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AI teachers, AI friends, and AI lovers - talking digital empathy with neuroscientist, psychologist and founder, Dr Pauldy Otermans

Season 1, Ep. 13

Interview with Dr Pauldy Otermans, neuroscientist, psychologist, and founder of the Otermans Institute. Dr Pauldy helped build the first independent AI teacher - OIAI - with the mission to upskill 750 million underserved students globally by 2030. She was named one of the ‘22 most influential women in the UK of 2022’ by Start-Up Magazine UK and has also been awarded by the UK Prime Minister in 2021.


In this episode we talk AI teachers, AI friends, AI girlfriends, and much more.


Timestamps are:


00:00 - Intro

01:45 - The problem with teachers globally

03:00 - How the Otermans Institute started

05:30 - AI teachers

10:30 - Building their first supervised model

13:45 - "Eureka" moments

15:15 - Recursive learning

24:30 - How close are we to human-like relationships with AIs?

26:00 - AI girlfriends

30:00 - Optimizing for quality teaching

31:50 - The power of AI for good and bad

38:00 - Gaming and the metaverse

39:00 - Human vs AI learning

46:00 - Learning styles and interest


Find out more about Dr Pauldy and the OI here:


Instagram: OI https://www.instagram.com/oiedu19/?hl=en ; and Teddy AI: https://www.instagram.com/teddyai_official/?hl=en

Twitter: @Otermans_Edu, https://twitter.com/Otermans_Edu

Linkedin: Otermans Institute, https://www.linkedin.com/company/oiedu


#ai #aigirlfriend #aiteacher #education

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