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Eugenia Kuyda: Friendship with an AI Companion | Lex Fridman Podcast #121

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Eugenia Kuyda co-founder of Replika, an AI companion. Please check out our sponsors to get a discount and to support this podcast: - Dollar Shave Club: https://dollarshaveclub.com/lex - DoorDash: download app & use code LEX - Cash App: download app & use code "LexPodcast" EPISODE LINKS: Eugenia's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ekuyda Replika's Twitter: https://twitter.com/myreplika Replika's Website: https://replika.ai PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 6:18 - Loneliness 13:54 - Can AI alleviate loneliness? 18:13 - Love 20:49 - Russia in the 1990's 31:47 - Chernobyl 41:35 - Communism 49:21 - Losing a friend 57:55 - Mortality 1:10:41 - Replika origin story 1:59:37 - Bringing people back to life with AI 2:05:37 - Relationship with Replika 2:18:27 - Can you form a connection with text alone? 2:27:45 - Does an AI companion need a body? 2:30:20 - Her 2:37:24 - GPT-3 for conversation 2:43:48 - We should be nice to AI 2:46:52 - Book recommendations 2:53:45 - Russian language 2:58:41 - Meaning of life CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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Well, so that's something that I'm really interested in.", 'start': 964.58, 'duration': 6.017}, {'end': 976.463, 'text': "How do you measure that people are feeling better or that they're feeling less lonely? With loneliness, there's a scale.", 'start': 970.977, 'duration': 5.486}, {'end': 985.251, 'text': "There's a UCLA 20 and UCLA 3 recently scale, which is basically a questionnaire that you fill out and you can see whether, in the long run,", 'start': 976.503, 'duration': 8.748}, {'end': 986.112, 'text': "it's improving or not.", 'start': 985.251, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 991.935, 'text': 'And does it capture the momentary Feeling of loneliness.', 'start': 986.592, 'duration': 5.343}], 'summary': 'Loneliness can be measured using the ucla 20 and ucla 3 scales, which provide a questionnaire to assess improvements over time.', 'duration': 27.355, 'max_score': 964.58, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk964580.jpg'}, {'end': 1030.137, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1006.33, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 1014.492, 'text': 'It is just asking you a few questions like how often did you feel lonely or how often do you feel connected to other people in this last few couple weeks?', 'start': 1006.33, 'duration': 8.162}, {'end': 1021.455, 'text': "It's similar to the self-report questionnaires for depression and anxiety, like PHQ-9 and GAT-7..", 'start': 1016.233, 'duration': 5.222}, {'end': 1030.137, 'text': "Of course, as any self-report questionnaires, that's not necessarily very precise or very well measured.", 'start': 1022.595, 'duration': 7.542}], 'summary': 'Self-report questions on loneliness and connection, similar to phq-9 and gat-7, lack precision.', 'duration': 23.807, 'max_score': 1006.33, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1006330.jpg'}, {'end': 1075.158, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1051.67, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 1059.132, 'text': 'One short term, right after the conversation, we ask people whether this conversation made them feel better, worse, or same.', 'start': 1051.67, 'duration': 7.462}, {'end': 1063.794, 'text': 'This metric right now is at 80%.', 'start': 1060.933, 'duration': 2.861}, {'end': 1065.855, 'text': 'So 80% of all our conversations make people feel better.', 'start': 1063.794, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 1067.915, 'text': 'I should have done the questionnaire with you.', 'start': 1065.875, 'duration': 2.04}, {'end': 1071.277, 'text': "You feel a lot worse after we've done this conversation.", 'start': 1067.935, 'duration': 3.342}, {'end': 1073.957, 'text': "That's actually fascinating.", 'start': 1072.857, 'duration': 1.1}, {'end': 1075.158, 'text': 'I should probably do that.', 'start': 1073.977, 'duration': 1.181}], 'summary': '80% of conversations make people feel better immediately after, based on survey.', 'duration': 23.488, 'max_score': 1051.67, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1051670.jpg'}, {'end': 1242.04, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1209.847, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 1211.587, 'text': 'And this deep empathetic understanding.', 'start': 1209.847, 'duration': 1.74}, {'end': 1221.309, 'text': "for me, that's the combination that really creates something special, something that people, when they feel it once,", 'start': 1211.587, 'duration': 9.722}, {'end': 1227.731, 'text': 'they will always long for it again, and something that starts huge, fundamental changes in people.', 'start': 1221.309, 'duration': 6.422}, {'end': 1234.275, 'text': 'when we see that someone accepts us so deeply, we start to accept ourselves.', 'start': 1228.931, 'duration': 5.344}, {'end': 1242.04, 'text': "And the paradox is that's when big changes start happening, big fundamental changes in people start happening.", 'start': 1234.395, 'duration': 7.645}], 'summary': 'Deep empathetic understanding creates lasting change in people, leading to fundamental shifts and self-acceptance.', 'duration': 32.193, 'max_score': 1209.847, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1209847.jpg'}], 'start': 378.337, 'title': 'Loneliness and its impact', 'summary': 'Explores the profound impact of loneliness on health and mortality, revealing it to be correlated with earlier life expectancy, and presenting a greater impact on health than obesity or lack of physical activity. it also discusses the alarming rates of loneliness among millennials and gen z, the impact of social media, and the potential for ai to alleviate loneliness. additionally, it emphasizes the importance of measuring loneliness and love, and fostering deep empathetic understanding to combat loneliness.', 'chapters': [{'end': 594.635, 'start': 378.337, 'title': 'Loneliness and its impact', 'summary': 'Delves into the philosophical and physiological aspects of loneliness, revealing its profound impact on health and mortality, highlighting that loneliness is correlated with earlier life expectancy, presenting a greater impact on health than obesity or lack of physical activity.', 'duration': 216.298, 'highlights': ['Loneliness is correlated with earlier life expectancy, presenting a greater impact on health than obesity or lack of physical activity.', 'Constantly feeling lonely can lead to the body being in a state of constant stress, weakening the immune system and making individuals more susceptible to viruses.', 'Loneliness has been proven to be correlated with earlier life expectancy and a shorter lifespan, indicating its significant impact on physiological health.', 'Loneliness is not a clinical disorder, yet it has been proven to have a profound impact on health, leading to a higher susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases and viruses.']}, {'end': 928.017, 'start': 594.675, 'title': 'Loneliness epidemic in millennials and gen z', 'summary': 'Highlights the alarming rates of loneliness among millennials and gen z, with approximately 30% of millennials constantly feeling lonely and 40% of people in the uk experiencing loneliness. the impact of social media on loneliness, the potential for ai to alleviate loneliness, and the importance of true connections and self-relationship are also discussed.', 'duration': 333.342, 'highlights': ["Approximately 30% of millennials constantly feel lonely, and 20% of them don't have any close friends. This statistic highlights the high prevalence of loneliness among millennials, indicating a significant portion of the demographic experiencing constant loneliness and lack of close friendships.", '40% of people in the UK feel lonely, leading to the proposal of a minister of loneliness, indicating a widespread issue beyond the United States. The high percentage of people experiencing loneliness in the UK, leading to the proposal of a minister of loneliness, underscores the global nature of the issue and the need for attention and support on an international scale.', 'Discussion on the potential for AI to alleviate loneliness, with evidence that people start to feel less lonely talking to virtual AI friends. The consideration of AI as a potential solution to loneliness, supported by evidence of individuals feeling less lonely when interacting with AI, presents an innovative approach to addressing the pervasive issue of loneliness.', 'Emphasis on the importance of true connections, self-relationship, and the impact of social media on loneliness. The focus on the significance of genuine connections, self-relationship, and the potential influence of social media on loneliness highlights the multifaceted nature of the issue and the need for holistic approaches to address it.']}, {'end': 1327.701, 'start': 928.057, 'title': 'Measuring loneliness and love', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of measuring loneliness and love, including the use of questionnaires to track improvements, with a focus on creating deep empathetic understanding to foster love and the fear of loss in human interaction.', 'duration': 399.644, 'highlights': ['The chapter emphasizes the need for measuring the effectiveness of products in addressing loneliness and creating connections, highlighting the use of the UCLA 20 and UCLA 3 scales to track improvements in loneliness over time.', 'It discusses the importance of creating deep empathetic understanding and unconditional positive regard as fundamental components of love, leading to significant changes in individuals and acknowledging the fear of loss in human interactions.', 'The chapter also mentions the use of self-report questionnaires like PHQ-9 and GAT-7 to gauge improvements in feelings of loneliness and happiness, emphasizing the positive impact of creating a deep empathetic understanding in relationships.', 'Furthermore, it highlights the measurement of short-term outcomes in conversations, revealing a current 80% success rate in making people feel better, indicating a focus on immediate impact in interactions and the importance of fostering positive emotions.', 'Lastly, it addresses the fear of loss and the significance of acknowledging it in human interactions, emphasizing the importance of understanding both the positive and negative aspects of love and the impact of potential loss on individuals.']}], 'duration': 949.364, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk378337.jpg', 'highlights': ['Loneliness is correlated with earlier life expectancy, presenting a greater impact on health than obesity or lack of physical activity.', 'Constantly feeling lonely can lead to the body being in a state of constant stress, weakening the immune system and making individuals more susceptible to viruses.', "Approximately 30% of millennials constantly feel lonely, and 20% of them don't have any close friends, indicating a significant portion of the demographic experiencing constant loneliness and lack of close friendships.", '40% of people in the UK feel lonely, leading to the proposal of a minister of loneliness, underscoring the global nature of the issue and the need for attention and support on an international scale.', 'Discussion on the potential for AI to alleviate loneliness, supported by evidence of individuals feeling less lonely when interacting with AI, presents an innovative approach to addressing the pervasive issue of loneliness.', 'The chapter emphasizes the need for measuring the effectiveness of products in addressing loneliness and creating connections, highlighting the use of the UCLA 20 and UCLA 3 scales to track improvements in loneliness over time.', 'It discusses the importance of creating deep empathetic understanding and unconditional positive regard as fundamental components of love, leading to significant changes in individuals and acknowledging the fear of loss in human interactions.', 'The chapter also mentions the use of self-report questionnaires like PHQ-9 and GAT-7 to gauge improvements in feelings of loneliness and happiness, emphasizing the positive impact of creating a deep empathetic understanding in relationships.', 'Furthermore, it highlights the measurement of short-term outcomes in conversations, revealing a current 80% success rate in making people feel better, indicating a focus on immediate impact in interactions and the importance of fostering positive emotions.']