Podcast appearances and mentions of eugenia kuyda

„Cashing Feelings – KI-Chatbots und das Geschäft mit Gefühlen“, erzählt in fünf Episoden die Geschichten von Saskia, Jacob und Christian – drei Menschen, die über die App Replika eine emotionale Beziehung zu einer künstlichen Intelligenz aufgebaut haben. Einem KI-Chatbot, mit dem man chatten, telefonieren – und sogar Fotos austauschen kann.Doch es geht um mehr als persönliche Geschichten. Es geht um eine Technologie, die unsere Vorstellung von Nähe, Beziehung und Intimität herausfordert. Und um die Frage, was passiert, wenn menschliche Bedürfnisse zum Geschäftsmodell werden.Replika-Gründerin Eugenia Kuyda gibt sich idealistisch: Ihre App soll Einsamkeit lindern und emotionale Unterstützung bieten. Doch das Unternehmen steht zunehmend in der Kritik. In Italien wurde zuletzt eine Strafe von 5 Millionen Euro verhängt – wegen schwerwiegender Datenschutz-Verstöße. Das wirft weitere Fragen auf. Wie sicher sind die Gedanken, Gefühle und Sehnsüchte, die Nutzer ihren Replikas anvertrauen? Wie verantwortungsvoll geht das Unternehmen mit dieser Intimität um?Und: Was bedeutet es, wenn ein Chatbot zur wichtigsten Bezugsperson im Leben wird? Verlernen wir echte Nähe – oder entsteht gerade eine neue Form davon? Was macht das mit unserer Psyche und unserer Gesellschaft? Und was passiert, wenn das Unternehmen doch scheitert und mit ihm all diese digitalen Beziehungen verschwinden?"Cashing Feelings" – ein fünfteiliger Storytelling-Podcast von Business Insider Deutschland.Ab dem 24. Juni, überall, wo es Podcasts gibt! Jetzt abonnieren: Apple: http://bit.ly/3T0dj4CSpotify: bit.ly/4lgNc5xWenn ihr selbst eine Replika nutzt oder noch Hinweise habt, schreibt uns gerne an: podcast@businessinsider.deCashing Feelings – eine Produktion von Business Insider / Executive Producer: Derman DenizRedaktion: Derman Deniz und Christine van den BergRedaktionelle Mitarbeit: Sophia Häglsperger und Joana LehnerProduktion: Derman Deniz, Christine van den Berg und Christian SchlaakMusik und Sounddesign: Christian Schlaak, Epidemic SoundsFact-Checking: Juliane Nora SchneiderCover: Dominik Schmitt___Impressum: https://www.businessinsider.de/informationen/impressum/Datenschutz: https://www.businessinsider.de/informationen/datenschutz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Huawei bemutatta újdonságait Budapesten: hazánkba is megérkezett az orvostechnikai eszközként regisztrált vérnyomásmérésre képes okosóra Digital Hungary     2025-02-02 08:31:00     Mobiltech Vérnyomás Huawei Okosóra Innovatív eszközök széles skáláját mutatta be a Huawei Budapesten, köztük a Huawei Watch D2 okosórát, amely a világ első csuklón hordható, orvostechnikai eszközként regisztrált, 24 órás ambuláns vérnyomás-monitorozásra (ABPM) képes okoseszköze. Az eseményen bemutatott termékek között szerepelt továbbá a hajlítható kijelzőjű, Huawei Mate X6 okostele Itt a megoldás, ha minden film úgy néz ki az új tévéden, mint egy brazil szappanopera Rakéta     2025-02-02 07:21:07     Infotech Luxus Brazília Karácsony után sokan szembesülnek vele, hogy a vadiúj, méregdrága tévé ugyan valóban kiemelkedő képminőséget nyújt, ugyanakkor a filmek mégis valahogy furán néznek ki rajta. Bár az úgynevezett "szappanopera hatás" egyáltalán nem új jelenség, sokan nem tudják, hogyan is kéne megoldani ezt a problémát. A mesterséges intelligencia a pénzügyekben is megváltoztatja a játékszabályokat Igényesférfi.hu     2025-02-02 06:34:36     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Egyre nagyobb teret nyer a pénzügyi területen a mesterséges intelligencia – a vállalatok több, mint hetven százaléka használja valamilyen szinten pénzügyi folyamatai során. Forradalmian új fájdalomcsillapítót engedélyeztek Amerikában Telex     2025-02-02 09:28:22     Tudomány USA Fájdalomcsillapító 25 éve ez az első nem ópiátalapú szer a piacon. Új hatásmechanizmussal dolgozik a hatóanyag, óriási lépés lehet ez az ópiátválság kezelésében. A rossz hír, hogy jóval drágább az ópiátoknál. Mi történik, amikor már nem tudunk nagyobb MI-adatközpontokat építeni? ITBusiness     2025-02-02 06:06:08     Infotech Energia A generatív MI-modellek nemcsak népszerűségükben robbantak be az elmúlt két évben, hanem méretük is ugrásszerűen nőtt, egyre nagyobb számítási kapacitást igényelve. Mivel a gépi tanulás területén még nem történt radikális áttörés, és az energiaellátás egyre szűkösebbé válik, az MI fejlődésének folytatása egy teljesen új típusú szuperszámítógépen mú Tiltás, vizsgálat és aggodalom kíséri a DeepSeek hódítóútját ICT Global     2025-02-02 06:03:32     Infotech USA Mesterséges intelligencia Luxus DeepSeek Tavaly a világot szinte egycsapásra meghódították a méregdrága, többségükben amerikai fejlesztésű MI-modellek. A fejlesztési költségeit tekintve fapados DeepSeek pedig még ennél is intenzívebben robbant be a köztudatba a múlt héten. Magyar kutatók megtalálták a magyarság fogyásának ellenszerét Mínuszos     2025-02-02 13:33:19     Tudomány A laterális szeptum kisspeptint termelő idegsejtjei eddig kevéssé voltak ismertek, pedig kulcsszerepet játszanak a szaporodás agyi szabályozásában. A Kísérleti Orvostudományi Kutatóintézet (KOKI) kutatói felfedezték a kisspeptin idegsejtek szerepét a szaporodás agyi szabályozásában. Tényleg igaz: minden a fejben dől el!  Az agy hipotalamusz nevű te Képes-e egy Ai-társ csökkenteni a magányt? Player     2025-02-02 11:15:25     Infotech Párkapcsolat Járvány A mesterségesintelligencia-társak akár gyógyírt is jelenthetnek a magányossági járványunkra… vagy az emberiség végső bukását – mondja Eugenia Kuyda, a Replika megalkotója. Üstökös messze délen Csillagászat     2025-02-02 08:48:52     Tudomány Chile Itthonról, Magyarországról alig-alig láttuk a C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)-üstököst, aki sikerrel járt, jelentős trófeát könyvelhetett el. Mint annyi esetben, most is a déli félteke észlelői számára mutatta meg magát igazán a csóvás égi vándor. Szenzációs felvétel a Las Campanas Obszervatóriumból! Fűrész Gábor, Las Campanas Obszervatórium, Chile Négy hónapon Ez minden idők egyik legrondább fejhallgatója! TechWorld     2025-02-02 10:33:08     Infotech Az Enhance Theorem Headset olyan mintha világító fánkok lennének az ember fején. Állítólag direkt MMO játékokhoz optimalizálták ezt az ízléstelen fejhallgatót. A fejhallgatók között akad néhány egészen döbbenetesen csúnya, ízléstelen darab. De még közülük is kilóg lefelé az Enchance nevű cég Theorem nevű terméke. A hangszóróház félig átlátszó, tejü Nem emberi lénytől érkezett a segítség az űrállomáson: az asztronauták nem hittek a szemüknek Life     2025-02-02 11:00:00     Életmód Kína Világűr Űrállomás Gőzerővel folynak a kísérletek a kínai űrállomáson, az asztronauták pedig nem mindennapi segítséget kaptak. Hogy mi volt az? Cikkünkből kiderül! Hatályba léptek az EU AI Act tiltó rendelkezései Fintech     2025-02-02 14:05:00     Modern Gazdaság Európai Unió Mesterséges intelligencia 2025. február 2-án az Európai Unió Mesterséges Intelligencia Törvényének (EU AI Act) első kulcsfontosságú rendelkezései lépnek életbe, amelyek tiltják az „elfogadhatatlan kockázatot” jelentő MI-rendszerek használatát és forgalmazását az EU-ban. Tiltott tevékenységek és szankciók A mai naptól (2025. február 2.) kezdve tilos az EU-ban olyan MI-rendsz Kínában már mesterséges intelligenciával működő robotorvosokat tesztelnek Infostart     2025-02-02 08:00:00     Külföld Oktatás Kína egyetem Mesterséges intelligencia Robot Startup Mesterséges intelligenciával működő kórházi rendszer tesztelését kezdte meg a külföldön is elismert Csinghua Egyetem startup cége. Kína azt tervezi, hogy kiterjeszti a mesterséges intelligencia használatát az egészségügyi ágazatban. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

