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
it's truly the most magical i've felt using any ai app. i think we're getting this 🤏 close to what consumer ai should look and feel like. no one has built it yet
btw replika is relaunching in a few weeks with a completely new experience and it's insane. testing it on testflight rn, retention on a test cohort is crazy at 80% day 7. dm @replika - they still had a few invites for the closed alpha in the morning
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
technology isn’t going to stop anyway. we either acknowledge the risk of slopification, become very intentional in caring about humans & try our best to lead the change, or slop wins.
ai can be beautiful too. good ai nudges you to reach out to an old friend & go outside and
I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently
“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images