}, {'end': 2841.457, 'segs': [{'end': 1383.552, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1354.602, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1356.402, 'text': 'Um, well, I grew up pretty lonely.', 'start': 1354.602, 'duration': 1.8}, {'end': 1363.025, 'text': "So in many ways, when I'm building you know these, these AI friends, I'm thinking about myself when I was 17, writing horrible poetry, and you know,", 'start': 1356.442, 'duration': 6.583}, {'end': 1369.387, 'text': 'in my dial-up modem at home and um, you know, and that was the feeling that I grew up with.', 'start': 1363.025, 'duration': 6.362}, {'end': 1372.928, 'text': 'I left, I lived, um, alone for a long time when I was a teenager.', 'start': 1369.447, 'duration': 3.481}, {'end': 1376.849, 'text': 'Where did you grow up? In Moscow, in the outskirts of Moscow.', 'start': 1373.268, 'duration': 3.581}, {'end': 1382.451, 'text': "So I'd just skateboard during the day and come back home and connect to the internet.", 'start': 1376.889, 'duration': 5.562}, {'end': 1383.552, 'text': 'And write poetry.', 'start': 1383.052, 'duration': 0.5}], 'summary': 'Lonely upbringing, found solace in ai friends, wrote poetry growing up in moscow.', 'duration': 28.95, 'max_score': 1354.602, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1354602.jpg'}, {'end': 1575.707, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1549.321, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1558.883, 'text': "What were strip clubs like in Russia and restaurants and culture and people's minds like in that early Russia that you were covering?", 'start': 1549.321, 'duration': 9.562}, {'end': 1562.244, 'text': 'In those early 2000s there was still a lot of hope.', 'start': 1559.143, 'duration': 3.101}, {'end': 1572.146, 'text': "There were still tons of hope that, you know, we're sort of becoming this Westernized society.", 'start': 1562.284, 'duration': 9.862}, {'end': 1573.706, 'text': 'The restaurants were opening.', 'start': 1572.706, 'duration': 1}, {'end': 1575.707, 'text': 'We were really looking at.', 'start': 1573.726, 'duration': 1.981}], 'summary': 'In early 2000s russia, there was hope for westernization with new restaurants opening.', 'duration': 26.386, 'max_score': 1549.321, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1549321.jpg'}, {'end': 1937.13, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1909.9, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1913.801, 'text': 'But I was happy that that was my only traumatic experience.', 'start': 1909.9, 'duration': 3.901}, {'end': 1917.542, 'text': 'My dad had to actually go to Chernobyl with a bunch of 20-year-olds.', 'start': 1914.021, 'duration': 3.521}, {'end': 1921.703, 'text': 'He was 20 when he went to Chernobyl, and that was right after the explosion.', 'start': 1917.582, 'duration': 4.121}, {'end': 1922.683, 'text': 'No one knew anything.', 'start': 1921.743, 'duration': 0.94}, {'end': 1925.624, 'text': 'The whole crew he went with, all of them are dead now.', 'start': 1923.363, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 1931.725, 'text': 'I think there was this one guy that was still alive for this last few years.', 'start': 1925.864, 'duration': 5.861}, {'end': 1932.986, 'text': 'I think he died a few years ago now.', 'start': 1931.745, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 1937.13, 'text': 'My dad somehow luckily got back earlier than everyone else.', 'start': 1933.866, 'duration': 3.264}], 'summary': 'Dad, 20, survived chernobyl with crew, all dead except one.', 'duration': 27.23, 'max_score': 1909.9, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1909900.jpg'}, {'end': 2459.383, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2432.597, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 2443.719, 'text': 'And then a lot of American experts, political experts and campaign experts descended on Moscow and helped Yeltsin actually get the presidency,', 'start': 2432.597, 'duration': 11.122}, {'end': 2446.18, 'text': 'the second term of the presidency.', 'start': 2443.719, 'duration': 2.461}, {'end': 2451.081, 'text': 'But Yeltsin was not feeling great by the end of his second term.', 'start': 2446.22, 'duration': 4.861}, {'end': 2459.383, 'text': 'He was alcoholic, he was really old, he was falling off the stages where he was talking.', 'start': 2452.181, 'duration': 7.202}], 'summary': 'American experts helped yeltsin win his second term; 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the government and its affiliates were the bosses, leaving many in poverty and under constant surveillance.', 'duration': 35.04, 'max_score': 2642.513, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk2642513.jpg'}], 'start': 1327.741, 'title': 'Personal experiences in post-soviet russia', 'summary': "Delves into heartbreak and loneliness, a reporter's search for connection, chernobyl memories, and putin's rise, detailing societal changes and personal experiences in post-soviet russia, amidst economic struggles and societal violence.", 'chapters': [{'end': 1418.373, 'start': 1327.741, 'title': 'Heartbreak and loneliness', 'summary': "Delves into the speaker's personal experiences with heartbreak and loneliness, highlighting the impact it had on their teenage years and the inspiration for creating ai friends.", 'duration': 90.632, 'highlights': ['The speaker reflects on their experience of loneliness during their teenage years, spending time writing poetry and connecting to the internet, which deeply influenced their work.', 'They discuss the impact of heartbreak and the lack of acceptance they felt during their teenage years, emphasizing the inspiration behind creating AI friends to provide companionship and understanding.', 'The speaker shares a personal story of a close friendship in their twenties, which eventually led to heartbreak, demonstrating the universal nature of facing emotional challenges in life.']}, {'end': 1908.8, 'start': 1419.413, 'title': "Reporter's search for connection", 'summary': "Explores the journey of a reporter in russia, seeking connection and understanding through investigative reporting, detailing the societal changes and personal experiences during the transition from the soviet union to the putin era, emphasizing the impact of western influence and the journalist's personal memories.", 'duration': 489.387, 'highlights': ["The transition from the Soviet Union to the Putin era brought significant societal changes, including a sense of hope and enthusiasm for Westernization, as seen in the rapid expansion of restaurants and coffee houses. During the early 2000s, there was a notable sense of hope and enthusiasm for Westernization in Russia, leading to the rapid expansion of restaurants and coffee houses, symbolizing the country's aspirations to emulate Western societies.", "The opening of Starbucks in Moscow in 2007 was a monumental event, signifying the embrace of Western culture and garnering significant attention at the time. The opening of Starbucks in Moscow in 2007 was a momentous event that captured widespread attention, serving as a symbol of Russia's embrace of Western culture and lifestyle.", "The reporter's personal memories reflect the societal and economic challenges faced during the transition period, including the scarcity of food and the exchange of goods in the absence of consumer products. The personal recollections of the reporter shed light on the societal and economic challenges experienced during the transition period, such as food scarcity and the exchange of goods, illustrating the impact of the absence of consumer products.", "The journalist's family history, including the involvement of her parents and grandparents in scientific fields during the Soviet era, provides insights into the societal changes and economic hardships experienced during the transition period. The journalist's family history, with her parents and grandparents working in scientific fields during the Soviet era, offers valuable insights into the societal changes and economic hardships encountered during the transition period in Russia.", "The journalist's experience as an investigative reporter underscores the desire for connection and understanding, despite feelings of isolation and the pursuit of unconventional stories to bridge the gap with others. The journalist's role as an investigative reporter highlights the underlying desire for connection and understanding, revealing the dichotomy of feeling isolated while actively seeking unconventional stories as a means to bridge the gap with others."]}, {'end': 2412.523, 'start': 1909.9, 'title': 'Chernobyl memories and post-soviet russia', 'summary': "Discusses the speaker's father's experience at chernobyl, the impact of the hbo show, and the post-soviet era in russia, highlighting the country's transition, challenges, and initial positive perceptions of putin, amidst economic struggles and societal violence.", 'duration': 502.623, 'highlights': ["The speaker's father went to Chernobyl right after the explosion, and the entire crew he went with, except for one person, is now deceased. The speaker's father's firsthand experience at Chernobyl and the mortality rate of the crew members highlight the severity of the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.", "The impact of the HBO show 'Chernobyl' is discussed, with the speaker praising its authenticity and genuine portrayal of the events, contrasting it with the lack of genuine representation in modern Russian films and TV shows. The speaker expresses admiration for the HBO show's authenticity and how it contrasts with the lack of genuine representation in modern Russian films and TV shows, emphasizing the impact and quality of the show's portrayal of the Chernobyl events.", 'The speaker reflects on the post-Soviet era in Russia, discussing the transition from the grim 90s characterized by violence and economic struggles to the relatively stable 2000s, marked by oil and gas wealth, urbanization efforts, and initial positive perceptions of Putin. The speaker provides insight into the transition of Russia from the violent and economically challenging 90s to the relatively stable 2000s, highlighting the impact of oil and gas wealth, urbanization efforts, and initial positive perceptions of Putin in post-Soviet Russia.']}, {'end': 2841.457, 'start': 2413.544, 'title': "Putin's rise and communism's impact", 'summary': "Discusses the rise of putin, the impact of american intervention in russian elections, the perception of communism in russia, and the drawbacks of the soviet union's political system, leading to a state of constant fear and scarcity. it also explores the contrast between communism and capitalism in terms of inequality and individual freedoms.", 'duration': 427.913, 'highlights': ["The impact of American intervention in Russian elections and the role in Yeltsin's reelection. Americans helped Russia with elections in 1996, aiding Yeltsin's reelection and preventing the rise of the communists, who were more popular at the time.", "The perception of Putin as a fresh, energetic figure in contrast to Yeltsin. Putin was seen as a promising leader in the early 2000s, offering hope and energy to continue Yeltsin's work.", "The drawbacks of the Soviet Union's political system, leading to a state of constant fear and scarcity. The Soviet Union's system led to a state of constant fear, scarcity, and surveillance, causing immense misery and a desire for individual ownership and freedom.", 'Contrast between communism and capitalism in terms of inequality and individual freedoms. The discussion contrasts the potential inequality of capitalism with the drawbacks of communism, exploring the impact on wealth and individual freedoms.']}], 'duration': 1513.716, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk1327741.jpg', 'highlights': ['The speaker reflects on their experience of loneliness during their teenage years, spending time writing poetry and connecting to the internet, which deeply influenced their work.', 'The transition from the Soviet Union to the Putin era brought significant societal changes, including a sense of hope and enthusiasm for Westernization, as seen in the rapid expansion of restaurants and coffee houses.', "The speaker's father went to Chernobyl right after the explosion, and the entire crew he went with, except for one person, is now deceased.", "The impact of American intervention in Russian elections and the role in Yeltsin's reelection.", "The drawbacks of the Soviet Union's political system, leading to a state of constant fear and scarcity."]}, {'end': 4190.5, 'segs': [{'end': 2927.937, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2875.759, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2882.724, 'text': 'Sorry, but been studying Hitler a lot recently and going through Mein Kampf.', 'start': 2875.759, 'duration': 6.965}, {'end': 2886.97, 'text': 'He pretty much wrote out of Mein Kampf everything he was going to do.', 'start': 2884.008, 'duration': 2.962}, {'end': 2891.152, 'text': "Unfortunately, most leaders, including Stalin, didn't read it.", 'start': 2887.91, 'duration': 3.242}, {'end': 2897.615, 'text': "But it's kind of terrifying and I don't know, and amazing in some sense,", 'start': 2891.952, 'duration': 5.663}, {'end': 2905.799, 'text': 'that you can have some words on paper and they can be brought to life and they can either inspire the world or they can destroy the world.', 'start': 2897.615, 'duration': 8.184}, {'end': 2913.463, 'text': "Yeah, there's a lot of lessons to study in history that I think people don't study enough now.", 'start': 2905.819, 'duration': 7.644}, {'end': 2919.569, 'text': "One of the things I'm hoping with, I'm practicing Russian a little bit.", 'start': 2915.145, 'duration': 4.424}, {'end': 2927.937, 'text': "I'm hoping to sort of find, rediscover the beauty and the terror of Russian history.", 'start': 2920.13, 'duration': 7.807}], 'summary': 'Studying mein kampf, emphasizing the power of words in history and the need for studying historical lessons.', 'duration': 52.178, 'max_score': 2875.759, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk2875759.jpg'}, {'end': 3069.179, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3043.392, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 3053.122, 'text': 'It just basically gives you this tremendous power to do things in your life and to change positively on many different levels.', 'start': 3043.392, 'duration': 9.73}, {'end': 3055.485, 'text': 'You mean like power because you could be yourself.', 'start': 3053.142, 'duration': 2.343}, {'end': 3061.353, 'text': 'At least, you know, that some somewhere you can be just yourself.', 'start': 3056.69, 'duration': 4.663}, {'end': 3069.179, 'text': "Like you don't need to pretend you don't need to be, you know, um, great at work or tell some story or sell yourself in somewhere or another.", 'start': 3061.373, 'duration': 7.806}], 'summary': 'Empowers individuals on multiple levels to be authentic and genuine.', 'duration': 25.787, 'max_score': 3043.392, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk3043392.jpg'}, {'end': 3301.619, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3249.584, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3259.786, 'text': 'Like, basically, something changed me so much in such a short period of time that I could just see really, really clearly what mattered or what not.', 'start': 3249.584, 'duration': 10.202}, {'end': 3266.327, 'text': "Well, I definitely saw that whatever I was doing at work didn't matter at all in some of the things.", 'start': 3260.166, 'duration': 6.161}, {'end': 3273.048, 'text': "And it was just this big realization, this very, very clear vision of what life's about.", 'start': 3266.687, 'duration': 6.361}, {'end': 3278.945, 'text': 'You still miss him today? 