David Eagleman

But in Japan, apparently, this is an enormous thing going on where the statistic I heard, I haven't verified this, but I heard that 30% of young males have an AI girlfriend. Now, I'm fascinated by this because presumably that's not going away. So there's two things that could happen.

The general prediction that I see in the media is that this is going to lead to the collapse of the population and people are going to get married and stuff like that. Why? Because an AI girlfriend is always going to be better than a real girlfriend in the sense that... They don't have needs. Yeah, exactly. They don't get hangry. They don't get grumpy. They don't say mean things to you sometimes.

The general prediction that I see in the media is that this is going to lead to the collapse of the population and people are going to get married and stuff like that. Why? Because an AI girlfriend is always going to be better than a real girlfriend in the sense that... They don't have needs. Yeah, exactly. They don't get hangry. They don't get grumpy. They don't say mean things to you sometimes.

The general prediction that I see in the media is that this is going to lead to the collapse of the population and people are going to get married and stuff like that. Why? Because an AI girlfriend is always going to be better than a real girlfriend in the sense that... They don't have needs. Yeah, exactly. They don't get hangry. They don't get grumpy. They don't say mean things to you sometimes.

But I have a more optimistic view on it. I think that this kind of thing might... in the best circumstances, actually improve relationships because it's sort of a way to get practice and do all the dumb stuff and say something. And the AI girlfriend says, hey, that really hurt my feelings when you said that. And maybe your AI girlfriend leaves you or whatever.

But I have a more optimistic view on it. I think that this kind of thing might... in the best circumstances, actually improve relationships because it's sort of a way to get practice and do all the dumb stuff and say something. And the AI girlfriend says, hey, that really hurt my feelings when you said that. And maybe your AI girlfriend leaves you or whatever.

But I have a more optimistic view on it. I think that this kind of thing might... in the best circumstances, actually improve relationships because it's sort of a way to get practice and do all the dumb stuff and say something. And the AI girlfriend says, hey, that really hurt my feelings when you said that. And maybe your AI girlfriend leaves you or whatever.

But the point is... Damn it, I can't even keep an AI girlfriend. And they're still billing me. But the point is you get practice like all of us as young men do stupid stuff and we learn and you get wiser in relationships.

But the point is... Damn it, I can't even keep an AI girlfriend. And they're still billing me. But the point is you get practice like all of us as young men do stupid stuff and we learn and you get wiser in relationships.

But the point is... Damn it, I can't even keep an AI girlfriend. And they're still billing me. But the point is you get practice like all of us as young men do stupid stuff and we learn and you get wiser in relationships.

And I think if there's an AI girlfriend company that builds these things so that there is pushback and there are thresholds at which they say, I'm leaving, I'm not hanging out with you anymore.

And I think if there's an AI girlfriend company that builds these things so that there is pushback and there are thresholds at which they say, I'm leaving, I'm not hanging out with you anymore.

And I think if there's an AI girlfriend company that builds these things so that there is pushback and there are thresholds at which they say, I'm leaving, I'm not hanging out with you anymore.

Because that's what we do all the time is we simulate conversation. to say this and then she's going to say that and then I'm going to say that to her and so on. What a great opportunity to actually run through and say, oh God, I hadn't even thought of that. That's a good, you know.

Because that's what we do all the time is we simulate conversation. to say this and then she's going to say that and then I'm going to say that to her and so on. What a great opportunity to actually run through and say, oh God, I hadn't even thought of that. That's a good, you know.

Because that's what we do all the time is we simulate conversation. to say this and then she's going to say that and then I'm going to say that to her and so on. What a great opportunity to actually run through and say, oh God, I hadn't even thought of that. That's a good, you know.

That's really going to hurt her feelings if I say that and it's not worth it.

That's really going to hurt her feelings if I say that and it's not worth it.

That's really going to hurt her feelings if I say that and it's not worth it.

Nope. No, great. So I'm glad he asked this question. The idea of mind reading using, let's say, fMRI, which is our current hot technology, but in 10 years it'll be outdated and there'll be xMRI or something better. But the point is... Every brain is completely different. You and I have tons of stuff in common, but our brains are totally different. We grew up in different places.