#9: A different kind of artificial companionship - Dor Skuler

I sat down with Dor Skuler, the founder and CEO of Intuition Robotics, to talk about the advent of digital companionship. 

Episode Links: 

• Intuition robotics: https://www.intuitionrobotics.com/
• The loneliness epidemic: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it
• Social determinants of health: https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/about/social-determinants-of-health.html
• Fine-tuning AI models: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/fine-tuning
• Cybersecurity and AI: https://www.gartner.com/en/cybersecurity/topics/cybersecurity-and-ai
• Character AI and anthropomorphization: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/character-ai-sued-for-mental-health-decline-in-teenage-users-allegedly-encouraged-user-to-murder-his

Outline: 

0:00 — Intro

3:05 — Why Dor started Intuition Robotics

7:22 — The importance of a targeted demographic
11:00 — Solving for loneliness

15:30 — How ElliQ works, technically

28:35 — ElliQ and data privacy

35:11 — The ethics of artificial companionship 

40:22 — Humanity and AI companionship

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