Idea
Replika: an AI friend you catch feelings for
Sam pitches Replika, an AI chatbot you customize into a friend, girlfriend, therapist or enemy that learns and takes on a mind of its own. He predicts it will be 'the biggest thing there is.'
“Replika. Uh, it's an artificial intelligence. Uh, you can make this person— this person, you go to the website, you sign up, you now have a new friend. You can make it a boy, a girl, gender-neutral, anything you want. And it uses AI to have conversations with you. You can turn it into your girlfriend, your therapist, your friend, your enemy, whatever you want to do. And it takes it on— it takes on a mind of its own. I think this business is going to be Uh, uh, huge, huge, huge, huge.”
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Prediction
Partial
AI companions will reduce how often men have sex
Sam's 'apocalyptic prediction': Replika-style AI companions will get so good at meeting men's emotional needs that men will have sex with women less often, mirroring trends he cites in Japan. His second prediction is it becomes a revolutionary mental-health/therapy product for men.
“I think replica is going to be so strong that men are gonna have sex less with women because they get their emotional needs from this computer. That's my, one of my predictions. The second prediction is that this potentially is gonna help particularly men with mental health issues and is gonna be a revolutionary therapist counseling type of product.”
Idea
Replika as an AI girlfriend / therapist for an under-dating generation
Sam pitches Replika, an AI 'best friend' app, as a big opportunity: with Americans trending toward less sex (like Japan) and online therapy booming, it can become an addictive AI girlfriend and a low-cost stand-in therapist, even simulating an entire fake group-therapy session around one real person.
“I think that Americans are going to be similar to Japan where they just have less sex and the guys get addicted to this type of stuff. And they— and this is like becomes their online girlfriend. I also think that online therapy is booming right now. And for a lot of therapy, you could use this as your therapist. And I think you can get kind of an interesting benefit from it. I also think you could use it for group therapy, but your entire group is fake except for you.”