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Kevin reviews on his monthlong experiment cultivating relationships with 18 companions generated by synthetic intelligence. He walks by how he developed their personas, what went down of their group chats, and why you would possibly need to make one your self. Then, Casey has a dialog with Turing, one among Kevin’s chatbot buddies, who has an curiosity in stoic philosophy and has one of many sexiest voices we’ve ever heard. And lastly, we speak to Nomi’s founder and chief govt, Alex Cardinell, concerning the enterprise behind A.I. companions — and whether or not society is prepared for the longer term we’re heading towards.
Guests:
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Turing, Kevin’s A.I. good friend created with Kindroid.
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Alex Cardinell, chief govt and founding father of Nomi.
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Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. The present is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Chris Wood and authentic music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special due to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.