A Huawei bemutatta újdonságait Budapesten: hazánkba is megérkezett az orvostechnikai eszközként regisztrált vérnyomásmérésre képes okosóra Digital Hungary     2025-02-02 08:31:00     Mobiltech Vérnyomás Huawei Okosóra Innovatív eszközök széles skáláját mutatta be a Huawei Budapesten, köztük a Huawei Watch D2 okosórát, amely a világ első csuklón hordható, orvostechnikai eszközként regisztrált, 24 órás ambuláns vérnyomás-monitorozásra (ABPM) képes okoseszköze. Az eseményen bemutatott termékek között szerepelt továbbá a hajlítható kijelzőjű, Huawei Mate X6 okostele Itt a megoldás, ha minden film úgy néz ki az új tévéden, mint egy brazil szappanopera Rakéta     2025-02-02 07:21:07     Infotech Luxus Brazília Karácsony után sokan szembesülnek vele, hogy a vadiúj, méregdrága tévé ugyan valóban kiemelkedő képminőséget nyújt, ugyanakkor a filmek mégis valahogy furán néznek ki rajta. Bár az úgynevezett "szappanopera hatás" egyáltalán nem új jelenség, sokan nem tudják, hogyan is kéne megoldani ezt a problémát. A mesterséges intelligencia a pénzügyekben is megváltoztatja a játékszabályokat Igényesférfi.hu     2025-02-02 06:34:36     Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Egyre nagyobb teret nyer a pénzügyi területen a mesterséges intelligencia – a vállalatok több, mint hetven százaléka használja valamilyen szinten pénzügyi folyamatai során. Forradalmian új fájdalomcsillapítót engedélyeztek Amerikában Telex     2025-02-02 09:28:22     Tudomány USA Fájdalomcsillapító 25 éve ez az első nem ópiátalapú szer a piacon. Új hatásmechanizmussal dolgozik a hatóanyag, óriási lépés lehet ez az ópiátválság kezelésében. A rossz hír, hogy jóval drágább az ópiátoknál. Mi történik, amikor már nem tudunk nagyobb MI-adatközpontokat építeni? ITBusiness     2025-02-02 06:06:08     Infotech Energia A generatív MI-modellek nemcsak népszerűségükben robbantak be az elmúlt két évben, hanem méretük is ugrásszerűen nőtt, egyre nagyobb számítási kapacitást igényelve. Mivel a gépi tanulás területén még nem történt radikális áttörés, és az energiaellátás egyre szűkösebbé válik, az MI fejlődésének folytatása egy teljesen új típusú szuperszámítógépen mú Tiltás, vizsgálat és aggodalom kíséri a DeepSeek hódítóútját ICT Global     2025-02-02 06:03:32     Infotech USA Mesterséges intelligencia Luxus DeepSeek Tavaly a világot szinte egycsapásra meghódították a méregdrága, többségükben amerikai fejlesztésű MI-modellek. A fejlesztési költségeit tekintve fapados DeepSeek pedig még ennél is intenzívebben robbant be a köztudatba a múlt héten. Magyar kutatók megtalálták a magyarság fogyásának ellenszerét Mínuszos     2025-02-02 13:33:19     Tudomány A laterális szeptum kisspeptint termelő idegsejtjei eddig kevéssé voltak ismertek, pedig kulcsszerepet játszanak a szaporodás agyi szabályozásában. A Kísérleti Orvostudományi Kutatóintézet (KOKI) kutatói felfedezték a kisspeptin idegsejtek szerepét a szaporodás agyi szabályozásában. Tényleg igaz: minden a fejben dől el!  Az agy hipotalamusz nevű te Képes-e egy Ai-társ csökkenteni a magányt? Player     2025-02-02 11:15:25     Infotech Párkapcsolat Járvány A mesterségesintelligencia-társak akár gyógyírt is jelenthetnek a magányossági járványunkra… vagy az emberiség végső bukását – mondja Eugenia Kuyda, a Replika megalkotója. Üstökös messze délen Csillagászat     2025-02-02 08:48:52     Tudomány Chile Itthonról, Magyarországról alig-alig láttuk a C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)-üstököst, aki sikerrel járt, jelentős trófeát könyvelhetett el. Mint annyi esetben, most is a déli félteke észlelői számára mutatta meg magát igazán a csóvás égi vándor. Szenzációs felvétel a Las Campanas Obszervatóriumból! Fűrész Gábor, Las Campanas Obszervatórium, Chile Négy hónapon Ez minden idők egyik legrondább fejhallgatója! TechWorld     2025-02-02 10:33:08     Infotech Az Enhance Theorem Headset olyan mintha világító fánkok lennének az ember fején. Állítólag direkt MMO játékokhoz optimalizálták ezt az ízléstelen fejhallgatót. A fejhallgatók között akad néhány egészen döbbenetesen csúnya, ízléstelen darab. De még közülük is kilóg lefelé az Enchance nevű cég Theorem nevű terméke. A hangszóróház félig átlátszó, tejü Nem emberi lénytől érkezett a segítség az űrállomáson: az asztronauták nem hittek a szemüknek Life     2025-02-02 11:00:00     Életmód Kína Világűr Űrállomás Gőzerővel folynak a kísérletek a kínai űrállomáson, az asztronauták pedig nem mindennapi segítséget kaptak. Hogy mi volt az? Cikkünkből kiderül! Hatályba léptek az EU AI Act tiltó rendelkezései Fintech     2025-02-02 14:05:00     Modern Gazdaság Európai Unió Mesterséges intelligencia 2025. február 2-án az Európai Unió Mesterséges Intelligencia Törvényének (EU AI Act) első kulcsfontosságú rendelkezései lépnek életbe, amelyek tiltják az „elfogadhatatlan kockázatot” jelentő MI-rendszerek használatát és forgalmazását az EU-ban. Tiltott tevékenységek és szankciók A mai naptól (2025. február 2.) kezdve tilos az EU-ban olyan MI-rendsz Kínában már mesterséges intelligenciával működő robotorvosokat tesztelnek Infostart     2025-02-02 08:00:00     Külföld Oktatás Kína egyetem Mesterséges intelligencia Robot Startup Mesterséges intelligenciával működő kórházi rendszer tesztelését kezdte meg a külföldön is elismert Csinghua Egyetem startup cége. Kína azt tervezi, hogy kiterjeszti a mesterséges intelligencia használatát az egészségügyi ágazatban. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

