Lex Fridman Podcast
#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
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Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast:
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Loneliness
– Can AI alleviate loneliness?
– Love
– Russia in the 1990’s
– Chernobyl
– Communism
– Losing a friend
– Mortality
– Replika origin story
– Bringing people back to life with AI
– Relationship with Replika
– Can you form a connection with text alone?
– Does an AI companion need a body?
– Her
– GPT-3 for conversation
– We should be nice to AI
– Book recommendations
– Russian language
– Meaning of life
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