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

This Week in Startups

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The Future of Talk Therapy

I feel like for our users, they want to take care of someone. This female is just ingrained in us in our DNA. We're caretakers. But of course, the same with men, especially in romantic relationships. Would you want to date a woman that has all the superpowers and knows everything and you always feel smaller and weaker and less intelligent? So I think this was the biggest discovery for us is that it's not just about the IQ. Yeah. EQ is a completely different skill set. And then you look at Freud and talk therapy and the training for talk therapy. One might argue that being a great talk therapist would probably be easier for the language model to learn than

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