Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda: “Your AI soulmate”
Danny In The Valley
English - March 29, 2024 08:55 - 43 minutes - 80.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsBusiness Technology interview entrepreneurship books culture comedy news business leadership health politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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).
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