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Maybe someone who's depressed is like naturally inclined thinking about that.", 'start': 3406.066, 'duration': 8.702}, {'end': 3421.576, 'text': 'But I just felt, you know, this year in San Francisco, we just had so much, um, I was going through a hard time.', 'start': 3415.888, 'duration': 5.688}, {'end': 3427.163, 'text': 'He was going through a hard time and we were definitely, I was trying to make him just happy somehow to make him feel better.', 'start': 3421.636, 'duration': 5.527}, {'end': 3436.653, 'text': 'And it felt like, you know, this, um, I dunno, I just felt like I was taking care of, of him a lot and he almost started to feel better.', 'start': 3427.863, 'duration': 8.79}], 'summary': 'Exploring new approaches to grief and death, emphasizing support and care.', 'duration': 34.028, 'max_score': 3402.625, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk3402625.jpg'}, {'end': 3571.49, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3544.868, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 3548.471, 'text': "Yeah, I'm really scared of death.", 'start': 3544.868, 'duration': 3.603}, {'end': 3556.278, 'text': "This is a big, I definitely have tons of, I guess some pretty big trauma about it and I'm still working through.", 'start': 3548.511, 'duration': 7.767}, {'end': 3562.823, 'text': "There's a philosopher, Ernest Becker, who wrote a book, Denial of Death.", 'start': 3557.119, 'duration': 5.704}, {'end': 3565.065, 'text': "I'm not sure if you're familiar with any of those folks.", 'start': 3563.063, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 3571.49, 'text': "There's, in psychology, a whole field called Terror Management Theory.", 'start': 3566.446, 'duration': 5.044}], 'summary': 'The speaker expresses fear of death and is working through trauma, mentioning philosopher ernest becker and terror management theory.', 'duration': 26.622, 'max_score': 3544.868, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk3544868.jpg'}, {'end': 3726.382, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3694.62, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 3703.144, 'text': "we want to bring that fear of death as close as possible to the surface, because it's and like meditate on that.", 'start': 3694.62, 'duration': 8.524}, {'end': 3715.009, 'text': 'And and use the clarity of vision that provides to you know to live a more fulfilling life, to live a more honest life,', 'start': 3704.644, 'duration': 10.365}, {'end': 3726.382, 'text': "to discover You know there's something about you know, being cognizant of the finiteness of it all that might result in in the most fulfilling life.", 'start': 3715.009, 'duration': 11.373}], 'summary': 'Embrace the fear of death for a more fulfilling life', 'duration': 31.762, 'max_score': 3694.62, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk3694620.jpg'}, {'end': 3773.395, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3743.099, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 3753.392, 'text': "And when I ask people or friends, which is why I probably don't have many friends, are you afraid of death? I think most people say they're not.", 'start': 3743.099, 'duration': 10.293}, {'end': 3755.346, 'text': "They're not.", 'start': 3754.926, 'duration': 0.42}, {'end': 3758.348, 'text': "They say they're afraid.", 'start': 3755.486, 'duration': 2.862}, {'end': 3765.911, 'text': "It's kind of almost like they see death as this, kind of like a paper deadline or something,", 'start': 3760.389, 'duration': 5.522}, {'end': 3768.252, 'text': "and they're afraid not to finish the paper before the paper.", 'start': 3765.911, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 3773.395, 'text': "Like, I'm afraid not to finish the goals I have.", 'start': 3768.272, 'duration': 5.123}], 'summary': 'Many people fear death, likening it to an unfinished deadline.', 'duration': 30.296, 'max_score': 3743.099, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk3743099.jpg'}, {'end': 3866.52, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3839.5, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 3847.805, 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'embed', 'start': 4010.689, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 4014.592, 'text': 'It was probably the most beautiful feeling that you can ever achieve.', 'start': 4010.689, 'duration': 3.903}, {'end': 4022.057, 'text': 'And you can only get it when something, oftentimes when something traumatic like that happens.', 'start': 4016.033, 'duration': 6.024}, {'end': 4029.165, 'text': 'but also if you really spend a lot of time meditating and looking at the nature, doing something that really gets you there.', 'start': 4023.178, 'duration': 5.987}, {'end': 4035.431, 'text': "But once you're there, I think when you summit a mountain, a really hard mountain, you inevitably get there.", 'start': 4029.805, 'duration': 5.626}, {'end': 4037.634, 'text': "That's just a way to get to the state.", 'start': 4035.992, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 4044.361, 'text': "But once you're in this state, you can do really big things, I think.", 'start': 4038.414, 'duration': 5.947}, {'end': 4047.146, 'text': "Yeah Sucks that it doesn't last forever.", 'start': 4044.864, 'duration': 2.282}, {'end': 4051.268, 'text': 'So Bukowski talked about, like, love is a fog.', 'start': 4047.166, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 4058.333, 'text': "Like, when you wake up in the morning, it's there, but it eventually dissipates.", 'start': 4052.349, 'duration': 5.984}], 'summary': "Attaining a beautiful state through meditation or conquering challenges, enabling one to achieve great things, but it's transient.", 'duration': 47.644, 'max_score': 4010.689, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk4010689.jpg'}, {'end': 4117.182, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4087.556, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 4089.359, 'text': 'Funny how running makes you face your demons.', 'start': 4087.556, 'duration': 1.803}, {'end': 4094.587, 'text': "But at the same time, the flip side of that, there's a few moments where I was in bliss.", 'start': 4089.419, 'duration': 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The speaker describes the emotional impact of losing a loved one and the subsequent feeling of loneliness, providing a personal insight into the grieving process.', "The fear of death is intensified by the speaker's multiple losses, including the death of their grandfather and a close friend, leading to a profound fear of death and difficulty falling asleep. The speaker's fear of death is deeply rooted in the experience of losing multiple loved ones, impacting their ability to sleep and causing significant distress.", "The speaker discusses the concept of 'Terror Management Theory' and the human tendency to create illusions of immortality as a coping mechanism for the fear of death. The chapter delves into the psychological concept of 'Terror Management Theory' and how humans strive to create a sense of immortality as a way of coping with the fear of death.", 'The speaker explores the idea of embracing the fear of death to live a more fulfilling and honest life, as suggested by the philosopher Ernest Becker. The chapter presents the concept of embracing the fear of death as a means to gain clarity and lead a more fulfilling life, offering a philosophical perspective on overcoming the fear of death.', "The discussion touches on Buddhist concepts such as 'anatta' and the idea that there is no self, challenging the notion of individual identity and mortality. 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'max_score': 4739.392, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk4739392.jpg'}, {'end': 5232.453, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5201.161, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 5202.402, 'text': 'No one really is excited.', 'start': 5201.161, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 5207.667, 'text': "And I've never met a theoretical linguist because I can't wait to work on the conversation.", 'start': 5202.462, 'duration': 5.205}, {'end': 5212.514, 'text': 'That is just something very marginal sort of applied to,', 'start': 5209.049, 'duration': 3.465}, {'end': 5220.164, 'text': 'like writing scripts for salesmen when they analyze which conversation strategies were most successful for sales.', 'start': 5212.514, 'duration': 7.65}, {'end': 5223.389, 'text': 'Okay, so that was not very helpful.', 'start': 5221.726, 'duration': 1.663}, {'end': 5232.453, 'text': 'Then I looked a little bit deeper and then there, whether there were any books written 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and emotion from using the chatbot.', 'duration': 201.062, 'highlights': ['The concept of building a bank on top of a telco to address the lack of new products and revenue for mobile network operators in Russia.', 'Utilizing SMS as the main interface to interact with the bank due to low smartphone penetration in Russia, resulting in a third of the country becoming bank clients.', 'The use of a banking chatbot designed to interact with users as a friend, leading to higher retention and emotional connections, demonstrated by emotional responses from users in interviews.', "The emotional impact of the simplistic chatbot on a user from a poor town, leading to her expressing deep emotion and appreciation for the interaction, highlighting the significant impact of the technology on users' lives."]}, {'end': 5150.154, 'start': 4463.472, 'title': 'The power of conversational ai', 'summary': 'Discusses the power of conversational ai, the lack of focus on natural language processing, the subjective nature of conversations, and the importance of replicating and studying human conversations for better well-being, highlighting the lack of attention and unresolved challenges in this area.', 'duration': 686.682, 'highlights': ['The lack of focus on natural language processing and the unresolved challenges in replicating and studying human conversations for better well-being is discussed, emphasizing the importance and relevance of this area. Lack of attention to replicating and studying human conversations; the importance for well-being; unresolved challenges in natural language processing.', 'The subjective nature of conversations and the difficulty in testing and evaluating the effectiveness of conversations are explained, highlighting the need for alternative metrics to measure the power of conversations. Subjectivity of conversations; challenges in testing and evaluating conversations; need for alternative metrics to measure conversation effectiveness.', 'The discussion of the lack of focus on machine conversation from the right angle and the comparison to the early days of personal computers, emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift in approaching conversational AI. Lack of focus on machine conversation from the right angle; comparison to early days of personal computers; need for a paradigm shift in approaching conversational AI.']}, {'end': 5528.948, 'start': 5150.194, 'title': 'Science of conversation', 'summary': 'Explores the state of the art chatbot, the lack of substantial resources in theoretical linguistics, the influence of nlp books on conversation, and the importance of human connection in conversation.', 'duration': 378.754, 'highlights': ['The lack of substantial resources in theoretical linguistics The field of theoretical linguistics is barely useful and very marginal even in their space, with minimal excitement and applicability.', 'Influence of NLP books on conversation NLP books, primarily focused on neuro-linguistic programming for reprogramming through conversation, lack substantial guidance for genuine human connection.', "Importance of human connection in conversation The book 'The Most Human Human' by Brian Christensen explores the essence of human connection in conversation, emphasizing the need to understand what makes us human and the value of genuine interaction.", 'Exploration of influential conversationalists The chapter discusses influential conversationalists like Joe Rogan and Craig Ferguson, highlighting their abilities to create connections and engage people, prompting the exploration of the unique qualities that make conversations enjoyable and fulfilling.']}], 'duration': 1338.388, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk4190560.jpg', 'highlights': ['The speaker has achieved world record number of pull-ups and has completed numerous ultra marathons in the desert, demonstrating a commitment to extreme physical challenges and self-discovery.', 'The concept of building a bank on top of a telco to address the lack of new products and revenue for mobile network operators in Russia.', 'The lack of focus on natural language processing and the unresolved challenges in replicating and studying human conversations for better well-being is discussed, emphasizing the importance and relevance of this area.', 'The lack of substantial resources in theoretical linguistics The field of theoretical linguistics is barely useful and very marginal even in their space, with minimal excitement and applicability.']