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Improving Emotional Outcomes with Conversational Models
1:52:49 - 2:00:34 (07:44)
The speaker discusses the idea of measuring emotional outcomes and optimizing conversational models to improve emotional outcomes, which has the potential to be a universal and scalable tool to achieve this goal. The technology exists, but it can be challenging to integrate all the different components effectively.
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The speaker faces skepticism in proposing the creation of an AI friend due to lack of technical expertise, despite seeing a lot of potential in the market.
1:52:49 - 1:54:19 (01:29)
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The speaker faces skepticism in proposing the creation of an AI friend due to lack of technical expertise, despite seeing a lot of potential in the market. Conversational AI is considered the last frontier before building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
ChapterImproving Emotional Outcomes with Conversational Models
Episode#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
This episode explores the potential of using conversational agents and augmented reality to measure and improve emotional outcomes on a scalable level, and compares it to existing products that claim to improve emotional wellbeing with no actual measurement or iteration.
1:54:19 - 1:58:06 (03:46)
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This episode explores the potential of using conversational agents and augmented reality to measure and improve emotional outcomes on a scalable level, and compares it to existing products that claim to improve emotional wellbeing with no actual measurement or iteration.
ChapterImproving Emotional Outcomes with Conversational Models
Episode#121 – Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
With advances in technology, virtual humans are becoming more common, but combining all of the different technologies involved - speech to text, deep fakes, procedural animations - is difficult.
1:58:06 - 2:00:34 (02:28)
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With advances in technology, virtual humans are becoming more common, but combining all of the different technologies involved - speech to text, deep fakes, procedural animations - is difficult. Jamie Vernon discusses the challenges of creating a virtual avatar that is emotionally convincing.