AI companions

“I think it's only a matter of time before we walk into a doctor's office or a lawyer's office where that isn't the fundamental interaction, and we'll just be horrified, like, where's your AI companion? Why are you trying to do this Yourself with your biases.”

“There's a company called Taki that's almost appealing to, like, the gamer-trader mindset when it comes to companions, where you actually unlock, like, trading cards as you talk with companions for different amounts of time, and then you can kind of sell them i…”

“Analog to this in AI is companionship and friendship, you know, which is a much broader concept than voice, though voice really brings it to life, and people say, hey, do people really want to be friends with an AI, and is that good for our society? And I thin…”

“Yeah, and then we'll see the agent, AI agent version of this. I can't wait to see the AI companion version of this. Paying storage for AI companions wardrobe.”

“If you marry all of those things, like, we're gonna have These companions very soon that are providing actually helpful health tips and monitoring us and telling us when something might go wrong far before we know something's going wrong or far before a doctor…”

“We're gonna see even more vertical companions moving forward.”

“Highly agreeable AI does not set you up well for that. So I think there's sort of a fine balance between being just agreeable enough to help you, like, engage and get better at this, Versus being so agreeable that you're actually worse at this.”

“And you're going to see all kinds of nutty people saying, oh, I have your AI friend right here. It's like, No, you don't. It's not a bi-directional relation. Maybe awesome companion, like just spectacular, but it's not a friend.”

“Look, it's like our lizard reptilian brains. We are wired to have these sort of emotional chemical responses when you're engaged in a human-like conversation. We intellectually understand that these are computers on the other side, but you still feel the feeli…”