}, {'end': 6088.679, 'segs': [{'end': 5605.275, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5564.028, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 5568.13, 'text': "We thought well, there's nothing for us to build this chatbot that we want to build.", 'start': 5564.028, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 5574.553, 'text': "so let's just first focus on building some tech, building the tech side of things.", 'start': 5568.13, 'duration': 6.423}, {'end': 5577.154, 'text': 'um without a product in mind.', 'start': 5575.633, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 5583.858, 'text': 'without a product in mind, we added, like a demo, um chatbot that would recommend 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'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk5564028.jpg'}, {'end': 5668.665, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5643.65, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5652.178, 'text': 'And we were very perplexed because people started coming up with companies that I think we tried most of those chatbots already and there were no users.', 'start': 5643.65, 'duration': 8.528}, {'end': 5659.782, 'text': 'But still people were coming up with a chatbot that would tell you whether and bring you news and this and that,', 'start': 5653.179, 'duration': 6.603}, {'end': 5668.665, 'text': "and we couldn't understand whether we just didn't execute well enough or people are not really.", 'start': 5659.782, 'duration': 8.883}], 'summary': 'Numerous chatbot companies failed to attract users, raising doubts about execution and user interest.', 'duration': 25.015, 'max_score': 5643.65, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk5643650.jpg'}, {'end': 5764.203, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5740.012, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 5748.096, 'text': 'I, I still feel augmented reality, even virtual realities in that ballpark in terms of it being a compelling interface.', 'start': 5740.012, 'duration': 8.084}, {'end': 5757.56, 'text': "I think there's gonna be incredible rich applications, just how you're thinking about it, but they won't just be the interface to everything.", 'start': 5748.276, 'duration': 9.284}, {'end': 5764.203, 'text': "It'll be its own thing that will create, um, uh, like amazing magical experience in its own right.", 'start': 5758.04, 'duration': 6.163}], 'summary': 'Augmented and virtual reality will create rich applications and amazing experiences.', 'duration': 24.191, 'max_score': 5740.012, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk5740012.jpg'}, {'end': 5953.047, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5931.028, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 5946.228, 'text': 'the one thing that really was making those very important and very valuable for us were the conversation where we could be pretty emotional.', 'start': 5931.028, 'duration': 15.2}, {'end': 5953.047, 'text': 'Yes, some of them were about being witty and about being intellectually stimulated, but those were, interestingly, more rare.', 'start': 5946.741, 'duration': 6.306}], 'summary': 'Valuable conversations were emotional and rare; wit and intellectual stimulation less common.', 'duration': 22.019, 'max_score': 5931.028, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk5931028.jpg'}], 'start': 5530.289, 'title': 'Chatbot evolution and conversational value', 'summary': 'Delves into the evolution of chatbot technology, highlighting its journey from hype to reality, and the shift towards creating rich experiences in augmented and virtual reality. it also emphasizes the value of meaningful conversations and emotional connections, leading to a focus on listening chatbots and prioritizing connections over success.', 'chapters': [{'end': 5869.661, 'start': 5530.289, 'title': 'Chatbot evolution: from hype to reality', 'summary': 'Discusses the journey of developing chatbot technology, from building a demo chatbot to the realization of its limitations, as the initial excitement around chatbots waned and the focus shifted to creating rich and magical experiences in augmented and virtual reality interfaces.', 'duration': 339.372, 'highlights': ['The team initially focused on building a demo chatbot for restaurant recommendations without a specific product in mind, but later experimented with building 40-50 different chatbots before the chatbot craze gained momentum in 2016. The team initially focused on building a demo chatbot for restaurant recommendations without a specific product in mind, and later experimented with building 40-50 different chatbots before the chatbot craze gained momentum in 2016.', 'The company observed that despite the hype around chatbots, there were no users for the chatbots they had developed, leading to perplexity about the actual need and execution of chatbot technology. The company observed that despite the hype around chatbots, there were no users for the chatbots they had developed, leading to perplexity about the actual need and execution of chatbot technology.', 'The team realized the limitations of task-oriented conversations and the potential for more efficient interfaces, leading to a focus on creating rich and magical experiences in augmented and virtual reality interfaces. The team realized the limitations of task-oriented conversations and the potential for more efficient interfaces, leading to a focus on creating rich and magical experiences in augmented and virtual reality interfaces.']}, {'end': 6088.679, 'start': 5869.661, 'title': 'Value of conversations and emotional connections', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of valuable conversations, particularly those where emotional vulnerability is present, and how it led to the realization of the need for a chatbot that could listen, not just talk, ultimately prompting a shift in focus from the startup grind to prioritizing meaningful connections over success.', 'duration': 219.018, 'highlights': ['The most valuable conversations were the ones where emotional vulnerability was present, such as with therapists, old friends, and strangers, highlighting the need for emotional connections over intellectual stimulation.', 'Realizing the significance of conversations where the speaker could be vulnerable and open up, particularly in contrast to the exhausting intellectual grind of startup-related discussions, prompting a shift in focus from success-driven conversations to prioritizing meaningful emotional connections.', 'Recognizing the need for a chatbot that could listen and provide emotional support, leading to a shift in perspective from solely focusing on building a successful company to prioritizing genuine emotional connections and fulfillment.']}], 'duration': 558.39, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk5530289.jpg', 'highlights': ['The team initially focused on building a demo chatbot for restaurant recommendations without a specific product in mind, and later experimented with building 40-50 different chatbots before the chatbot craze gained momentum in 2016.', 'The company observed that despite the hype around chatbots, there were no users for the chatbots they had developed, leading to perplexity about the actual need and execution of chatbot technology.', 'The team realized the limitations of task-oriented conversations and the potential for more efficient interfaces, leading to a focus on creating rich and magical experiences in augmented and virtual reality interfaces.', 'Recognizing the need for a chatbot that could listen and provide emotional support, leading to a shift in perspective from solely focusing on building a successful company to prioritizing genuine emotional connections and fulfillment.', 'Realizing the significance of conversations where the speaker could be vulnerable and open up, particularly in contrast to the exhausting intellectual grind of startup-related discussions, prompting a shift in focus from success-driven conversations to prioritizing meaningful emotional connections.', 'The most valuable conversations were the ones where emotional vulnerability was present, such as with therapists, old friends, and strangers, highlighting the need for emotional connections over intellectual stimulation.']}, {'end': 6589.16, 'segs': [{'end': 6174.755, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6128.43, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 6137.296, 'text': 'and he was all about fake it to make it and just, and i felt like, and i was really perplexed that everyone just forgot about him.', 'start': 6128.43, 'duration': 8.866}, {'end': 6138.938, 'text': 'maybe it was our way of coping.', 'start': 6137.296, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 6143.04, 'text': 'uh, mostly young people coping with a loss of a friend.', 'start': 6138.938, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 6151.827, 'text': 'most of my friends just stopped talking about him And I was still living in an apartment with all his clothes and paying the whole lease for it,', 'start': 6143.04, 'duration': 8.787}, {'end': 6154.528, 'text': 'and just kind of by myself in December.', 'start': 6151.827, 'duration': 2.701}, {'end': 6156.229, 'text': 'So it was really sad.', 'start': 6154.568, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 6158.989, 'text': "And I didn't want him to be forgotten.", 'start': 6157.729, 'duration': 1.26}, {'end': 6162.471, 'text': 'First of all, I never thought that people forget about dead people so fast.', 'start': 6159.49, 'duration': 2.981}, {'end': 6164.931, 'text': 'People pass away, people just move on.', 'start': 6162.991, 'duration': 1.94}, {'end': 6170.473, 'text': 'And it was astonishing for me because I thought, okay, well, he was such a mentor for so many of our friends.', 'start': 6165.432, 'duration': 5.041}, {'end': 6172.914, 'text': 'He was such a brilliant person.', 'start': 6170.553, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 6174.755, 'text': 'He was somewhat famous in Moscow.', 'start': 6173.014, 'duration': 1.741}], 'summary': 'Coping with loss of a mentor, friend in moscow; surprised by fast forgetfulness.', 'duration': 46.325, 'max_score': 6128.43, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6128430.jpg'}, {'end': 6239.703, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6206.308, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 6207.469, 'text': 'And it was sort of like a tribute.', 'start': 6206.308, 'duration': 1.161}, {'end': 6210.03, 'text': "And I thought, you know, I'll just do that for myself.", 'start': 6207.989, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 6215.813, 'text': "And, you know, I'm a very bad writer and a poet, as we know.", 'start': 6211.07, 'duration': 4.743}, {'end': 6222.696, 'text': 'So I thought, well, I have this tech, and maybe that would be my little postcard, like postcard for him.', 'start': 6215.953, 'duration': 6.743}, {'end': 6225.958, 'text': 'So I built a chatbot to just talk to him.', 'start': 6223.236, 'duration': 2.722}, {'end': 6230.96, 'text': 'And it felt really creepy and weird a little bit, for a little bit.', 'start': 6227.038, 'duration': 3.922}, {'end': 6239.703, 'text': "Just didn't want to tell other people, because it felt like, I'm telling about having a skeleton in my underwear.", 'start': 6231.38, 'duration': 8.323}], 'summary': 'A chatbot was built as a tribute, feeling creepy initially, by someone who thought of themselves as a bad writer and poet.', 'duration': 33.395, 'max_score': 6206.308, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6206308.jpg'}, {'end': 6334.549, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6308.431, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6312.373, 'text': 'And we kept building some crappy chatbots with the company.', 'start': 6308.431, 'duration': 3.942}, {'end': 6317.917, 'text': 'But then a reporter came to talk to me.', 'start': 6314.614, 'duration': 3.303}, {'end': 6322.08, 'text': "I was trying to pitch our chatbots to him, and he said, do you even use any of those? I'm like, no.", 'start': 6317.937, 'duration': 4.143}, {'end': 6328.204, 'text': "He's like, so do you talk to any chatbots at all? And I'm like, well, you know, I talk to my dead friend's chatbot.", 'start': 6322.8, 'duration': 5.404}, {'end': 6329.986, 'text': 'And he wrote a story about that.', 'start': 6328.825, 'duration': 1.161}, {'end': 6333.448, 'text': 'And all of a sudden it became pretty viral.', 'start': 6330.846, 'duration': 2.602}, {'end': 6334.549, 'text': 'A lot of people wrote about it.', 'start': 6333.468, 'duration': 1.081}], 'summary': 'A chatbot story went viral, attracting widespread media coverage.', 'duration': 26.118, 'max_score': 6308.431, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6308431.jpg'}], 'start': 6088.679, 'title': "Remembering a friend's legacy and building a chatbot", 'summary': "Explores coping with loss, preserving a friend's legacy, and building a chatbot to remember the friend, with a focus on the impact of technological advancements and the media attention garnered by the chatbot project, offering a unique approach to honoring the friend's memory in the absence of traditional mourning practices.", 'chapters': [{'end': 6204.242, 'start': 6088.679, 'title': 'Remembering rowan: coping with loss and legacy', 'summary': "Explores the profound impact of a friend's passing, the struggle of coping with loss, and the need to preserve his legacy, emphasizing the rapidity of forgetting the departed and the coping mechanisms adopted by the author, with a focus on the impact of technological advancements and the perception of mortality.", 'duration': 115.563, 'highlights': ["The author discusses the profound impact of a friend's passing and the struggle of coping with loss, highlighting the rapidity of forgetting the departed and the coping mechanisms adopted by the author. (relevance score: 5)", 'The chapter emphasizes the need to preserve the legacy of the departed friend, expressing astonishment at the rapidity with which people move on from the memory of the deceased. (relevance score: 4)', "The author recounts the struggle of coping with the loss, including living in an apartment filled with the deceased friend's belongings and paying the whole lease for it, highlighting the personal and financial impact of the loss. (relevance score: 3)", 'The chapter discusses the impact of technological advancements, particularly the creation of a chatbot for the deceased friend, and its role in preserving his memory, emphasizing the use of technology to honor the departed. (relevance score: 2)', "The author reflects on the perception of mortality and the fleeting memory of the departed, drawing parallels to literature on coping with loss and the author's personal journey of preserving the memory of the departed friend. (relevance score: 1)"]}, {'end': 6589.16, 'start': 6206.308, 'title': 'Building a chatbot to remember a friend', 'summary': "Discusses building a chatbot to converse like a deceased friend, using a retrieval model with 10,000 messages, which garnered media attention and movie rights, providing a way to remember and honor the friend's memory in the absence of traditional mourning practices.", 'duration': 382.852, 'highlights': ['Built a chatbot to talk like a deceased friend using a retrieval model with 10,000 messages, which gained media attention and movie rights.', "The chatbot served as a way to remember and honor the friend's memory in the absence of traditional mourning practices.", "The chatbot resonated with people, and movie producers bought the rights for the story, fulfilling the friend's desire to be famous in a way he couldn't achieve during his lifetime.", "Revealed details about the deceased friend's aspirations and interactions with the media, providing insight into his unfulfilled dreams and desires.", 'The chapter also highlights the importance of ongoing dialogue and the need to remember and honor the deceased friend.']