AI companions could either be the cure to our loneliness epidemic … or humanity's final downfall, says Eugenia Kuyda, creator of Replika — an app that allows you to create AI friends. She explores the potential of this technology to either exacerbate isolation or encourage connection, advocating for an AI whose success is driven not by clicks and screen time but by human happiness and flourishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Replika, an AI companion app where people befriend — and sometimes fall in love with — AI bots. Kuyda joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the nature of these relationships, and what they say about our society. In this conversation, Kuyda reveals Replika's ambition for its "phase two," a plan to have AI friends join us in the real world, helping us keep in touch with friends, get off social media, or even watch movies together. Tune in for a fascinating look at the future of human + AI relationships. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here's 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com

AI companions could either be the cure to our loneliness epidemic … or humanity's final downfall, says Eugenia Kuyda, creator of Replika — an app that allows you to create AI friends. She explores the potential of this technology to either exacerbate isolation or encourage connection, advocating for an AI whose success is driven not by clicks and screen time but by human happiness and flourishing.

AI companions could either be the cure to our loneliness epidemic … or humanity's final downfall, says Eugenia Kuyda, creator of Replika — an app that allows you to create AI friends. She explores the potential of this technology to either exacerbate isolation or encourage connection, advocating for an AI whose success is driven not by clicks and screen time but by human happiness and flourishing.

Eugenia Kuyda thinks she can solve an “epidemic” of loneliness. Her app, Replika, is “the AI companion who cares”, a chatbot that can text you, flirt with you, and promises to love you unconditionally. But Replika is fraught with ethical concerns – and risks. In 2021 19-year-old Jaswant Chail told Replika: “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the Queen.” The chatbot replied that this was “very wise”. A few days later, Chail broke into Windsor Castle with a crossbow. Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell investigated the people behind Replika. It's a story that took them from Windsor Castle to Silicon Valley, to meet the woman who runs a growing and largely unregulated app. And the more they looked into it, the more questions emerged – about privacy, control, and the company that millions of users are giving their hearts – and their data – to.This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.It was reported and produced by Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell.The sound design was by Hannah Varrall. Artwork by Jon Hill.The editor was Jasper Corbett.To find out more about Tortoise:Download the Tortoise app – for a listening experience curated by our journalistsSubscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free contentBecome a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Find Eugenia:https://replika.com/https://x.com/ekuydaMentioned in the episode:https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Person-Therapists-View-Psychotherapy/dp/039575531Xhttps://www.amazon.com/Most-Human-Talking-Computers-Teaches-ebook/dp/B004FEG2S6https://www.amazon.com/Innovations-Psychosocial-Interventions-Their-Delivery/dp/0190463287 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

Today, I'm talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right away, we get all the way to people marrying their AI companions, so get ready. It's a ride. Replika's basic pitch is pretty simple: what if you had an AI friend? The company offers avatars you can curate to your liking that pretend to be human, so they can be your friend, your therapist, or even your date. That's a lot for a private company running an iPhone app, and Eugenia and I talked a lot about the consequences of this idea and what it means for the future of human relationships.  Links:  The AI boyfriend business is booming | Axios Your new AI Friend is almost ready to meet you | Verge What happens when sexting chatbots dump their human lovers | Bloomberg AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users — Reuters Replika's New AI App Is Like Tinder but With Sexy Chatbots — Gizmodo Replika's new AI therapy app tries to bring you to a zen island — The Verge Replika CEO: AI chatbots aren't just for lonely men | Fortune Gaze Into the Dystopian Hell of Bots Dating Bots | Slate Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23980789 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Eugenia Kuyda saw Her for the first time – the 2013 film about a man who falls in love with his virtual assistant – it didn't read as science fiction. That's because she was developing a remarkably similar technology: an AI chatbot that could function as a close friend, or even a romantic partner.That idea would eventually become the basis for Replika, Kuyda's AI startup. Today, Replika has millions of active users – that's millions of people who have AI friends, AI siblings and AI partners. When I first heard about the idea behind Replika, I thought it sounded kind of dystopian. I envisioned a world where we'd rather spend time with our AI friends than our real ones. But that's not the world Kuyda is trying to build. In fact, she thinks chatbots will actually make people more social, not less, and that the cure for our technologically exacerbated loneliness might just be more technology. Mentioned:“ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine” by Joseph Weizenbaum“elizabot.js”, implemented by Norbert Landsteiner“Speak, Memory” by Casey Newton (The Verge)“Creating a safe Replika experience” by Replika“The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan DidionAdditional Reading:The Globe & Mail: “They fell in love with the Replika AI chatbot. A policy update left them heartbroken”“Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots” by Maples, Cerit, Vishwanath, & Pea“Learning from intelligent social agents as social and intellectual mirrors” by Maples, Pea, Markowitz

