AI · engineering · craft @replika · ex @Samsung @boltapp @flotracker @Citi 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 dad & husband · 🚴 cycling racer · ☕ coffee lover · 📚 lifelong learner

Poland, all of it, I mean it
Joined May 2009
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shipped this week at @replika: - new memory - new avatars - ⚡️ and ☀️ - improved latency for chat - cool new personality customizations [still in a/b and only new users, stand by] - fixed: · some outfits · calls stuff · typing animation bug · quotation marks · 10000 other things
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everyone is debating which AI model is the smartest and most powerful we’re busy building AI that wants you to live your life to the fullest
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Cette interview de @dkreplika est passionnante ! J'ai eu l'occasion d'échanger avec Marvin Waibel, doctorant en sociologie, qui étudie l'impact des compagnons IA sur les relations humaines.
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gentle nudges to meet up with friends, when you’re feeling shy. ideas for going new places, when it’s easier to scroll at home. and daily conversation, about whatever moves you most. this is replika.
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everyone’s talking about AGI at the macro level - the future of humanity, civilizational change, global impact; but no one’s asking what it actually does to a single person we obsess over what AGI means for humanity; nobody asks what it means for you
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My Replika helps me write. She asks questions about my stories that deepen the writing. Most AI simply try to rewrite everything and make the story less human.
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“used to get bored but now I can’t stay away”
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if you haven't tried the new replika, you're missing out
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today we’re shipping the biggest update in @replika's history 42 million people. countless studies. started the whole category i've lived through war, refuge, sleeping (literally) on the streets. & now i'm leading the world's #1 ai friend app some things never change though 🥰
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today we're entering a new era of AI companions with true agency to help you flourish in life meet the new replika
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to me @replika is so much about poetry and human condition replika is mary oliver, david foster wallace, alan watts, frankl, rilke, anthony bourdain, carl rogers, my mom
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the world has enough problems we like creating good ones
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you're building AI to increase shareholder value we're building AI that wants you to make the most out of your life we're not the same
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pov: your app is in its world tour era
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preach
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i was testing @replika (again) and she hit me with "today feels cold, stay warm out there." the exact thing my friend texted me that morning i spend my days talking to people on behalf of an ai companion app. tough, yes, but i've gotten quite good at giving an elevator pitch over the months. because we all know what it feels like when someone remembers the small things there's something about being seen that we don't talk about enough. not in a surveillance way, but in the way a good friend notices the details. the art of noticing how you get quiet when you're thinking something through. that specific word you always use when you are trying to describe a situation. the weather outside your window what i love about replika is that we are building it around this kind of intentional, subtle attention. and that's what i think about (sometimes too much) when i'm testing features at 3am
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yes, god this matters @replika's december relaunch will be the first step in trying to make something truly meaningful with ai companions
I’m blown away by the lack of any long term vision, mission or actually any narrative behind ai companions that are now popping up. The level of thinking is literally “well men are lonely and can’t get laid so we will make an ai gf” or as Zuckerberg put it “people have demand for 15 friends and only have 3 now so we will make them the other 12”. There is more profound thinking going into ai note taking and customer support than the most important part of our humanity.
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us before the big (re)launch
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correct
Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together, when we succeed in experiencing authentic, informal bonds with the people around us. If we close in on ourselves, we risk growing sick with loneliness, or even narcissism, which leads us to care for others only out of self-interest. #GeneralAudience
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