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#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Ability to Leave Us Is Really Powerful

I think AI systems that can leave us, now this is for more social robotics than it is for anything that's useful. But if it's just purely for companionship, then I think the ability to leave is really powerful. As we build socially and emotionally intelligent machines, what does that mean about our relationship with them? And then we're broadly our relationship with one another, right? Because this machine is going to be programmed to be amazing at empathy by definition,. It's not going to get bored. In fact, there's a chatbot in China, Shaois, and it's like the number two or three most popular app. People use it for all sorts of things.

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