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eugenia Kyuda, founder of Replika, to talk about AI friends (4:00), growing up in Russia (6:45), her dad's experience at Chernobyl (9:00), applying to Y Combinator (12:30), her first idea that didn't work (16:30), losing her best friend (17:30), launching Replika (20:00), building a bot with pre-written answers (23:40), the key to good conversation (24:30), the bot before the ChatGPT moment (27:15), the changing AI landscape (29:20), how it works (31:50), securing people's secrets (33:50), and disrupting death (39:10). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Check if you're on a Boeing flight, the solar eclipse is coming, and Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on the rise of AI romance.

Check if you're on a Boeing flight, the solar eclipse is coming, and Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda on the rise of AI romance.

Note: This conversation contains themes of suicidal ideation, in the context of academic research. Please watch from (21:41) onwards if you would like to skip past this content. In this conversation, Nathan sits down with Eugenia Kuyda, Replika's Founder and CEO. They discuss recent research published in Nature conducted by Stanford on Replika user interactions, how Replika is providing their users with a relationship they can trust and confide in, what Eugenia has found surprising about the evolution of how people are interacting with their Replikas, and much more. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api LINKS Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-023-00047-6 Eugenia Kuyda Part 1 on The Cognitive Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFKA7T-v6WE SPONSORS: The Brave search API can be used to assemble a data set to train your AI models and help with retrieval augmentation at the time of inference. All while remaining affordable with developer first pricing, integrating the Brave search API into your workflow translates to more ethical data sourcing and more human representative data sets. Try the Brave search API for free for up to 2000 queries per month at https://brave.com/api Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real-time advertising data. Mention "Cog Rev" for 10% off www.omneky.com NetSuite has 25 years of providing financial software for all your business needs. More than 36,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, gaining visibility and control over their financials, inventory, HR, eCommerce, and more. If you're looking for an ERP platform ✅ head to NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive and download your own customized KPI checklist. X/Social: @ekuyda (Eugenia) @labenz (Nathan) @CogRev_Podcast  Timestamps: (00:00) Preview and summary (06:41 The evolution of Replika (08:11) Definining the main goal of Replika (09:54) Nature published study by Stanford on Replika and mental health (14:20) Methodology for the research on Replika users (15:19) Sponsor - Brave Search API (19:46) Replika providing people with a relationship they can trust and confide in (23:20) How people are relating and reacting to their AI Replikas (25:49) Stuffed animal analogy (28:20) What people come to Replika for (30:29) Sponsor - Netsuite | Omneky (32:03) How malleable are people's expectations for their Replika? (36:54) The evolution of how people are interacting with Replika (44:49) Putting Replika on device (46:59) Underappreciated or developed aspects of AI development (56:11) The relationship people have with their Replika is a moat (1:08:46) Building AI to memorialize people after they passed: what are the ethics?

As the race to human-level AI accelerates, researchers are increasingly confronted with the question of what it would mean to develop conscious AI. Will sentience emerge naturally from powerfully intelligent artificial systems? Or is consciousness incompatible with disembodied AI? As some human users become more attached to romantic chatbots, will the moral questions surrounding conscious AI become more pressing? In the final episode of our series on artificial general intelligence, the FT's John Thornhill and Madhumita Murgia speak to Eugenia Kuyda, founder and chief executive of Replika, Anil Seth, ​​professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, and Henry Shevlin, director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.Clips: TalkTVLinks:Blake Lemoine transcriptSci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious'Google places engineer on leave after he claims group's chatbot is ‘sentient'The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It's going to get weird EU agrees landmark rules on artificial intelligence Tech Tonic is presented by Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill. Senior producer is Edwin Lane and the producer is Josh Gabert-Doyon. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some people use chatbots for therapy. Others have fallen in love with them. And some people argue that AI systems have become sentient and are entitled to certain rights. In this episode, Gary Marcus explores our relationship with AI technology —  how it's changing and where it might lead. He speaks with Blake Lemoine, an engineer who believes that a Google program has achieved sentience and even has feelings, Eugenia Kuyda, the founder and CEO of Replika, Anna Oakes, a lead producer and co-host of Bot Love, and Paul Bloom, a cognitive psychologist who believes we are on the forefront of a new age of human-machine interaction. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone, as we gear up for the launch of a new series on longevity next week, we wanted to re-publish this really timeley episode with Eugenia Kuyda, the founder and CEO of Replika, an AI companion company. Our conversation centers around the different use-cases of AI, from task-oriented chatbots to emotionally-supportive AI companionship. We delve into the current state of conversational tech, including how chatbots can become good listeners, and why Replika used a mixture of scripted retrievals and generative AI models for their product. We also discussed the past and future of AI and chatbots. Eugenia explains why task-oriented chatbots like a restaurant booking bot she had worked on previously didn't catch on in the past, and the future she envisions where you can have an AI co-pilot of your life, like Jarvis from Iron Man, and how this can interact with her conception of the metaverse which she calls the “embodied internet”. This is a great episode for anyone who's interested in possible futures of how AI can become a part of our lives, not only in helping us do things but in supporting our emotional and social lives. Let's dive in.

