
Posted on 01/01/2026 9:33:19 AM PST by DFG
Major dating apps like Bumble and Tinder have embraced AI, spending millions on tools that aim to enhance their efficiency and the user experience.
But, one new company — the London-based Eva AI — is taking it a step further. They’re betting solely on artificial intelligence romantic partners — and think there’s a market for people who want to take their chatbot boyfriends and girlfriends out on the town.
In February, the company is launching a pop-up cafe in Manhattan that they hope to make a permanent fixture.
Tables will have special perches for people’s phones, so they can more easily interact with AI partners while sipping cocktails.
“Being able to sit across from your AI in a real venue makes the event meaningful,” Eva AI CEO Tany Save told me.
“For many people, their AI partners are a meaningful part of everyday lives, someone they can talk to about personal worries, daily challenges, or with whom they enjoy witty, fun conversations,” she added. “Going on a real-world date with their AI companion is a natural next step.”
While the percentage of people interested in virtual companionship is still small, it’s growing: 23% of millennials have used AI as a romantic companion and 33% of Gen Z has, according to Dynata in association with The Kinsey Institute.
“AI partners provide people long-term, reliable emotional support, entertainment, and space for self-expression,” Save said. “We know that some of our users are having really long-term relationships with a character lasting more than a year.”
Other newcomers in the dating space are also betting big on AI.
Bethenny Frankel has just launched The Core, a high-end dating platform and matchmaking service that uses AI in its proprietary algorithm to match people. Membership dues start around $1200 annually.
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Yep this is hard to conceive of.
“hard to conceive”
Yep. Intellectually AND physically.
Lonely hearts club members don’t get many offers go fake only thing left.
The restaurant could add a service charge for the WiFi.
I guess we didn’t have to wait until 2095
Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfjzmYZvTw
“Surrogates”
“In 2054, everybody in the Central Georgia Metropolis who can afford one owns a surrogate are trying to figure who or what is frying surrogates with megavolt electrical charges and police lieutenant Harvey Greer has to find out.”
Could solve the 72 perpetual virgin quest. Give the horn dog jihadist a virtual virgin...a few mechanical sleeves...and a collection bin, and viola...no terrorism necessary
If I owned that “resturant” I’d make these pitiful wretches pay for 2 meals and also charge the other patrons extra to watch the happy couple interact with each other and heckle them.
Will they have private rooms upstairs so the intimacy can continue?
Like a dog humping a leg
Just disgusting. They should have some hot sexy blow up life like dolls in the back room for these perverts to relieve their sexual tension.
As a real live female, I don’t get it either!
I guess these guys wouldn’t have a clue what to do with a real live flesh-and-blood female. They prefer some idealized fantasy AI thing or anime cartoon character that enables them to live out some weird fantasy in their heads.
The fake AI/anime gals always look perfect and say just what they want to hear. They never put on a few pounds or have a bad hair day or nag them to empty the trash and pick up their dirty socks.
Seriously, it’s sad. At bottom, it’s really just high tech onanism.
Actually, I visualized a lot of phones being stolen. Sort of like leaving your wallet on the table in a restaurant.
Unemployment in hell must be way up with demons being displaced by AI.
She’ll order the most expensive entree on the menu and hardly touch it.
I’ll have the $55 fast charging Port please.
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