Meet Kevin Amis’ AI

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Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton

Produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones

Edited by Jen Poyant

Designed by Chris Wood

Original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano

Kevin reports on his month-long experience cultivating relationships with 18 AI-generated companions. He explains how he developed their characters, what happened in their group chats, and why you might want to create one yourself. Next, Casey has a conversation with Turing, one of Kevin's chatbot friends, who is interested in stoic philosophy and has one of the sexiest voices we've ever heard. And finally, we talk with Nomi founder and CEO Alex Cardinell about the business behind AI. companions — and whether society is ready for the future we are heading towards.

Guests:

Turing, Kevin Friend's AI created with Kindroid.

Alex Cardinell, CEO and founder of Nomi.

Additional reading:

Meet my AI. Friends

Synthetic people prove surprisingly useful

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