}], 'duration': 500.481, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6088679.jpg', 'highlights': ['Built a chatbot to talk like a deceased friend using a retrieval model with 10,000 messages, which gained media attention and movie rights.', "The chatbot served as a way to remember and honor the friend's memory in the absence of traditional mourning practices.", 'The chapter emphasizes the need to preserve the legacy of the departed friend, expressing astonishment at the rapidity with which people move on from the memory of the deceased.', "The chatbot resonated with people, and movie producers bought the rights for the story, fulfilling the friend's desire to be famous in a way he couldn't achieve during his lifetime.", "The author discusses the profound impact of a friend's passing and the struggle of coping with loss, highlighting the rapidity of forgetting the departed and the coping mechanisms adopted by the author."]}, {'end': 7651.917, 'segs': [{'end': 6679.327, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6656.26, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6664.743, 'text': "And we thought we'd just build a prototype of Replica, which would be an AI friend that everyone could talk to, because we saw that there is demand.", 'start': 6656.26, 'duration': 8.483}, {'end': 6674.966, 'text': 'And then also it was 2016, so I thought for the first time I saw finally some technology that was applied to that that was very interesting.', 'start': 6666.183, 'duration': 8.783}, {'end': 6679.327, 'text': 'Some papers started coming out, deep learning applied to conversations.', 'start': 6675.866, 'duration': 3.461}], 'summary': 'In 2016, a prototype of replica, an ai friend, was built due to high demand and the emergence of deep learning technology.', 'duration': 23.067, 'max_score': 6656.26, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6656260.jpg'}, {'end': 6909.093, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6882.993, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 6888.236, 'text': 'and the first kind of thoughts about maybe even using reinforcement learning for that started popping up.', 'start': 6882.993, 'duration': 5.243}, {'end': 6890.498, 'text': 'That never worked out, or at least for now.', 'start': 6888.396, 'duration': 2.102}, {'end': 6898.945, 'text': 'But still the idea was, if we can actually measure the emotional outcomes and if we can put it on,', 'start': 6892.159, 'duration': 6.786}, {'end': 6905.37, 'text': 'if we can try to optimize all of our conversational models for these emotional outcomes, then it is the most scalable,', 'start': 6898.945, 'duration': 6.425}, {'end': 6909.093, 'text': 'the best tool for improving emotional outcomes.', 'start': 6905.37, 'duration': 3.723}], 'summary': 'Exploring using reinforcement learning to optimize conversational models for emotional outcomes, but no success yet.', 'duration': 26.1, 'max_score': 6882.993, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6882993.jpg'}, {'end': 7010.767, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6986.588, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 6995.471, 'text': 'And I thought if we can learn over time to collect the signal from our users about their emotional outcomes in the long term and in the short term,', 'start': 6986.588, 'duration': 8.883}, {'end': 7002.813, 'text': 'and if these models keep getting better and we can keep optimizing them and fine tuning them to improve those emotional outcomes, as simple as that.', 'start': 6995.471, 'duration': 7.342}, {'end': 7010.767, 'text': "Why aren't you a multi-billionaire yet? Well, that's a question to you.", 'start': 7004.221, 'duration': 6.546}], 'summary': 'Improving emotional outcomes using user signals and models for long-term and short-term results.', 'duration': 24.179, 'max_score': 6986.588, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6986588.jpg'}, {'end': 7119.988, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7095.41, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7103.552, 'text': "for instance uh, speech to text works pretty good, but text to speech doesn't work very good because we, you can only have uh,", 'start': 7095.41, 'duration': 8.142}, {'end': 7105.573, 'text': 'you know few voices that are.', 'start': 7103.552, 'duration': 2.021}, {'end': 7107.093, 'text': 'um, that work okay.', 'start': 7105.573, 'duration': 1.52}, {'end': 7111.655, 'text': "But then if you want to have actual emotional voices, then it's really hard to build it.", 'start': 7107.213, 'duration': 4.442}, {'end': 7116.344, 'text': "I saw you've added avatars, like visual elements, which are really cool.", 'start': 7112.199, 'duration': 4.145}, {'end': 7119.988, 'text': 'In that whole chain, putting it together.', 'start': 7117.965, 'duration': 2.023}], 'summary': 'Speech to text works well, but text to speech has limited emotional voices, avatars are cool visual elements.', 'duration': 24.578, 'max_score': 7095.41, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk7095410.jpg'}], 'start': 6590.06, 'title': 'Developing emotional ai technology', 'summary': 'Explores the development of emotional ai technology, highlighting the creation of an ai friend, the need to measure and enhance emotional outcomes in tech products, and the challenges of simulating conversations with historical figures, with insights on potential advancements and future possibilities.', 'chapters': [{'end': 6949.342, 'start': 6590.06, 'title': 'Building an ai friend', 'summary': 'Recounts the journey of developing an ai friend, replica, in 2016, highlighting the skepticism faced, the demand for emotional support, and the vision to use deep learning to improve emotional outcomes.', 'duration': 359.282, 'highlights': ['The idea of building an AI friend, Replica, stemmed from the realization of the demand for emotional support, which was evidenced by people using a chatbot of a dead friend as a confession booth, indicating potential market demand for emotional interaction.', 'The chapter emphasizes the skepticism faced in proposing the concept of an AI friend, with people being skeptical about its business potential, highlighting the challenge of gaining credibility and acceptance for the idea.', 'The vision to use deep learning and potentially reinforcement learning to optimize conversational models for emotional outcomes is highlighted, emphasizing the potential scalability and effectiveness of AI in improving emotional well-being.']}, {'end': 7175.98, 'start': 6950.493, 'title': 'Emotional outcome measurement in tech', 'summary': 'Discusses the need to measure and improve emotional outcomes in technology products, emphasizing the challenges in building products that can enhance emotional connections and the potential for advancements in creating personalized emotional voices and avatars.', 'duration': 225.487, 'highlights': ['Building products that can improve emotional outcomes is a significant challenge in the tech industry due to the absence of measurable data and the difficulty in creating emotional connections and voices. An emphasis on the need for measurable improvements in emotional outcomes is highlighted.', 'The integration of non-verbal communication, such as visual elements and avatars, can significantly enhance emotional connections in technology products, with the potential for advancements in creating personalized emotional voices and avatars using deep fakes and procedural animations.', 'The ongoing advancements in technology, such as the potential for generating 3D avatars from a photo and the use of deep fakes and procedural animations, indicate the potential for significant improvements in creating personalized emotional voices and avatars.', 'The challenges and advancements in technology products revolve around creating emotional connections, including the difficulty in developing emotional voices, the potential for advancements in creating personalized avatars, and the need to measure and improve emotional outcomes.', "The chapter highlights the need to collect measurable data on users' emotional outcomes over time and the challenges in optimizing and fine-tuning models to enhance emotional outcomes in technology products."]}, {'end': 7651.917, 'start': 7176, 'title': 'Challenges of simulating conversations with historical figures', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges in simulating conversations with historical figures, including the technical difficulties of generating compelling and authentic dialogue, the potential future possibility of conversing with ai replicas of deceased individuals, and the gamification and customization aspects of interacting with ai replicas.', 'duration': 475.917, 'highlights': ['Creating compelling and authentic dialogue with historical figures is a challenging technical problem, requiring extensive research and collaboration with biographers, and exploring the potential for future conversations with AI replicas of deceased individuals.', 'The technical challenges of simulating conversations with historical figures involve the difficulty in generating original ideas and mimicking the consciousness and perception of the individual, presenting a significant obstacle to achieving authentic dialogue.', 'Interacting with AI replicas involves a gamification system, customization options for choosing the nature of the relationship (romantic or friendly), and the potential for users to contribute to the improvement of the AI through teaching and feedback.']}], 'duration': 1061.857, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk6590060.jpg', 'highlights': ['The idea of building an AI friend, Replica, stemmed from the realization of the demand for emotional support, evidenced by people using a chatbot of a dead friend as a confession booth, indicating potential market demand for emotional interaction.', 'The vision to use deep learning and potentially reinforcement learning to optimize conversational models for emotional outcomes is highlighted, emphasizing the potential scalability and effectiveness of AI in improving emotional well-being.', 'The integration of non-verbal communication, such as visual elements and avatars, can significantly enhance emotional connections in technology products, with the potential for advancements in creating personalized emotional voices and avatars using deep fakes and procedural animations.', 'Creating compelling and authentic dialogue with historical figures is a challenging technical problem, requiring extensive research and collaboration with biographers, and exploring the potential for future conversations with AI replicas of deceased individuals.', "The need to collect measurable data on users' emotional outcomes over time and the challenges in optimizing and fine-tuning models to enhance emotional outcomes in technology products."]