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.
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).
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.
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.