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

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The Importance of Listening

The original goal was very simple. And we create an AI that will make people happier over time and can actually measure that. Unfortunately, there are not so many great measurements for happiness. We do like levels of depression levels and anxiety levels of stress,. loneliness, therapeutic bond and so on. The art of conversation is lost. People are also scared to open up. They don't think they're going to be accepted. They'll be scared to be judged. This is usually what's holding them back from actually building those relationships. So how do you avoid the fact that as a business, getting people addicted to this? Maybe you should go out to the real world and get a boyfriend or girlfriend

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