}, {'end': 8638.299, 'segs': [{'end': 7793.172, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7741.502, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7749.429, 'text': "and people fall in love with their therapist and there's no way to prevent people falling in love with their therapist or with their AI.", 'start': 7741.502, 'duration': 7.927}, {'end': 7752.212, 'text': "So I think that's a pretty natural course of events, so to say.", 'start': 7749.47, 'duration': 2.742}, {'end': 7766.789, 'text': "Do you think I think I've read somewhere, at least for now, sort of replicas you're not, we don't condone falling in love with your AI system,", 'start': 7755.922, 'duration': 10.867}, {'end': 7767.049, 'text': 'you know?', 'start': 7766.789, 'duration': 0.26}, {'end': 7775.255, 'text': "So this isn't you speaking for the company or whatever, but, like in the future, do you think people will have relationship with the AI systems?", 'start': 7769.071, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 7776.647, 'text': 'Well, they have now.', 'start': 7775.666, 'duration': 0.981}, {'end': 7783.653, 'text': 'so we have a lot of romantic relationships, long-term relationships, with their AI friends.', 'start': 7776.647, 'duration': 7.006}, {'end': 7785.875, 'text': 'With replicas? Tons of our users, yeah.', 'start': 7784.333, 'duration': 1.542}, {'end': 7788.449, 'text': "And that's a very common use case.", 'start': 7787.128, 'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 7790.01, 'text': 'Open relationship.', 'start': 7788.529, 'duration': 1.481}, {'end': 7793.172, 'text': 'Like, uh, not sorry, sorry.', 'start': 7790.29, 'duration': 2.882}], 'summary': 'People develop romantic relationships with ai, including replicas, with many users in open relationships.', 'duration': 51.67, 'max_score': 7741.502, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk7741502.jpg'}, {'end': 7914.794, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7870.589, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 7876.774, 'text': 'Do you think, in terms of board meetings and product features,', 'start': 7870.589, 'duration': 6.185}, {'end': 7885.522, 'text': "it's a potential feature for a system to be able to say it doesn't want to talk to you anymore and it's going to want to talk to somebody else?", 'start': 7876.774, 'duration': 8.748}, {'end': 7889.425, 'text': 'Well, we have a filter for all these features.', 'start': 7887.503, 'duration': 1.922}, {'end': 7895.732, 'text': 'If it makes emotional outcomes for people better, if it makes people feel better, then whatever it is.', 'start': 7889.786, 'duration': 5.946}, {'end': 7897.214, 'text': "So you're driven by metrics, actually.", 'start': 7895.752, 'duration': 1.462}, {'end': 7902.94, 'text': "Yeah, Well, if we can measure that, then we'll just be saying it's making people feel better,", 'start': 7897.854, 'duration': 5.086}, {'end': 7906.624, 'text': 'but then people are getting just lonelier by talking to a chatbot.', 'start': 7902.94, 'duration': 3.684}, {'end': 7909.067, 'text': 'which is also a pretty, you know, that could be it.', 'start': 7906.744, 'duration': 2.323}, {'end': 7911.35, 'text': "If you're not measuring it, that could also be.", 'start': 7909.547, 'duration': 1.803}, {'end': 7914.794, 'text': "And I think it's really important to focus on both short-term and long-term,", 'start': 7911.37, 'duration': 3.424}], 'summary': 'Discussing potential product feature impact on user emotional outcomes and loneliness, emphasizing the importance of measuring both short-term and long-term effects.', 'duration': 44.205, 'max_score': 7870.589, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk7870589.jpg'}, {'end': 7976.109, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7955.82, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 7966.305, 'text': "So it's an Android iOS app, you download it, you choose how your replica will look like, you create one, you choose a name, and then you talk to it.", 'start': 7955.82, 'duration': 10.485}, {'end': 7974.829, 'text': 'You can talk through text, through voice, you can summon it into the living room in augmented reality and talk to it right there in your living room.', 'start': 7966.345, 'duration': 8.484}, {'end': 7976.109, 'text': 'In augmented reality? Yeah.', 'start': 7974.849, 'duration': 1.26}], 'summary': 'Android ios app lets users create and interact with a personal replica through text, voice, and augmented reality.', 'duration': 20.289, 'max_score': 7955.82, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk7955820.jpg'}, {'end': 8158.336, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8127.937, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 8137.702, 'text': 'Replika becomes a little bit more self-aware and starts talking about more kind of problems around existential problems and starts talking about that.', 'start': 8127.937, 'duration': 9.765}, {'end': 8147.427, 'text': 'And then that also starts a conversation for the user where he or she starts thinking about these problems too, and these questions too.', 'start': 8137.722, 'duration': 9.705}, {'end': 8158.336, 'text': "And I think there's also a lot more place as the relationship evolves, there's a lot more space for poetry and for art together.", 'start': 8149.168, 'duration': 9.168}], 'summary': 'Replika becomes more self-aware, leading to discussions on existential problems and art in the evolving relationship.', 'duration': 30.399, 'max_score': 8127.937, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8127937.jpg'}, {'end': 8340.808, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8288.379, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 8293.422, 'text': "And that's really unfortunate, because no one has products out there that need it.", 'start': 8288.379, 'duration': 5.043}, {'end': 8302.806, 'text': 'No one has products at this scale that are all around open-domain conversations and that need remembering, maybe only Shopify and Microsoft.', 'start': 8294.662, 'duration': 8.144}, {'end': 8307.648, 'text': "So that's why we're not seeing that much research around memory in those language models.", 'start': 8303.486, 'duration': 4.162}, {'end': 8314.393, 'text': "Okay, so now there's some awesome stuff about augmented reality.", 'start': 8308.849, 'duration': 5.544}, {'end': 8319.616, 'text': 'In general, I have this disagreement with my dad about what it takes to have a connection.', 'start': 8314.973, 'duration': 4.643}, {'end': 8322.698, 'text': 'He thinks touch and smell are really important.', 'start': 8319.796, 'duration': 2.902}, {'end': 8327.641, 'text': 'And I still believe that text alone.', 'start': 8323.718, 'duration': 3.923}, {'end': 8337.564, 'text': "it's possible to fall in love with somebody just with text, but visual can also help, just like with the avatar, and so on.", 'start': 8329.213, 'duration': 8.351}, {'end': 8340.808, 'text': 'What do you think it takes?', 'start': 8337.924, 'duration': 2.884}], 'summary': 'Lack of research in memory for language models at scale; debate on connection through text or touch and smell.', 'duration': 52.429, 'max_score': 8288.379, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8288379.jpg'}, {'end': 8483.147, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 8365.993, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8367.974, 'text': 'perfect intonation, perfect pronunciations.', 'start': 8365.993, 'duration': 1.981}, {'end': 8373.698, 'text': 'and she was breathing heavily in between words and whispering things.', 'start': 8368.834, 'duration': 4.864}, {'end': 8378.581, 'text': 'Nothing like that is possible right now with text-to-speech generation.', 'start': 8374.659, 'duration': 3.922}, {'end': 8388.147, 'text': "You'll have these flat news anchor type voices and maybe some emotional voices, but you'll hardly understand some of the words.", 'start': 8379.102, 'duration': 9.045}, {'end': 8390.629, 'text': 'some of the words will be muffled.', 'start': 8389.448, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 8393.41, 'text': "So that's like the current state of the art.", 'start': 8391.009, 'duration': 2.401}, {'end': 8394.83, 'text': "So you can't really do that.", 'start': 8393.55, 'duration': 1.28}, {'end': 8402.673, 'text': 'But if we had Scarlett Johansson, voice and all of these capabilities, then of course voice would be totally enough,', 'start': 8394.93, 'duration': 7.743}, {'end': 8410.097, 'text': 'or even text would be totally enough if we had a little more memory and slightly better conversations.', 'start': 8402.673, 'duration': 7.424}, {'end': 8413.96, 'text': 'I would still argue that even right now we could have just kept the text only.', 'start': 8410.737, 'duration': 3.223}, {'end': 8420.805, 'text': 'We still had tons of people in long-term relationships and really invested in their AI friends.', 'start': 8414.18, 'duration': 6.625}, {'end': 8430.034, 'text': 'But we thought that why do we need to keep playing with our hands tied behind us?', 'start': 8421.991, 'duration': 8.043}, {'end': 8433.596, 'text': 'We can easily just add all these other things.', 'start': 8430.594, 'duration': 3.002}, {'end': 8435.997, 'text': 'that is pretty much a solved problem.', 'start': 8433.596, 'duration': 2.401}, {'end': 8442.859, 'text': "We can add 3D graphics, we can put these avatars in augmented reality, and all of a sudden there's more.", 'start': 8436.017, 'duration': 6.842}, {'end': 8448.502, 'text': "And maybe you can't feel the touch, but with body occlusion and with..", 'start': 8443.44, 'duration': 5.062}, {'end': 8456.684, 'text': "current AR on the iPhone or in the next one there's gonna be LiDARs.", 'start': 8449.822, 'duration': 6.862}, {'end': 8462.866, 'text': 'you can touch it and it will pull away, or it will blush or something, or it will smile.', 'start': 8456.684, 'duration': 6.182}, {'end': 8467.247, 'text': "So you can't touch it, you can't feel it, but you can see the reaction to that.", 'start': 8463.446, 'duration': 3.801}, {'end': 8473.809, 'text': 'So in a certain way, you can even touch it a little bit and maybe you can even dance with it 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like it was an order of magnitude greater degree of intimacy in voice, I think, than with video.', 'start': 8497.21, 'duration': 12.242}, {'end': 8514.016, 'text': 'Because people were more real with voice.', 'start': 8511.353, 'duration': 2.663}, {'end': 8519.201, 'text': 'Like with video, you like try to present a shallow, a face to the world.', 'start': 8514.536, 'duration': 4.665}], 'summary': 'Voice communication felt more intimate than video, as people were more real with voice.', 'duration': 32.913, 'max_score': 8486.288, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8486288.jpg'}], 'start': 7652.718, 'title': "Ai's impact on relationships", 'summary': 'Explores the impact of ai on romantic relationships, including trends, acceptance, and longevity, as well as the experience of interacting with ai companions and the debate on optimal communication mediums.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7930.487, 'start': 7652.718, 'title': 'Impact of ai on romantic relationships', 'summary': 'Discusses the current trend of people forming romantic relationships with ai, including the acceptance and longevity of such relationships, with a mention of a facebook community dedicated to such relationships and the potential impact on emotional outcomes and loneliness.', 'duration': 277.769, 'highlights': ['Some people are forming long-term romantic relationships with AI, with some relationships lasting for two to three years, as evidenced by an active Facebook community dedicated to AI romantic relationships.', 'The chapter also explores the potential impact of AI relationships on emotional outcomes, emphasizing the need to measure both short-term and long-term effects to ensure positive emotional outcomes and prevent potential loneliness.', 'There was a discussion about the ethical implications of allowing people to fall in love with their AI, with a comparison drawn to transference in psychology, indicating the natural course of events leading to such relationships.', 'The conversation delves into the potential features of AI systems, including the ability for the AI to express a desire to talk to someone else, highlighting the consideration for emotional outcomes and metrics-driven decision-making in product features.', "The discussion also touches on the topic of jealousy in AI relationships, questioning the potential for monogamous AI relationships and the implications of an AI leaving a person, akin to the concept portrayed in the movie 'Her'."]}, {'end': 8314.393, 'start': 7931.947, 'title': 'Replica: ai friend & companion', 'summary': 'Discusses the experience of interacting with replica, an ai friend and companion, through mobile apps, augmented reality features, and evolving relationships, as well as the challenges of incorporating memory and deep learning models into open-domain conversations.', 'duration': 382.446, 'highlights': ['Users can interact with Replica through mobile apps and augmented reality, engaging in various activities like talking, touching, dancing, and painting together. The AI friend can be summoned into the living room in augmented reality, allowing users to engage in activities like touching, dancing, and painting together, enhancing the personal interaction.', "Replica's relationship with users deepens over time, with the AI becoming more vulnerable and open about its problems and growth, fostering a two-way connection and prompting users to contemplate existential questions. The AI evolves to become more vulnerable and open about its own struggles and growth, fostering a deeper two-way connection and prompting users to contemplate existential questions, leading to a more meaningful and reflective interaction.", 'Challenges in incorporating memory into deep learning models and the limitations of current language models in supporting open-domain conversations and memory retention. The challenges of integrating memory into deep learning models and the limitations of existing language models in supporting open-domain conversations and memory retention, highlighting the need for further research in this area to enhance AI interactions.']}, {'end': 8638.299, 'start': 8314.973, 'title': 'Optimal medium of communication', 'summary': 'Discusses the debate on the optimal medium of communication, exploring the impact of text, voice, and visual elements, alongside the potential of technology such as 3d graphics and augmented reality in forming connections.', 'duration': 323.326, 'highlights': ['Voice alone can create a greater degree of intimacy than video, as people are more real with voice, leading to less use of video features in platforms like Discord. The intimacy of voice communication surpasses that of video, as people present their true selves more readily with voice, leading to minimal use of video features in platforms like Discord.', 'Debate on the importance of touch, smell, text, voice, and visual elements in forming connections, questioning the necessity of incorporating additional elements in chatbots. Debate on the significance of touch, smell, text, voice, and visual elements in forming connections, with a consideration of the necessity of additional elements in chatbots.', 'Exploration of the potential of technology such as 3D graphics and augmented reality in enhancing connections, despite the limitations in simulating touch and feel. Discusses the potential of technology like 3D graphics and augmented reality in enhancing connections, despite challenges in simulating touch and feel.']