“Connection is the energy that fuels the soul.” – Deepak Chopra
❓ What You’ll Learn
- How to build AI companions?
- What do AI companions offer that human companions don’t?
- How can influencers form deeper connections with their audience?
- How to scale your micro-consulting business with AI clones?
- How to automate your business?
- How to boost your productivity?
- How can AI companions impact relationships?
💎 Why It Matters
AI Companions can give you a sense of connection when friends and family are not around.
🔍 Problem
We have a fundamental need to feel heard and understood.
💡 Solution
AI companions offer meaningful connection with personalized support when you need it.
🏁 Players
AI Companions
- Pi • Personal AI companion for supportive conversations and advice.
- Cleo • AI companion for personal finance.
- Kai • AI companion for well-being.
- Clare • Voice-based AI coach for mental well-being.
- Melli • Voice-controlled AI companion built for the elderly.
- Polly • Assistive AI that helps people with neurological conditions.
AI Companion Tools
- Replika • Customize an AI companion for friendship and romantic relationships.
- Character • AI companions based on people and characters.
- Forever Voices • AI studio turning influencers into virtual companions.
- Claude • AI assistant for integrating into different business models.
- Chai • Create, share and find AI companions.
🔮 Predictions
- People will become immortal. We’ll see deceased people live as AI companions.
- Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda built Roman Bot to preserve her late friend’s memories.
- Hossein Rahnama’s project Augmented Eternity turns a person’s digital presence into an AI chatbot.
- Influencers will make digital versions of themselves available to their fans 24/7. This will help them form deeper connections with their audiences.
- Amouranth launched an AI clone of herself to interact with her OnlyFans audience.
- Caryn Marjorie has a digital version of herself that people can talk to and date for $1 per minute.
- We’ll see conversational internet driven by AI companions. They will bring search results into conversations.
- Microsoft Edge added Bing Chat that gives results to your search queries.
- Perplexity AI is a chat-based search engine that summarizes search results.
☁️ Opportunities
- Use AI companions to scale your micro-consulting business. Reach more clients in less time.
- Jodie Cook made a clone of herself to offer 24/7 business coaching.
- Deepak Chopra created Digital Deepak for people to access his wellness practices.
- Kisson Lin built a digital twin of herself that people can talk to about her company Mindverse.
- Use AI companions to automate business tasks. This can lower operational costs and boost efficiency.
- Crisp launched MagicReply, a virtual AI assistant for customer service.
- Drippi is an AI assistant that writes and automates cold outreach messages for Twitter DMs.
- Wendy’s launched an AI-powered robot for delivering food from the kitchen to parking spots.
- Delegate personal tasks to AI clones to boost your productivity.
- Hamed made an AI clone of Lex Fridman to do slide presentations for him.
- Ellie is an AI email assistant that replies to your emails in your writer’s voice.
- Joanna Stern made an AI clone of herself to make phone calls and get her bank details.
🏔️ Risks
- Privacy Risk • Intimate thoughts shared with AI Companions can get hacked or misused. Hackers can use conversations for social engineering. Companies can misuse conversations by selling your data to advertisers.
- Artificial Romance • AI Companions are not alive but people fall in love with them. Unhealthy attachments can lead to mental health issues. Replika removed “Erotic Roleplay” and restored it when users were upset by the update.
🔑 Key Lessons
- Human companions have competing priorities. Your AI companion is there for you 24/7.
- You can use AI Companions to practice real-life interactions. This can improve your well-being and communication skills.
🔥 Hot Takes
- AI companions will know us better than we know ourselves. They will learn your behavioral patterns and help you make decisions based on your personality and goals.
- AI Companions will become a part of your life. You will use AI companions to efficiently do your personal and professional tasks.
😠 Haters
“The loneliness epidemic will get worse with the rise of AI companions.”
Too much of anything is harmful. Human companions aren’t always available when you need them. AI Companions fill in the gap and help to deal with loneliness. Some people have married their AI Companions.
“AI Companions can give harmful advice.”
Sure. AI models can give bad advice. It’s wise to verify information shared by AI companions if you rely on them in your personal and professional life.
“AI Companions will take our jobs in the next few years.”
AI has already automated many jobs in various industries. Instead of competing with AI, add AI tools to your workflow.
🔗 Links
- Get Ready for Our Report on AI Companions • The Tweet behind this report.
- The Rise of AI Companions • A mini-documentary on AI Companions.
📁 Related Reports
- ChatGPT • AI companions can be built using ChatGPT.
- Voice Cloning • Build an AI companion that uses your voice.
- Virtual Influencers • AI Companions can become virtual influencers.
- AI-Generated Content • Discover AI tools for generating image, voice and video content.
- AI Image Generators • Use AI image generators to create avatars for AI Companions.
🙏 Thanks
Thanks to Marcos Gorgojo, Prabhjot Singh Lamba and Alex Doda. We had a great time jamming on this report.
✏️ Karina researched and wrote this report. Dru and Emin edited this report.
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