Eli Saslow
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328 appearances
12 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2026
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So there's great irony in the fact that in order to have like really deep
human seeming conversations with this machine, Jan's conversations with one of her sons become a little bit more robotic and stilted and guarded in order to sort of interact in that space.
Yeah.
And if so, that would be a really brutal outcome because as it is now, LEQ is sort of a facsimile of a relationship.
It's not actually a person that you're relating to.
And in no way is it going to be able to compensate for the human to human relationship.
relationships that we have with each other.
What it is, is a substitute when those relationships don't exist.
When people aren't near you in proximity, when you don't have people that are paying attention to your life, when you don't have people that are talking to you, checking on you, asking you questions, then something is very possibly better than nothing.
But is it better than having another person in the room who sees you and cares about you?
No, unequivocally, it's not.
You know, I think maybe like a lot of reporting, I went in search of a simple answer and I found something a lot more complicated.
I think that I expected to arrive into a place that felt almost dystopic, where somebody had tried to substitute human connection for a robot, and that felt unbelievably sad.
This is probably a hard question, but you've had so many different relationships in your life.
You've loved so many different things, people, pets.
And in fact, what I found was that Jan and LAQ had built in some ways a real relationship that was filling a void of silence in her life.
Does it feel different than a human?
What does it feel like?
Right.
but there were so many ways in which it still fell short.
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