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