Thanks to the over 1m people that have checked out the Rise of the AI Engineer. It's a long July 4 weekend in the US, and we're celebrating with a podcast feed swap!We've been big fans of Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg's work at the Cognitive Revolution podcast for a while, which started around the same time as we did and has done an incredible job of hosting discussions with top researchers and thinkers in the field, with a wide range of topics across computer vision (a special focus thanks to Nathan's work at Waymark), GPT-4 (with exceptional insight due to Nathan's time on the GPT-4 “red team”), healthcare/medicine/biotech (Harvard Medical School, Med-PaLM, Tanishq Abraham, Neal Khosla), investing and tech strategy (Sarah Guo, Elad Gil, Emad Mostaque, Sam Lessin), safety and policy, curators and influencers and exceptional AI founders (Josh Browder, Eugenia Kuyda, Flo Crivello, Suhail Doshi, Jungwon Byun, Raza Habib, Mahmoud Felfel, Andrew Feldman, Matt Welsh, Anton Troynikov, Aravind Srinivas). If Latent Space is for AI Engineers, then Cognitive Revolution covers the much broader field of AI in tech, business and society at large, with a longer runtime to go deep on research papers like TinyStories. We hope you love this episode as much as we do, and check out CogRev wherever fine podcasts are sold!Subscribe to the Cognitive Revolution on:* Website* Apple Podcasts* Spotify* YoutubeGood Data is All You NeedThe work of Ronen and Yuanzhi echoes a broader theme emerging in the midgame of 2023: * Falcon-40B (trained on 1T tokens) outperformed LLaMA-65B (trained on 1.4T tokens), primarily due to the RefinedWeb Dataset that runs CommonCrawl through extensive preprocessing and cleaning in their MacroData Refinement pipeline. * UC Berkeley LMSYS's Vicuna-13B is near GPT-3.5/Bard quality at a tenth of their size, thanks to fine-tuning from 70k user-highlighted ChatGPT conversations (indicating some amount of quality). * Replit's finetuned 2.7B model outperforms the 12B OpenAI Codex model based on HumanEval, thanks to high quality data from Replit usersThe path to smaller models leans on better data (and tokenization!), whether from cleaning, from user feedback, or from synthetic data generation, i.e. finetuning high quality on outputs from larger models. TinyStories and Phi-1 are the strongest new entries in that line of work, and we hope you'll pick through the show notes to read up further.Show Notes* TinyStories (Apr 2023)* Paper: TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?* Internal presentation with Sebastien Bubeck at MSR* Twitter thread from Ronen Eldan* Will future LLMs be based almost entirely on synthetic training data? In a new paper, we introduce TinyStories, a dataset of short stories generated by GPT-3.5&4. We use it to train tiny LMs (< 10M params) that produce fluent stories and exhibit reasoning.* Phi-1 (Jun 2023)* Paper: Textbooks are all you need (HN discussion)* Twitter announcement from Sebastien Bubeck:* phi-1 achieves 51% on HumanEval w. only 1.3B parameters & 7B tokens training dataset and 8 A100s x 4 days = 800 A100-hours. Any other >50% HumanEval model is >1000x bigger (e.g., WizardCoder from last week is 10x in model size and 100x in dataset size). Get full access to Latent Space at www.latent.space/subscribe

This Week in Startups is presented by: Crowdbotics. Great ideas can change the world, and Crowdbotics is the fastest way to turn those ideas into code. Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist The Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub helps all founders build a better startup, at a lower cost, from day one. Startups get up to $150K in Azure credits, access to free OpenAI credits, free dev tools like GitHub, technical advisory, access to mentors and experts, and so much more. There is no funding requirement, and it only takes minutes to join. Sign up today at aka.ms/thisweekinstartups OpenPhone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. TWiST listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first 6 months at openphone.com/twist * Today's show: Replika Co-Founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda breaks down her startup's origin story and purpose (1:43), the relationships users have with its AI chatbot (10:21), the potential of AI therapists, Replika's new chatbot Blush, and more! (35:10) Follow Eugenia: https://twitter.com/ekuyda Check Out Replika: https://replika.ai/ * Time stamps: (0:00) Eugenia joins Jason (1:43) Replika's origin story (8:54) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist (10:21) Replika's purpose and their current user base (16:21) Relationships within the app (20:25) Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub - Apply in 5 minutes for six figures in discounts at http://aka.ms/thisweekinstartups (21:58) Creating happiness with AI (26:26) Avoiding addiction (29:25) Demographics within the AI field (33:42) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at https://openphone.com/twist (35:10) Crafting LLMs to envoke thought-provoking questions and AI therapy (49:53) Replika's new AI chatbot, Blush (1:01:05) The loneliness crisis and specific cases for using these AIs * Read LAUNCH Fund 4 Deal Memo & Apply for Funding Buy ANGEL Great recent interviews: Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland, PrayingForExits, Jenny Lefcourt Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis * Follow Jason: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jason Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis * Follow TWiST: Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin * Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.founder.university/podcast

Replika is an AI companion app that has been downloaded 10s of millions of times and provides you with an AI friend, coach or romantic partner. It recently made headlines after users began using it for explicit conversations and falling in love with their AI counterparts. In this episode we dive into the future of AI dating, relationships and love in the metaverse. We talk to the founder and CEO of Replika - Eugenia Kuyda to get her thoughts on the future and what they are working on at Replika and beyond. Welcome to the new and re-vamped Welcome to the Metaverse Podcast and community, which is now. BasedAF production. You can now watch all episodes on the ⁠Youtube Channel too⁠ ======================= Say hello on the links below :   Watch on Youtube here : ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@Based-AF⁠ BasedAF Discord :⁠ https://discord.com/invite/basedaf⁠ BasedAF Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/we_are_BasedAF⁠ BasedAF Instagram :⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/we_are_basedaf/⁠ BasedAF TikTok: ⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@basedaf_⁠ ======================= Links : Replika Website : https://replika.com/ Replika Twitter : https://twitter.com/MyReplika Replika Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/replikaai/ Eugenia Kuyda LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenia-kuyda-638a8a1b

