Is the AI industry's obsession with companionship and therapy misguided?

And should artificial intelligence products really be about something else, be about thriving?

We're joined today by a brilliant artificial intelligence researcher and founder and CEO,

Elon Borough, who is the founder and CEO of ThrivePel, joining us here in studio.

Elon, great to see you.

Welcome to the show.

I'm so happy to be here.

Let me tell everybody where we met because there's an interesting story.

A long time ago.

Right.

And you have very fascinating perspectives on where things are heading in AI and where they should be heading.

And that was also the case about a decade ago when we met

when you were at what was then Facebook researching whether if you could have AI basically go

in the comments and take a heated conversation, inject some facts, and maybe diffuse some of the

polarization we were seeing in society.

So talk a little bit about that experiment and then give us your perspective on what happened there.

So for me, working on AI has always been about helping people live better lives.

And so at the time, I was like, I think back in 2015 or 2014, I don't remember exactly,

but I joined, I started talking about joining Facebook in 2014.

And I joined 2015, so probably 2015 or 2016.

But at the time, one problem that I thought was something that was making a lot of people

unhappy in their interaction online was how they were always fighting about stuff.

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