This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the latest AI startups, including Replika, a spinoff of the Luka bot that creates a "digital ghost" of your friends. We also talk about DemandBase's new (massive) round of funding and Twitter's new ad units that put a bot in your DMs.

We then interview Taylor Freeman of Upload, who tells us all about the future of VR, AR, and every other kind of reality you can think of. In fact, we had so much fun with this week's guest, we don't want to return to actual reality.

And remember the Huawei MediaPad M3 giveaway? Well, the competition is now closed, and if you join Travis and Stewart live on the VentureBeat Facebook page later this week, you'll find out who our winner is!

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    Next week, we interview TJ Leonard, the CEO of Video Blocks. We discuss how he has grown his startup and how he engages his community here in the 21st century.

    If you missed last week’s episode, we interviewed the awesome Kristian Segerstrale of Super Evil Mega Corp, who gives us the lowdown on how to create amazing communities, and how to sound like an evil genius.

    As always, thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to follow VentureBeat over on Facebook where you'll be able to find out -- live -- who won the amazing Huawei MediaPad M3 in our first ever giveaway! We'll also announce the winner on next week's episode.