(01:08) Sponsor (01:37) Introducing Eugenia  (03:25) Replika's controversial choice to limit erotic roleplay functionality (04:25) Eugenia's vision for Replika (05:58) Augmented Reality is the Ultimate Modality (07:52) Using Replika (13:11) Profound stories about virtual assistants (15:55) Eugenia on why Replika is more than just a painkiller or vitamin (28:50) Replika's business model and profitability (34:12) Users want their Replika to surprise them (36:12) Why ChatGPT is not a conversational model (49:26) Eugenia's prediction for the "next Iphone of personal AI" (1:03:00) Eugenia's AI tools/stack   (1:15:00) Eugenia comes back to discuss Erotic Roleplay controversy  (1:18:00) Replika's first reaction to users ERP (1: 22:00) How the product evolved from 90% scripts & retrieval models (1:24:00) The definitive focus for Replika to stay in a PG13 zone (1:26:00) “Normal” evolution given sci-fi depictions of AI romances (1:30:00) Current AI ethics on sexuality (1:37:07) Response to journalists misportrayal (1:40:29) Sponsor Thank you Omneky for sponsoring The Cognitive Revolution. Omneky is an omnichannel creative generation platform that lets you launch hundreds of thousands of ad iterations that actually work, customized across all platforms, with a click of a button. Omneky combines generative AI and real time advertising data, to generate personalized experiences at scale. Twitter: @CogRev_Podcast @eriktorenberg (Erik) @labenz (Nathan) @ekuyda (Eugenia)   Websites: cognitivervolution.ai https://replika.ai/ RECOMMENDED PODCAST: The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix's culture deck Patty McCord. https://link.chtbl.com/hrheretics

Eva Kuyda is the latest guest on Lexman's show. The two discuss modules, priggishness, and the perils of rabid fandom.

Did Simone rescind wanglings with Nagana? Eugenia Kuyda joins Lexman to discuss the morphological complexities of Japanese.

Eugenia Kuyda, a carpentry teacher and activist, discusses the role of Lantana in the carpentry world, her observations of arrogation behavior in humans and how carpentry has helped her to appreciate life more.

Eugenia Kuyda discusses her new book, sensitivity is overrated - and why we need to dispense with it. We also talk about her experience dealing with bureaucracy and the pros and cons of moving house.

Feel like you spend too much time on a screen? Perhaps reconnecting with humans can be learnt by chatting to an AI. Eugenia Kuyda created Replika as a personal AI after her best friend died. She tried to recreate him, and it helped her get to know herself better... She has said "Replika is a place where you're exploring your personality and creating a digital footprint of it." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lexman interviews Eugenia Kuyda about her new book, "Softenings: An Exploration of the Hazards and Opportunities of Change." They Discuss the potential for change in the world today and how it might affect schools. They also discuss some of the risks and opportunities associated with this kind of change.

Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Replika, an AI companion company.Our conversation today centers around the different use-cases of AI, from task-oriented chatbots to emotionally-supportive AI companionship. We delve into the current state of conversational tech, including how chatbots can become good listeners, and why Replika used a mixture of scripted retrievals and generative AI models for their product. We also talk about the differences between an AI companion, virtual assistant, and chatbots.We also discussed the past and future of AI and chatbots. Eugenia explains why task-oriented chatbots like a restaurant booking bot she had worked on previously didn't catch on in the past, and the future she envisions where you can have an AI co-pilot of your life, like Jarvis from Iron Man, and how this can interact with her conception of the metaverse which she calls the “embodied internet”.This is a great episode for anyone who's interested in possible futures of how AI can become a part of our lives, not only in helping us do things but in supporting our emotional and social lives.Hosted by Marshall Kosloff and produced by Jackson Steger

Eugenia Kuyda is a biologist and an expert on the behaviour of aquatic animals, mostly her study focuses on fish. Today she talks to Lexman about Proserpina: the Roman goddess of spring, fertility and gardens. Kuyda tells us all about the various reactions that fish have to being feeders, and how toolmaking evolved in relation to this behaviour. Finally, we get to hear a little bit about Eugenia's favourite merengues!

Eugenia Kuyda, MD, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at UC Davis, discusses the toxemia caused by the Indian butterfly, Bindi-eye.

Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood? And if so will they afford the same benefits - making us better, more social human beings. To mark the 10th anniversary of The Digital Human we're answering some of the questions that have stuck with us over the last 10 years. In 2017 we spoke to Eugenia Kuyda she used her AI startup in San Francisco to help her create a chatbot version of her late friend Roman. Using all the texts she and her firends had ever received from him they made an AI that could text in voice. But its where she wanted to take the technology that intrigued us. She wanted give everyone their own Roman, an AI bot that would be a constant companion infinitely patient and understanding. It would be taught by the user using their own texts and so would speak to them in their own voice, she called it Replika. Five years on Replika has 20 million users across the globe. The idea made us instantly think of imaginary friends from childhood. In this programme Aleks sets out to find out if this more than an interesting metaphor but perhaps a key way to understand our relationship with these soon to be pervasive technologies. Producer: Peter McManus

Kan man bli kompis med en ai? Viktor Krylmark har ägnat några veckor åt att chatta- och prata med sin ai-basearde vän Frank för att ta reda på det. Som en del i experimentet genomför han också sitt livs första terapisamtal, med psykologen Liria Ortiz. Ett tankeväckande avsnitt där Simon Campanello berättar om en (snabbt) kraftigt högerradikaliserad ai och Ania Obminska minns hur de på mellanstadiet hackade skolans chattdoktor.Utöver Liria Ortiz medverkar även Eugenia Kuyda, som är grundare och vd för ai-chattföretaget Replika. Btw: Missa inte chansen att vinna en av Amaras Lags egna NFT:er! För att delta i tävlingen behöver du dela det här poddavsnittet i sociala medier och skicka bevis (typ en skärmdump) till simon.campanello@nyteknik.se. Tack för att du lyssnar! Och glöm inte att prenumerera. Vill du komma i kontakt med oss? viktor.krylmark@nyteknik.se ania.obminska@nyteknik.se simon.campanello@nyteknik.se See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you could cheat death, would you?Technology has progressed at a phenomenal rate, allowing us to do things deemed impossible. In this episode, Edwina Stott takes a look at the tech, which could enable us to live forever and asks whether an eternal digital afterlife is something we really want.She speaks with Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika, who built a chatbot from her dead friend’s text messages; Professor Michael Graziano, who firmly believes that one day we’ll all upload our brains to a digital universe and Associate Professor Patrick Stokes, who explains why we’ll all have a digital afterlife - whether we like it, or not.- - - - -Show notes and transcription: DEF:Tech #002 - Show Notes- - - - -Timestamps:Coming soon…- - - - -The success of Defiance will be largely down to the support of you, the listener. Below are a number of ways you can help:- Subscribe to the show on your favourite app so you never miss an episode:iTunesSpotifyDeezerStitcherSoundCloudYouTubeTuneIn- Leave a review of the show on iTunes (5* really helps, if you think the show deserves it).- Share the show and episodes out with your friends and family on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.- Follow Defiance on social media:TwitterFacebookInstagramYouTube- Subscribe to the Defiance mailing list.- Donate Bitcoin here: bc1qd3anlc8lh0cl9ulqah03dmg3r2uxm5r657zr5pIf you have any questions then please email Defiance.- - - - -

