Kuyda: Screen-monitoring AI nudges were impossible before recent multimodal advances
Eugenia Kuyda · Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda · Jan 15, 2025 · at 18:15
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda explains why proactive, screen-aware AI companion features could only be built with recent advances in multimodal and agentic AI architectures.
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“And I do think that's possible. And even a couple of years ago, and even last year, it wasn't possible. It's only, it only starts to become possible now because you couldn't build something that would not do to get off TikTok. Cause let's think about what do you need to, what do you actually need to build that? Well, you need an AI that can Maybe co-browse with you, or you can share your screen with, so you can actually know what you're doing. It, there needs to be enough sort of computer vision or I guess a multimodal model that can understand what you're doing right now. Can also understand some agentic logic that can understand that, okay, well you've been on TikTok for this amount of time. Some previous context of, you know, what do you have tomorrow, or what do you have to, what were you did today, so that it can actually nudge you to get off. So it's not that that simple. And all of that tech is only being really built now.”
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