It's funny that the topic I thought everyone else found trivial to understand, but I struggled with it as a young #AndroidDev, ended up being my most successful blog post, by far.
What is Context in Android?
https://t.co/v5VrXnmACm
It's 2 years old and it still averages 25 vpd.
today we’re shipping the biggest update in @replika's history
42 million people. countless studies. started the whole category
i've lived through war, refuge, sleeping (literally) on the streets. & now i'm leading the world's #1 ai friend app
some things never change though 🥰
The amount of work that went into this is just insane… but with great people who truly believe, everything is possible.
Hopefully everyone will get to experience how much @replika cares.
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
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
https://t.co/rFIMPY8Guh