How AI companions can help solve loneliness with Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda | E1758

(0:00) Eugenia joins Jason
(1:43) Replika’s origin story
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(16:21) Relationships within the app
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(21:58) Creating happiness with AI
(26:26) Avoiding addiction
(29:25) Demographics within the AI field
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(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

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