AI companions

“So I do think that That's our weak side emotions. That's where we get, that's where we can be truly hit, and we won't have any willpower to get off, just like we don't have any willpower to get off our phones, even when we know that it's not good for us.”

“Memory is a harder thing to crack, especially for products that That are focused on long-term relationships that require very deep understanding of context. It's not just recall. It's really knowing when to bring up what, which is much different from just, y…”

“AI companions feels like something that ChatGPT, again, because they are all over the place with all their use cases, it's something that they're getting because they're the biggest name said to everyone at all times. It's something that can be replaced by any…”

“These type of things are going to definitely become real partners to people. People, when this technology has been bad or hardly workable, have gotten married to them. Before LLMs. So it's gonna happen again, and in greater numbers.”

“I think it's unlikely that, that that the future of search is, Is sort of a companion that you're sort of building maybe emotion, you know, sort of an emotional relationship with.”

“And we are absolutely going to be dealing with the fallout, but I do welcome you to the camp of thinking that this companion use case is real because it really is.”

“And I realized that actually what they were talking about when they were talking about friends, it's not friends at all. Cause you're not really having to adapt yourself. The entity, the AI entity is entirely adapting itself to you. So my fear, but it's a slig…”

“There are other companies doing that by the way, and they can make some money off of it. Like it's nothing. It's a drop in the bucket. I think compared to what Facebook is an Instagram, like their core businesses and whatever WhatsApp, you know, fits into that…”

“But if a company can figure out how to like build an AI companion, which I think is going to be even stickier than reels or tick tock, because come on, it's just like, you've built a digital friend. That's always there for you.”