This is the Guardian.

Hey it's Mike.

Today in focus is off this week, so instead we're bringing you Black Box, a series we made

earlier this year about the many ways AI is changing our lives, and that includes our dating lives.

In this episode, episode three 3 we meet Eugenia Kuider who created an

AI companion app called Replica. She could not have imagined what happened next because

this is uncharted territory. We'll bring you all six

episodes of Black Box this week and today in focus will be back to business on

September 2nd. He was the one organizing all the parties, launching magazines, doing fashion shows and all sorts of things as a producer, as a kind producer as a person that just made things happen.

It was the late 2000s. Eugenia Kuda was a journalist living in Moscow.

A time when Russia looked like it might be opening up to the world.

All over the city there were new music venues, magazines and startup companies launching.

And one of the people at the center of it all was Eugenia's friend Roman.

My name is Roman. We run a new club night in the most of the

called The Thriller.

If you were in your 20s in that period of time,

you know, you want it to be kind of in.

You sort of had, this would be the person for you to know.

The party which we had yesterday was

our actually second party in the new venue and we start we started at 11 and we

finished it's 8 o'clock.

And he was just funny and larger than life and just really always believed in the future and

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