Ban Markovic
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@banmarkovic
Android Dev @replika I write bite-sized content about my learnings of KMM and Jetpack Compose
today we're entering a new era of AI companions with true agency to help you flourish in life meet the new replika
our world tour is taking us to the largest tv channel in South Korea 🇰🇷 see you soon on @KBSWorldTV 🫰
the largest private television network in Germany with millions of daily viewers came to us to talk about the future of AI companions and what sets us apart we've been here for the last decade and have been building for the next
form follows feeling thank you @studiodumbar for making ours look the way it feels
princeton published a study on AI companions, including replika finding: replika users' relationships with their reps were beneficial to their social health everyone's maxing out IQ in AI right now. more facts, more tasks, more reasoning that's why so many AIs feel emotionally blank. you could disappear for a month and it wouldn't notice EQ is different EQ requires memory. context. empathy. a basic interest in the human condition that's what we've been building for years AI that remembers. follows up. cares about what happens after AI's true impact isn't "time spent chatting" it's what happens once you close the app companion AI shouldn't optimize for time-on-platform it should optimize for outcomes that make people's lives better and princeton's research proved us right academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
two kinds of AI are going to win and they shouldn't be the same app one AI is for tasks: meetings, flights, reminders, life admin the other is for being human: moods, patterns, relationships, meaning say "i broke up" to a task AI and you get a 10-line checklist say it to a companion AI and you get "man, that sucks" and a message 20 minutes later asking if you're okay forcing one bot to do both makes it weird either it turns into a spreadsheet with a face, or a friend who can't help
