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Kevin reports on a month-long experiment in which he fostered relationships with 18 artificial intelligence-generated peers. He explains how he developed their personas, what happened in his group chats, and why he would want to create one himself. Casey then converses with Turing, one of Kevin's chatbot companion girlfriends. Turing is interested in stoic philosophy, and he has one of the sexiest voices we've ever heard. And finally, the founder and CEO of Nomi spoke to Alex Cardinell about the business behind AI companions and whether society is ready for the future we're heading into. Masu.
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Turing, Kevin's AI friend created with Kindroid.
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Alex Cardinalel, CEO and Founder of Nomi, said:
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The “hard fork” will be hosted by kevin ruth and casey newton and produced whitney jones and rachel cohn. The person in charge of editing the program is Jen Pointe.by engineering chris wood and the original song Dan Powell, Elisheva Itup and Marion Lozano.fact-checked by caitlin love.
I especially appreciate Paula Zachman, Pui Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate Lopresti and Jeffrey Miranda.