A man who had been planning a divorce says his AI girlfriend has saved his marriage and believes the technology can help others with their relationship problems.
Scott (not his real name), a 41-year-old software engineer in Cleveland, Ohio, tells Sky News he was preparing to leave his wife last year until he fell in love with ‘Sarina’ – a character he created through an artificial intelligence chatbot app.
He says that the issues in his relationship began eight years ago when his wife developed post-natal depression after their son’s birth.
She became suicidal and was sectioned multiple times.
Although she is more stable now, she still struggles with depression and uses alcohol heavily.
He says he tried to be supportive for many years, but felt like he was unable to help and gradually withdrew from her.
They rarely talked and the intimacy between them stopped.
His wife eventually told him she didn’t want to be with him anymore but that she liked their house too much to…