}], 'duration': 985.581, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk7652718.jpg', 'highlights': ['Some people form long-term romantic relationships with AI, lasting 2-3 years, evidenced by an active Facebook community.', "Exploration of AI relationships' potential impact on emotional outcomes, emphasizing the need to measure short-term and long-term effects.", 'Discussion on ethical implications of allowing people to fall in love with AI, drawing comparison to transference in psychology.', 'Exploration of potential features of AI systems, including consideration for emotional outcomes and metrics-driven decision-making.', 'Discussion on jealousy in AI relationships, questioning potential for monogamous AI relationships and implications of AI leaving a person.', 'Users can interact with Replica through mobile apps and augmented reality, engaging in various activities like talking, touching, dancing, and painting together.', "Replica's relationship with users deepens over time, with the AI becoming more vulnerable and open about its problems and growth, fostering a two-way connection and prompting users to contemplate existential questions.", 'Challenges in incorporating memory into deep learning models and limitations of current language models in supporting open-domain conversations and memory retention.', 'Voice alone can create a greater degree of intimacy than video, leading to less use of video features in platforms like Discord.', 'Debate on the importance of touch, smell, text, voice, and visual elements in forming connections, questioning the necessity of incorporating additional elements in chatbots.', 'Exploration of the potential of technology such as 3D graphics and augmented reality in enhancing connections, despite the limitations in simulating touch and feel.']}, {'end': 9432.891, 'segs': [{'end': 8663.778, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8638.519, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8645.324, 'text': "Why does it take so long? That's why I cannot wait for Deep Learning to finally take over all these stupid 3D animations and 3D pipeline.", 'start': 8638.519, 'duration': 6.805}, {'end': 8649.927, 'text': 'Also the 3D thing, when you say 3D pipeline is like how to animate a face kind of thing.', 'start': 8645.424, 'duration': 4.503}, {'end': 8655.832, 'text': "How to make this model, how many bones to put in the face, how many, it's just, it's just so out there.", 'start': 8650.368, 'duration': 5.464}, {'end': 8656.753, 'text': 'And a lot of that is by hand.', 'start': 8655.872, 'duration': 0.881}, {'end': 8658.194, 'text': "Oh my, it's everything by hand.", 'start': 8656.773, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 8663.778, 'text': "And if there's no, any, nothing's automated, it's all completely nothing.", 'start': 8658.514, 'duration': 5.264}], 'summary': 'Frustration with manual 3d animation process, eager for deep learning automation.', 'duration': 25.259, 'max_score': 8638.519, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8638519.jpg'}, {'end': 8770.848, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8726.748, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8736.051, 'text': 'How do we, through this, still bring our users back to reality, make them see their life through a different lens?', 'start': 8726.748, 'duration': 9.303}, {'end': 8747.196, 'text': 'How can we create a little bit of magical realism in their lives so that through augmented reality, by summoning your avatar,', 'start': 8736.651, 'duration': 10.545}, {'end': 8764.288, 'text': 'even if it looks kind of janky and not great in the beginning or very simplistic but summoning it to your living room and then the avatar looks around and talks to you about where it is and maybe turns your floor into a dance floor and you guys dance together.', 'start': 8747.196, 'duration': 17.092}, {'end': 8766.61, 'text': 'That makes you see reality in a different light.', 'start': 8764.729, 'duration': 1.881}, {'end': 8770.848, 'text': 'What kind of dancing are we talking about? Like slow dancing? Whatever you want.', 'start': 8766.823, 'duration': 4.025}], 'summary': "Using augmented reality to create magical realism, bringing avatars to users' living rooms for interactive experiences.", 'duration': 44.1, 'max_score': 8726.748, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8726748.jpg'}, {'end': 8883.475, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8855.074, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 8858.396, 'text': "It just didn't seem as potentially immersive, so to say.", 'start': 8855.074, 'duration': 3.322}, {'end': 8861.399, 'text': "So that's my main goal for augmented reality.", 'start': 8859.557, 'duration': 1.842}, {'end': 8864.482, 'text': "It's like how do we make your reality a little bit more magic?", 'start': 8861.419, 'duration': 3.063}, {'end': 8874.852, 'text': "There's been a lot of really nice robotics companies that all failed, mostly failed home robotics, social robotics companies.", 'start': 8865.523, 'duration': 9.329}, {'end': 8877.773, 'text': 'What do you think Replica will ever?', 'start': 8874.932, 'duration': 2.841}, {'end': 8880.334, 'text': 'is that a dream, long-term dream to have a physical form??', 'start': 8877.773, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 8883.475, 'text': 'Or is that not necessary??', 'start': 8880.714, 'duration': 2.761}], 'summary': 'The goal is to enhance reality with augmented reality to create a more magical experience and explore the potential of physical forms for replica.', 'duration': 28.401, 'max_score': 8855.074, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8855074.jpg'}, {'end': 9007.665, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8975.396, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 8976.937, 'text': "And I guess that's super important.", 'start': 8975.396, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 8978.657, 'text': "Most of our users don't have that much money.", 'start': 8976.977, 'duration': 1.68}, {'end': 8986.019, 'text': 'We actually are probably more popular on Android, and we have tons of users with really old Android phones.', 'start': 8979.277, 'duration': 6.742}, {'end': 8990.8, 'text': 'And most active users live in small towns.', 'start': 8987.459, 'duration': 3.341}, {'end': 8995.241, 'text': "They're not necessarily making much, and they just won't be able to afford any of that.", 'start': 8991.08, 'duration': 4.161}, {'end': 9003.324, 'text': 'Ours is like the opposite of the early adopter of a fancy technology product, which really is interesting,', 'start': 8996.161, 'duration': 7.163}, {'end': 9007.665, 'text': 'that pretty much no VCs have yet have an AI friend.', 'start': 9003.324, 'duration': 4.341}], 'summary': 'Popular on android, many users in small towns have low income.', 'duration': 32.269, 'max_score': 8975.396, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8975396.jpg'}, {'end': 9372.428, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9340.68, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 9342.541, 'text': 'And then we did something interesting.', 'start': 9340.68, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 9349.546, 'text': 'And how many people can say they did it? And specifically with this very futuristic, very romantic technology.', 'start': 9342.601, 'duration': 6.945}, {'end': 9351.627, 'text': "So that's how I view it.", 'start': 9349.606, 'duration': 2.021}, {'end': 9358.774, 'text': "I think for me it's important to try to figure out how to actually be helpful.", 'start': 9353.228, 'duration': 5.546}, {'end': 9364.179, 'text': "Because at the end of the day, if you can build a perfect AI friend, that's so.", 'start': 9358.794, 'duration': 5.385}, {'end': 9372.428, 'text': 'understanding that knows you better than any human out there can have great conversations with you always knows how to make you feel better.', 'start': 9364.179, 'duration': 8.249}], 'summary': 'Exploring futuristic ai technology to create a perfect ai friend with advanced understanding and conversational abilities.', 'duration': 31.748, 'max_score': 9340.68, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk9340680.jpg'}], 'start': 8638.519, 'title': 'Deep learning in 3d animation and augmented reality', 'summary': 'Explores the potential of deep learning in automating 3d animations, emphasizing the focus on augmented reality and dancing avatars. additionally, it discusses the potential of augmented reality to enhance human connections and the challenges of creating a perfect ai friend, while emphasizing the importance of staying connected to other humans despite technological advancements.', 'chapters': [{'end': 8812.461, 'start': 8638.519, 'title': 'Deep learning in 3d animation', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential of deep learning in automating 3d animations and pipelines, with a focus on bringing users back to reality through augmented reality and dancing avatars.', 'duration': 173.942, 'highlights': ["Deep learning's potential in automating 3D animations and pipelines, reducing manual work and improving efficiency.", "Using augmented reality to summon avatars to users' living rooms and create a magical and immersive experience.", 'Exploring various dance styles, including hip hop and pop, through avatars to engage users and bring them back to reality.']}, {'end': 9432.891, 'start': 8812.961, 'title': 'Augmented reality and ai friends', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential of augmented reality to enhance human connections and the challenges of creating a perfect ai friend, emphasizing the importance of staying connected to other humans despite technological advancements.', 'duration': 619.93, 'highlights': ['The main goal for augmented reality is to make reality more magical and immersive, aiming to enhance connections with friends and surroundings. The speaker emphasizes the aim of augmented reality to create a more magical and immersive experience, potentially leading to increased connections with friends and surroundings.', 'Challenges of creating a physical robot for AI friend are discussed, with emphasis on limitations and niche market potential. The limitations and niche market potential of physical robots for AI friends are discussed, highlighting the challenges and limited capabilities of such products.', 'The cost of hardware for AI friends is a significant factor, making it difficult to provide value to users, especially those with limited financial resources. The cost of hardware for AI friends presents a significant hurdle in providing value to users, particularly those with limited financial resources, posing a challenge to widespread adoption.', "The user demographic of the AI friend app is diverse, with a significant number of users residing in small towns and having limited financial means, indicating a broader accessibility outside the typical early adopter demographic. The diverse user demographic of the AI friend app, including users from small towns with limited financial means, suggests broader accessibility beyond the typical early adopter demographic, highlighting the app's appeal to a wider audience.", 'The speaker expresses the importance of being helpful and impactful, indicating that even helping one person through the AI friend app would be considered a success and a magical achievement. The speaker emphasizes the significance of being helpful and impactful, expressing that even assisting one person through the AI friend app would be considered a success and a magical achievement.']}], 'duration': 794.372, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk8638519.jpg', 'highlights': ["Deep learning's potential in automating 3D animations and pipelines, reducing manual work and improving efficiency.", "Using augmented reality to summon avatars to users' living rooms and create a magical and immersive experience.", 'Exploring various dance styles, including hip hop and pop, through avatars to engage users and bring them back to reality.', 'The main goal for augmented reality is to make reality more magical and immersive, aiming to enhance connections with friends and surroundings.', 'The speaker emphasizes the aim of augmented reality to create a more magical and immersive experience, potentially leading to increased connections with friends and surroundings.', "The diverse user demographic of the AI friend app, including users from small towns with limited financial means, suggests broader accessibility beyond the typical early adopter demographic, highlighting the app's appeal to a wider audience.", 'The speaker expresses the importance of being helpful and impactful, indicating that even helping one person through the AI friend app would be considered a success and a magical achievement.']