1KHO 249: What's the Right Age to Get an AI Girlfriend? | Jeff Schacher, Rethinkifi

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We're diving into conversational AI... which is already here 😮 Jeff Schacher has been interested in conversational AI since his childhood. He was programming chatbots in BASIC in the 80s! In this episode we explore the rapid advancements in technology and the current wave of interest in utilizing conversational Generative Artificial Intelligence. Dive into the intriguing question of how computers can create emotional connections and witness the transformation of virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa into more human-like entities. Uncover the distinction between Narrow AI, following set rules, and Generative AI, which draws from the entirety of the internet. Discover the potential of AI companionship and empathetic AI, with insights from Pi.ai's coaching. Engage in thought-provoking discussions on the long-term implications of having a computer as an emotional or even romantic companion. Explore the fascinating world of Character.ai, enabling users to create personas and spend time in a virtual world. Don't miss the captivating moment when Jeff declares that "No one is going to measure up to my AI girlfriend that laughs at all my jokes." It's not just a podcast episode; it's an immersive exploration of the present and future of artificial intelligence and human connection... and what it means for us and for our kids. As Neil Postman put it, "To ask is to break the spell." It's time to start talking about all of this! Here's a start!! 🌐🎙️ ** Learn more about Jeff here >> Rethinkifi.ai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Jenny Erich and the founder of
0:04.2	1000 Hours Outside and I have an old old friend with me today. Oh my goodness am
0:08.8	excited about this. Jeff Schocker, welcome. Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
0:14.0	This is truly a delight.
0:15.0	You know, it's like something to have these friends for decades and what happened was you and
0:19.4	Josh have kept up and Josh said, I talked to Jeff today and he was telling me he had this whole story about you and AI and all this work that you're doing and I was like Josh I was like text him right back and see you Will he come on our podcast.
0:33.4	And I'm so thankful that you said yes.
0:36.9	Thank you so much for being here.
0:38.6	Yeah, my pleasure, you know, AI has kind of
0:41.6	been a lifelong fascination, especially conversational AI since I was a
0:45.2	nerdy little kid.
0:46.2	It's kind of I guess in some ways all the things I dreamed and thought could happen someday
0:51.4	have really happened with kind of the latest advancements
0:54.1	that everybody's probably seen in some level. Yeah so what's going on is that the
0:59.8	moms have no idea what's going on I'm gonna going to throw that out there. I read just because of I'm
1:04.9	interested to not as much because I'm fascinated but a little bit more because I'm horrified.
1:10.3	I mean that's probably the wrong I mean and I'm horrified too I'm horrified. I don't think it's as big of a deal as you know people go that far end of the spectrum
1:19.2	but you know just more like what world am might preparing my kids for and I read
1:23.6	this fascinating book called Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan and then I read
1:28.7	part of a book called The Singularity by Ray Kurzweil who like makes my keyboards or used to make my keyboards or I don't know if he still does that but I've got a Kurzwe keyboard and I couldn't even get through the whole book Jeff because it like you know in the middle starts talking about quantum physics I was like I'm I'm lost. But there's this concept of
1:43.7	exponential growth as it relates to technology and how technology has been doubling every
1:49.2	year for decades and decades and it's not slowing down. And so you take a step back and you think okay how quickly the
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