#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
September 5, 2020
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Episode 121 · September 5, 2020
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
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#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
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<p>Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:<br />
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<p><strong>Episode links:</strong><br />
Eugenia’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ekuyda">https://twitter.com/ekuyda</a><br />
Replika’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/myreplika">https://twitter.com/myreplika</a><br />
Replika’s Website: <a href="https://replika.ai">https://replika.ai</a></p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
06:18 – Loneliness<br />
13:54 – Can AI alleviate loneliness?<br />
18:13 – Love<br />
20:49 – Russia in the 1990’s<br />
31:47 – Chernobyl<br />
41:35 – Communism<br />
49:21 – Losing a friend<br />
57:55 – Mortality<br />
1:10:41 – Replika origin story<br />
1:59:37 – Bringing people back to life with AI<br />
2:05:37 – Relationship with Replika<br />
2:18:27 – Can you form a connection with text alone?<br />
2:27:45 – Does an AI companion need a body?<br />
2:30:20 – Her<br />
2:37:24 – GPT-3 for conversation<br />
2:43:48 – We should be nice to AI<br />