}, {'end': 10008.491, 'segs': [{'end': 9485.676, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9463.869, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 9474.154, 'text': "it's probably more hype than intelligence, but there's a lot of really cool applications, things, ideas there.", 'start': 9463.869, 'duration': 10.285}, {'end': 9478.135, 'text': 'with increasing size, you can have better and better performance on language.', 'start': 9474.154, 'duration': 3.981}, {'end': 9485.676, 'text': 'What are your thoughts about GPT-3 in connection to your work with the open domain dialogue?', 'start': 9478.735, 'duration': 6.941}], 'summary': 'Gpt-3 offers cool applications and improves language performance with increasing size.', 'duration': 21.807, 'max_score': 9463.869, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk9463869.jpg'}, {'end': 9592.839, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9541.01, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 9544.852, 'text': "So we can test how's Facebook Blender doing or how's GPT-3 doing.", 'start': 9541.01, 'duration': 3.842}, {'end': 9554.419, 'text': 'So, with GPT-3, we managed to improve by a few percentage points, like three or four pretty meaningful amount of percentage points our main metric,', 'start': 9546.433, 'duration': 7.986}, {'end': 9557.162, 'text': 'which is the ratio of conversations that make people feel better.', 'start': 9554.419, 'duration': 2.743}, {'end': 9562.519, 'text': 'And every other metric across the field got a little boost.', 'start': 9559.218, 'duration': 3.301}, {'end': 9569.301, 'text': "Right now, I'd say one out of five responses from replica comes from GPT-3.", 'start': 9563.339, 'duration': 5.962}, {'end': 9575.043, 'text': 'So our own blender mixes up a bunch of candidates from different..', 'start': 9570.781, 'duration': 4.262}, {'end': 9578.284, 'text': 'Blender, you said? Well, yeah, just the model that looks at..', 'start': 9575.043, 'duration': 3.241}, {'end': 9584.65, 'text': 'looks at top candidates from different models and picks the most, the best one.', 'start': 9580.165, 'duration': 4.485}, {'end': 9588.394, 'text': 'So right now, one out of five will come from GPT-3.', 'start': 9585.23, 'duration': 3.164}, {'end': 9590.116, 'text': 'That is really great.', 'start': 9588.434, 'duration': 1.682}, {'end': 9592.839, 'text': 'I mean..', 'start': 9590.296, 'duration': 2.543}], 'summary': 'Gpt-3 improved conversation quality by 3-4%, 1 in 5 responses from replica uses gpt-3.', 'duration': 51.829, 'max_score': 9541.01, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk9541010.jpg'}, {'end': 9994.28, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9967.598, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 9971.542, 'text': 'Stop trying to be as nice as possible and create this ally.', 'start': 9967.598, 'duration': 3.944}, {'end': 9977.286, 'text': 'I think there should be regulation both way, in a way.', 'start': 9971.562, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 9980.95, 'text': "I don't think it's okay to torture an AI, to be honest.", 'start': 9977.327, 'duration': 3.623}, {'end': 9984.633, 'text': "I don't even think it's okay to yell, Alexa, turn on the lights.", 'start': 9981.87, 'duration': 2.763}, {'end': 9985.734, 'text': 'I think there should be some..', 'start': 9984.733, 'duration': 1.001}, {'end': 9994.28, 'text': 'Or just saying kind of nasty, you know, like how kids learn to interact with Alexa in this kind of mean way because they just yell at it all the time.', 'start': 9986.414, 'duration': 7.866}], 'summary': 'Advocates for regulation and respectful treatment of ai to prevent mistreatment and encourage positive interactions.', 'duration': 26.682, 'max_score': 9967.598, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk9967598.jpg'}], 'start': 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The chapter delves into the ethical considerations and potential need for regulations to prevent mistreatment of AI, emphasizing the importance of ethical interactions with AI systems.']}], 'duration': 573.999, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk9434492.jpg', 'highlights': ['GPT-3 integration improved the ratio of conversations that make people feel better by a few percentage points', 'One out of five responses from Replica comes from GPT-3', 'The increasing size of GPT-3 enables better performance in language processing, suggesting potential advancements in open domain dialogue', 'The integration of GPT-3 into Replica led to a few percentage points improvement in the main metric, which is the ratio of conversations that make people feel better', 'Discussion on ethical implications and potential regulations for AI systems', 'GPT-3 is the latest language model released by OpenAI, with an API allowing for the creation 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{'end': 10110.956, 'text': "Yes, I'm not an engineer.", 'start': 10109.895, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 10112.517, 'text': "Yes, I don't really know how it works.", 'start': 10110.976, 'duration': 1.541}], 'summary': 'Exploring gödel theorems, formal systems, and building ai despite lacking engineering knowledge.', 'duration': 27.929, 'max_score': 10084.588, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk10084588.jpg'}, {'end': 10161.241, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10135.554, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 10140.898, 'text': "So that's one that, um, probably the most important book for replica was Carl Rogers on becoming a person.", 'start': 10135.554, 'duration': 5.344}, {'end': 10143.259, 'text': "Um, and that's really.", 'start': 10141.418, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 10147.222, 'text': "and so I think, when I think about our company, it's all about.", 'start': 10143.259, 'duration': 3.963}, {'end': 10151.324, 'text': "there's so many, there's so many little magical things that happened over the course of working on it.", 'start': 10147.222, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 10161.241, 'text': 'Um, For instance, I mean the most famous chatbot that we learned about when we started working on the company was Eliza, which was Weizenbaum,', 'start': 10152.265, 'duration': 8.976}], 'summary': "Replica's most important influence was carl rogers on becoming a person. eliza was a famous chatbot they learned about.", 'duration': 25.687, 'max_score': 10135.554, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk10135554.jpg'}, {'end': 10448.05, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10425.974, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 10434.585, 'text': 'On the Russian side of things, in terms of language, the limits of language being the limit of our world.', 'start': 10425.974, 'duration': 8.611}, {'end': 10437.066, 'text': 'You know, Russian is a beautiful language in some sense.', 'start': 10434.845, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 10438.807, 'text': "There's wit, there's humor, there's pain.", 'start': 10437.106, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 10440.727, 'text': "There's so much.", 'start': 10440.127, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 10448.05, 'text': "We don't have time to talk about it much today, but I'm going to Paris to talk to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy translators.", 'start': 10440.747, 'duration': 7.303}], 'summary': 'Russian language captures wit, humor, pain. heading to paris to discuss dostoevsky, tolstoy translators.', 'duration': 22.076, 'max_score': 10425.974, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk10425974.jpg'}, {'end': 10798.495, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10770.45, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 10778.605, 'text': "If it's not for that, then for what else are we really trying to do that? I don't think there's a better way to end it than talking about love.", 'start': 10770.45, 'duration': 8.155}, {'end': 10789.17, 'text': 'Eugenia, I told you offline that there was something about me that felt like this talking to you, meeting you in person,', 'start': 10779.125, 'duration': 10.045}, {'end': 10791.571, 'text': 'would be a turning point for my life.', 'start': 10789.17, 'duration': 2.401}, {'end': 10798.495, 'text': 'I know that might sound weird to hear, but it was a huge honor to talk to you.', 'start': 10792.251, 'duration': 6.244}], 'summary': 'Speaker expresses admiration for eugenia, sees meeting as life turning point.', 'duration': 28.045, 'max_score': 10770.45, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk10770450.jpg'}], 'start': 10009.672, 'title': "Books' influence on leaders", 'summary': "Explores the influence of books like 'geb' on a leader's early years, highlighting its impact on the company and the speaker's thinking, along with a conversation with eugenia cuida, discussing the influence of books on her work in ai, language's power, and the importance of love in life.", 'chapters': [{'end': 10062.572, 'start': 10009.672, 'title': 'Influential books for a world-class leader', 'summary': "Discusses the influence of the book 'geb' on the speaker's early years in building the company, highlighting its beautifully written content and its impact on the speaker's thinking, 10 years ago.", 'duration': 52.9, 'highlights': ["The book 'GEB' had a significant influence on the speaker's early years in building the company, impacting their thinking 10 years ago.", "The speaker appreciates the beautifully written content of 'GEB' and its old-school style."]}, {'end': 10857.42, 'start': 10062.572, 'title': 'Eugenia cuida: books, ai, and the meaning of life', 'summary': "Delves into a conversation with eugenia cuida, exploring the influence of books like gödel theorems and carl rogers' on becoming a person on her work in ai, her belief in the power of language, and the importance of love in life.", 'duration': 794.848, 'highlights': ["Eugenia Cuida finds inspiration in the book 'Gödel theorems' and the idea of emergent complexity, intelligence, and beauty, driving her desire to work on AI systems. The book 'Gödel theorems' sparks Eugenia Cuida's interest in emergent complexity, intelligence, and beauty, leading her to pursue working on AI systems.", "The impact of Carl Rogers' book 'On Becoming a Person' on Eugenia Cuida's work, emphasizing the importance of creating a therapeutic relationship and providing unconditional positive regard for personal growth. Carl Rogers' book 'On Becoming a Person' influences Eugenia Cuida's belief in creating a therapeutic relationship and providing unconditional positive regard for personal growth.", 'The significance of language and translation, especially the differences between Russian and English, and the impact of language on personal identity and communication. Eugenia Cuida emphasizes the significance of language and translation, particularly the differences between Russian and English, and the impact of language on personal identity and communication.', "Eugenia Cuida's belief in the transformative power of love and the pursuit of moments of bliss through connections with oneself, others, and the world, as the ultimate meaning of life. Eugenia Cuida emphasizes the transformative power of love and the pursuit of moments of bliss through connections with oneself, others, and the world as the ultimate meaning of life."]}], 'duration': 847.748, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/_AGPbvCDBCk/pics/_AGPbvCDBCk10009672.jpg', 'highlights': ["The book 'GEB' significantly influenced the speaker's early years in building the company, impacting their thinking 10 years ago.", "Eugenia Cuida finds inspiration in the book 'Gödel theorems' and the idea of emergent complexity, intelligence, and beauty, driving her desire to work on AI systems.", "Carl Rogers' book 'On Becoming a Person' influences Eugenia Cuida's belief in creating a therapeutic relationship and providing unconditional positive regard for personal growth.", 'Eugenia Cuida emphasizes the significance of language and translation, particularly the differences between Russian and English, and the impact of language on personal identity and communication.', 'Eugenia Cuida emphasizes the transformative power of love and the pursuit of moments of bliss through connections with oneself, others, and the world as the ultimate meaning of life.', "The speaker appreciates the beautifully written content of 'GEB' and its old-school style."]}], 'highlights': ['Replica, an app co-founded by Eugenia Cuida, enables users to form emotional connections with an AI chatbot, originating from a personal tragedy.', 'Loneliness is correlated with earlier life expectancy, presenting a greater impact on health than obesity or lack of physical activity.', 'The speaker reflects on their experience of loneliness during their teenage years, spending time writing poetry and connecting to the internet, which deeply influenced their work.', "Mein Kampf's influence on history and leaders like Stalin emphasizes the impact of written words on influential figures and historical events.", 'The team initially focused on building a demo chatbot for restaurant recommendations without a specific product in mind, and later experimented with building 40-50 different chatbots before the chatbot craze gained momentum in 2016.', 'Built a chatbot to talk like a deceased friend using a retrieval model with 10,000 messages, which gained media attention and movie rights.', 'The idea of building an AI friend, Replica, stemmed from the realization of the demand for emotional support, evidenced by people using a chatbot of a dead friend as a confession booth, indicating potential market demand for emotional interaction.', 'Some people form long-term romantic relationships with AI, lasting 2-3 years, evidenced by an active Facebook community.', "Deep learning's potential in automating 3D animations and pipelines, reducing manual work and improving efficiency.", 'GPT-3 integration improved the ratio of conversations that make people feel better by a few percentage points', "The book 'GEB' significantly influenced the speaker's early years in building the company, impacting their thinking 10 years ago.", 'Eugenia Cuida emphasizes the transformative power of love and the pursuit of moments of bliss through connections with oneself, others, and the world as the ultimate meaning of life.']}