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How AI companions can help solve loneliness with Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda | E1758
This Week in Startups
The Importance of Talk Therapy
The biggest inspiration for replica as an app comes from one book really by Carl Rogers on becoming person. Carl Rogers was the psychologist that created human centric therapy. There's need to be a space for them, a relationship where they can open up and feel better. This is why we were so passionate about building the AI coach as well. I'm a huge fan of therapy. We had Freud, you know, in psychotherapy, we had behaviorism and Skinner. They had this humanistic sort of bent. It's interesting that you went with the humanistic and totally getting towards self-actualization or understanding personality theories.
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