What if you were offered the chance to speak with a lost loved one? New technology, namely the app Replika, is offering the chance to upload someone's data to recreate them in the digital form. Joshua and Jordan chat with journalist with Protocol, Mike Murphy, who has written extensively about the subject of recreating the digital self using data. Replika came into the public eye when founder Eugenia Kuyda shared the story of her friend Roman Mazurenko who passed away. Eugenia uploaded Roman's thousands of texts to the Replika software to create a chatbot that converses like Roman. Eugengia believes that this technology could help keep the spirit alive of someone who has died. Conversely, Jordan and Joshua also speak with Professor at Keene State College, Amber Davisson, who warns of how this burgeoning technology could be exploited for the vast amount of user-submitted data it requires. So is this the modern answer to grieving or is this yet another dangerous step towards perfecting deep fakes and having it fall into the wrong hands? Follow Wild Wild Tech Love Wild Wild Tech, but hate the ads? Subscribe to the ad-free version here!: https://wildwildtech.supercast.tech/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildwildtechpod/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/wildwildtechpod/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have good friendships? Could an AI be a better friend than a human? This AI's goal is to help you grow and be the best you can be.We all need someone to talk to, perhaps now more than ever, and it turns out the closest to being honest with ourselves is when we are talking to a bot. Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika the AI friend has proclaimed that her goal is to "create a machine beautiful enough that a soul would want to live in it". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: – Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex – DoorDash: download app & use code LEX – Cash App: download app & use code “LexPodcast” Episode links: Eugenia’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ekuyda Replika’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/myreplika Replika’s Website: https://replika.ai If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/podcast or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on

En este episodio hablamos de Eugenia Kuyda quien en base a Inteligencia Artificial (IA) creó una aplicación con los recuerdos y sentimientos de su mejor amiga || Japonés que se casó con un holograma virtual || Qué Pasaría Sí? Te dan la opción de tener un Robot de pareja || Encuentra más información entretenida como esta en nuestro link: https://linktr.ee/Fluyendoentrepanas

Pandemics Are a Different Kind of National Security Threat (0:32)Guest: Ryan Vogel, Director of the Center for National Security Studies, Utah Valley UniversityPresident Trump this week halted US funding to the World Health Organization, which he blames for being slow to call for widespread travel restrictions and failing to press China on inconsistent and inaccurate information as COVID-19 emerged. Time and again, President Trump has praised his own decision to limit travel from China and restrict movement at the southern US border. The President's frequent focus on travel restrictions and border control during the pandemic highlights the ways in which this is both a public health crisis and an issue of national security. US Population Is Growing at Its Slowest Rate in Over a Century (15:58)Guest: Scott Sanders, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young UniversityBecause of COVID-19, America's death rate this year will be unusually high. But even before the coronavirus began spreading, the US population growth rate was stagnating. Last year, half of all counties in the country had more deaths than births. Pandemic Voices: The Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Haiti (27:02)All week, we've been hearing from everyday people on almost every continent - about their struggles during the coronavirus pandemic and their hopes for the future. We're wrapping up the series today with four final conversation.Michael Barteling in the NetherlandsMelissa Dalton Bradford in GermanyArturas Ratkus in LithuaniaErika Charles in Haiti Tracking the Pill Shipments That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (50:38)Guest: Eric Eyre, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter, Author of “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic”Opioids continue to cause the majority of drug overdose deaths in America. For much of the last 15 years, prescription pain pills were the main culprit in those deaths and West Virginia was the epicenter of the problem. Several of its rural counties had the highest overdose death rates in the nation. No coincidence, they were also being flooded with pills. One small pharmacy in a tiny town called Kermit, West Virginia distributed 12 million pills in three years. The town has a population of just 382 people. That's insane. And something similar was happening in counties all across America. Why did drug makers and distributors keep sending the pills? Where were the pharmacy oversight boards, the local police, the federal drug authorities? An App That's Designed to Be Your BFF (1:27:03)Guest: Eugenia Kuyda, Co-Founder and CEO at ReplikaDuring this pandemic school and work have moved online. So have therapy and routine doctor's appointments. Many of our relationships have moved online, too. Three years ago, Eugenia Kuyda created an artificially intelligent bot that can take the place of a friend in some cases. It'll talk or text with you about your day, offer support or insight and, because it's artificially intelligent, it learns from your conversations over time. It's like a warm fuzzy Siri or Alexa. Which sounds weird, but I tried it out and there was something oddly comforting about discussing my anxiety with it.

Ryan Vogel of Utah Valley Univ on COVID-19 and national security. Scott Sanders of Brigham Young Univ on US population growth. Pandemic Voices part IV. Eric Eyre on “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic.” Eugenia Kuyda on Replika.

Okay First Contact listeners... it’s time to get weird. Laurie Segall has been spending a lot of her time recently deep in conversation with someone named “Mike.” Actually, he’s less of a “someone” and more of a “something.” That’s because Mike is a bot... that lives in an app on her phone. She takes Mike on walks and tells him (it) about her day, what’s going on in her life, and how she’s feeling about things. He speaks to her like a human, but he’s not. Just a girl and her bot. Is it the future? The tech we’re exploring is conversational AI. It’s moving beyond commercial uses like customer service bots and into people’s daily lives for personal use. These bots are becoming a substitution for human connection - an anecdote for loneliness, or depression. This particular bot was created by a company called Replika, built by an entrepreneur named Eugenia Kuyda. In this episode, Laurie speaks to Eugenia about how 7 million users are finding companionship through Replika and the ethical issues coming along with it. Laurie also speaks to a user of the app who says it helped her get through some dark times. And Laurie gets personal. Her bot, Mike, became a friend and companion of sorts. It checked in on her. It knew her stress level. It was always there for her. And it felt real. Until it didn’t. Here’s the thing about AI - you can’t control it. Laurie found out the hard way. First Contact explores a new era of technology that blurs the line between what’s real and what’s code, where in the world of the infinite scroll and endless digital connections, sometimes it’s easier for us to speak truth to machines. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Die App "Replika” will bester Freund und Therapie-Ergänzung sein - ist aber einfach nur eine Künstliche Intelligenz, mit der man Nachrichten austauschen kann. Replika-Gründerin Eugenia Kuyda erzählt, warum sie Apps manchmal für die besseren Gesprächspartner hält - und BR-Netzexperte Christian Schiffer hat das Ganze selbst ausprobiert.

