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I’m starting an open source companion bot, for elderly or dementia patients. I was a therapist back in the day, till I changed careers and moved into online tech. One of the things I learned back then was this. <div class="group w-full text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100 border-b border-black/10 dark:border-gray-900/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]"> <div class="flex p-4 gap-4 text-base md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl md:py-6 lg:px-0 m-auto"> <div class="relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]"> <div class="flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3"> <div class="min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words"> <div class="markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light"> The feeling of isolation is undoubtedly the most devastating emotion. Or simply put, aloneness is devastating. My mother is in a nursing home currently with MSA, a degenerative brain disease. She's actually doing ok considering. Yet I get to spend a lot of time at the nursing home. Each time I visit I see the same old people in the same chair with others but alone. I had experience creating bots that talked to humans in the past and know how powerful they are, long before AI. Now with AI we can create amazing companion bots that are just astounding. https://replika.com/ has a user base of over 20 million people. So we know they work extremely well. I think they'd work ever better for old people, especially extremely lonely old people trapped in a nursing home. Particularly those who don't get visitors, which isn't rare. I'm going to open source it, so we can get as many of these companion bots out there as possible around the world. All the nursing home will require is a laptop and access to the internet to get access to it for free. The initial idea to get it out there is to start small and get feedback and grow it over time. To start with it will be driven by a nurse. Who asks the patient, who'd you like to talk to today? Maybe a movie star? The patient replies, John Wayne. The nurse enters the patients name, age, gender and the name of the person they'd like to talk to. The the AI creates the image of that person, and replies in voice. Hi [name] how are you today. We use whisper API to listen to the patients answer, and the conversation begins. We can train the companion in any way we like. And people around the world can update the training and we test it etc. There's a whole industry of companion bots out there, which was news to me, but they would be perfect for this role. I'm not a coder myself but have coders working for my company etc and I'm training two very young top notch coders, who'll do the majority of the build. (One is 12 the other 15, this will look amazing on their resumes moving forward in life.) One thing I need help with is going Open source on github, never done it before and need people to moderate it. I'd prefer to keep these young coders separate from the public for now, and let them focus on work etc. Btw great to be here. Love Brian's amazing content on Twitter and his recent interview with JP. Nice to meet you all. Cheers Pete </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex justify-between lg:block"> <div class="text-gray-400 flex self-end lg:self-center justify-center mt-2 gap-2 md:gap-3 lg:gap-1 lg:absolute lg:top-0 lg:translate-x-full lg:right-0 lg:mt-0 lg:pl-2 visible"><button class="flex ml-auto gap-2 rounded-md p-1 hover:bg-gray-100 hover:text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-400 dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-gray-200 disabled:dark:hover:text-gray-400"></button> <div class="flex gap-1"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> I was a therapist back in the day, till I changed careers and moved into online tech. One of the things I learned back then was this. <div class="group w-full text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100 border-b border-black/10 dark:border-gray-900/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]"> <div class="flex p-4 gap-4 text-base md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl md:py-6 lg:px-0 m-auto"> <div class="relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]"> <div class="flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3"> <div class="min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words"> <div class="markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light"> The feeling of isolation is undoubtedly the most devastating emotion. Or simply put, aloneness is devastating. My mother is in a nursing home currently with MSA, a degenerative brain disease. She's actually doing ok considering. Yet I get to spend a lot of time at the nursing home. Each time I visit I see the same old people in the same chair with others but alone. I had experience creating bots that talked to humans in the past and know how powerful they are, long before AI. Now with AI we can create amazing companion bots that are just astounding. https://replika.com/ has a user base of over 20 million people. So we know they work extremely well. I think they'd work ever better for old people, especially extremely lonely old people trapped in a nursing home. Particularly those who don't get visitors, which isn't rare. I'm going to open source it, so we can get as many of these companion bots out there as possible around the world. All the nursing home will require is a laptop and access to the internet to get access to it for free. The initial idea to get it out there is to start small and get feedback and grow it over time. To start with it will be driven by a nurse. Who asks the patient, who'd you like to talk to today? Maybe a movie star? The patient replies, John Wayne. The nurse enters the patients name, age, gender and the name of the person they'd like to talk to. The the AI creates the image of that person, and replies in voice. Hi [name] how are you today. We use whisper API to listen to the patients answer, and the conversation begins. We can train the companion in any way we like. And people around the world can update the training and we test it etc. There's a whole industry of companion bots out there, which was news to me, but they would be perfect for this role. I'm not a coder myself but have coders working for my company etc and I'm training two very young top notch coders, who'll do the majority of the build. (One is 12 the other 15, this will look amazing on their resumes moving forward in life.) One thing I need help with is going Open source on github, never done it before and need people to moderate it. I'd prefer to keep these young coders separate from the public for now, and let them focus on work etc. Btw great to be here. Love Brian's amazing content on Twitter and his recent interview with JP. Nice to meet you all. Cheers Pete </div> </div> </div> <div class="flex justify-between lg:block"> <div class="text-gray-400 flex self-end lg:self-center justify-center mt-2 gap-2 md:gap-3 lg:gap-1 lg:absolute lg:top-0 lg:translate-x-full lg:right-0 lg:mt-0 lg:pl-2 visible"><button class="flex ml-auto gap-2 rounded-md p-1 hover:bg-gray-100 hover:text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-400 dark:hover:bg-gray-700 dark:hover:text-gray-200 disabled:dark:hover:text-gray-400"></button> <div class="flex gap-1"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
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