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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Janelle Shane
“I love her book”
“it's brilliant I can't believe I didn't know about her thank you yeah for weird AI oh yeah I love her book oh she she's great”— Lex Fridman
The guest's own work
BookBy the guest
The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
Kate Darling
“you are the author of The New Breed what our history with animals reveals about our future with robots you open the book”— Lex Fridman
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Replika
Luka, Inc. (inferred)
“there's that replica app I haven't tried it but replicas like a spiritual companion like it's coming”— Kate Darling
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Amazon Astro
Amazon
“these companies are investing in embodied versions that move around of Alexa like Astro can I just say”— Kate Darling
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Cozmo
Anki (inferred)
“the people behind Cosmo the the robot the right people to design those as animators like Disney type of people”— Lex Fridman
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DALL-E
OpenAI
“the new image generation tools like Dolly uh where they've clearly put in a lot of effort to make sure”— Kate Darling
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Ex Machina
Alex Garland (inferred)
“that convinced the engineer that this thing was sentient and it's basically the plot of ex machina”— Kate Darling
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“we're about to be living in the movie Her except instead of about love is going to be about”— Lex Fridman
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The Fifth Element
Luc Besson (inferred)
“the more dystopian isn't it the Fifth Element where it's Will Smith in it who's in that movie”— Kate Darling
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