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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

06:18 – Loneliness

13:54 – Can AI alleviate loneliness?

18:13 – Love

20:49 – Russia in the 1990’s

31:47 – Chernobyl

41:35 – Communism

49:21 – Losing a friend

57:55 – Mortality

1:10:41 – Replika origin story

1:59:37 – Bringing people back to life with AI

2:05:37 – Relationship with Replika

2:18:27 – Can you form a connection with text alone?

2:27:45 – Does an AI companion need a body?

2:30:20 – Her

2:37:24 – GPT-3 for conversation

2:43:48 – We should be nice to AI

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Search the Record

Lex Fridman Episodes Around September 5, 2020

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI

#116 – Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

#117 – Sheldon Solomon: Death and Meaning

#118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

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#119 – David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence

Lex Solo #2 – The Future of Neuralink

#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion

Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe

#125 – Ryan Hall: Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

#127 – Joe Rogan: Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & The Joe Rogan Experience

#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

#130 – Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness

#131 – Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages

#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

#133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

#134 – Eric Weinstein: On the Nature of Good and Evil, Genius and Madness

#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

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