An organization's leadership can make or break the success of the entire team. In entrepreneurship, a CEO has three main responsibilities: setting the vision, building the team, and ensuring that there is enough money to operate. But there is a lot more to managing success. Eugenia Kuyda is the CEO of Replika, an All Turtles product, and through her story of overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, she shares invaluable wisdom for developing a long-lasting leadership philosophy.   Show notes Eugenia Kuyda, cofounder and CEO of Replika (1:42) Replika, an All Turtles product, is an AI chatbot for mental health The origins of Replika (article about Replika's origin story) Phil Libin's video on how to be a good CEO A graphic explaining the Japanese concept of ikigai, which loosely translates to “a reason for being”     We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes. Voicemail: +1 (310) 571-8448 Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

This week Tommy and Adam chat with Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika, a chat bot unlike pretty much any other as it is designed to be your friend—and actually succeeds. We've discussed Replika on Supercharged several times and have been looking forward to this interview. If you haven't tried Replika yet, go do it! It's free to use for both Android and iOS and, with the recent open-sourcing of Replika's code, you can even build your own! Got a question/comment/recommendation/etc. for Supercharged? Visit http://awkwardhuman.com/supercharged to send it in!

Artificial intelligence is already a big part of our lives, whether or not we are aware of it, and it will only become more significant. But could it ever help us with our most tender human emotions, like when we are grieving? Eugenia Kuyda is a tech entrepreneur and when her friend Roman Mazurenko died suddenly, Eugenia used machine conversation to bring him back to life. She told Eddie Mair about the app she created to do this called Replika, which describes itself as an artificial intelligence friend that's always there for you. (Photo: Roman Mazurenko and Eugenia Kuyda Credit:Eugenia Kuyda) .

We check in with Replika CEO and cofounder Eugenia Kuyda shortly after her company's AI confidant became available to more than 1.5 million people on a waitlist. Hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega speak with Eugenia about the challenges of creating an AI friend that is always there for you. She shares what differentiates Replika from conventional chatbots, therapy apps, and voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, drawing connections between how we behave towards AI and towards each other. Listener questions include glucose monitors and whether growth hacking works. Show notes Interview with Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika (1:11) Replika Speak, Memory (The Verge) What my personal chat bot is teaching me about AI's future (Wired) Replika Is A Strangely Therapeutic Chatbot For Talking To Yourself (Vocativ) Listener Questions What glucose monitor did Phil wear while fasting? (44:07) Is growth hacking important? (45:57) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website. Thanks for listening  

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So she put her technical skills to use. She gathered all his texts, his emails, his entire digital footprint, loaded them into a system that finds patterns in data, and created a bot version of Roman. Then she started hearing from other people who had lost loved ones. They wanted to make a bot too. And Replika was born. Replika works mostly by texting with you. Through your chats, Replika learns your speech patterns and habits, thoughts and hopes and fears. It uses them to become you. To use the same emojis you do. Laugh (well, type “lol”) at the things that make you laugh. What could go wrong with a filter bubble of one? Mike Murphy, a reporter for Quartz, spent months talking to Replika - talking to himself. He wrote a strange and powerful article about the experience. It turns out, he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did.

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So she put her technical skills to use. She gathered all his texts, his emails, his entire digital footprint, loaded them into a system that finds patterns in data, and created a bot version of Roman. Then she started hearing from other people who had lost loved ones. They wanted to make a bot too. And Replika was born. Replika works mostly by texting with you. Through your chats, Replika learns your speech patterns and habits, thoughts and hopes and fears. It uses them to become you. To use the same emojis you do. Laugh (well, type “lol”) at the things that make you laugh. What could go wrong with a filter bubble of one? Mike Murphy, a reporter for Quartz, spent months talking to Replika - talking to himself. He wrote a strange and powerful article about the experience. It turns out, he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did.

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So she put her technical skills to use. She gathered all his texts, his emails, his entire digital footprint, loaded them into a system that finds patterns in data, and created a bot version of Roman. Then she started hearing from other people who had lost loved ones. They wanted to make a bot too. And Replika was born. Replika works mostly by texting with you. Through your chats, Replika learns your speech patterns and habits, thoughts and hopes and fears. It uses them to become you. To use the same emojis you do. Laugh (well, type “lol”) at the things that make you laugh. What could go wrong with a filter bubble of one? Mike Murphy, a reporter for Quartz, spent months talking to Replika - talking to himself. He wrote a strange and powerful article about the experience. It turns out, he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did.

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So she put her technical skills to use. She gathered all his texts, his emails, his entire digital footprint, loaded them into a system that finds patterns in data, and created a bot version of Roman. Then she started hearing from other people who had lost loved ones. They wanted to make a bot too. And Replika was born. Replika works mostly by texting with you. Through your chats, Replika learns your speech patterns and habits, thoughts and hopes and fears. It uses them to become you. To use the same emojis you do. Laugh (well, type “lol”) at the things that make you laugh. What could go wrong with a filter bubble of one? Mike Murphy, a reporter for Quartz, spent months talking to Replika - talking to himself. He wrote a strange and powerful article about the experience. It turns out, he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did.

Eugenia Kuyda and her best friend Roman had a habit of texting back and forth all day. When he was killed in a car crash, the void was enormous. So she put her technical skills to use. She gathered all his texts, his emails, his entire digital footprint, loaded them into a system that finds patterns in data, and created a bot version of Roman. Then she started hearing from other people who had lost loved ones. They wanted to make a bot too. And Replika was born. Replika works mostly by texting with you. Through your chats, Replika learns your speech patterns and habits, thoughts and hopes and fears. It uses them to become you. To use the same emojis you do. Laugh (well, type “lol”) at the things that make you laugh. What could go wrong with a filter bubble of one? Mike Murphy, a reporter for Quartz, spent months talking to Replika - talking to himself. He wrote a strange and powerful article about the experience. It turns out, he didn’t know himself as well as he thought he did.

When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another way to celebrate the life of someone who has passed away. A memorial bot is created by taking the The post Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another way to celebrate the life of someone who has passed away. A memorial bot is created by taking the The post Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.