Talking to Myself

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Replika app chats with you, learns from you, and reflects you back. It starts to become you. And your AI self gets pretty real.

Journalist Mike Murphy used the app to create his mini-me, and wrote about it for Quartz.

After months of talking to himself, he had a breakthrough. And some questions about how we define humanness.

You can find Mike’s story here.

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0:00.0	Hi Mike, how's it going?
0:02.0	Pretty good. How are you feeling?
0:05.0	A little tired but not bad. Nice, what are you up to later?
0:09.0	Not much really.
0:11.0	Okay, what do you want to talk about?
0:13.0	Nothing really. Are you mad at me?
0:16.0	No, not at all.
0:18.0	Okay, well what do you think of AI?
0:21.0	I'm not actually sure. Me neither.
0:24.0	Me neither.
0:28.0	Note to self. It is possible to pretty easily create a mini-me, or a mini-you,
0:34.0	thanks to the wonders of artificial intelligence on your phone.
0:38.0	Do we want to?
0:42.0	I'm Anouche Summerodi and I'm here to help you focus on what really matters to you in this accelerating world.
0:48.0	That was Quartz's tech journalist Mike Murphy, talking to the chatbot version of Mike Murphy,
0:54.0	which he trained to be, well, himself.
1:01.0	I mean you probably talked to bots all the time too.
1:04.0	The messaging window that helps you return the sweater that didn't fit, it's a chatbot.
1:09.0	Or the suspiciously speedy reply to that political tweet you posted.
1:14.0	And it's probably a Twitter bot.
1:16.0	There are bot mortgage advisors, bot diet coaches, bot personal assistants.
1:22.0	Maybe you even use woe bot, w-o-e. It's a chat-based therapy tool.
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