Rose Rimler
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So you felt it work on yourself.
So now we've got an N of two, but... I'm sold.
But yeah, so then he and his colleagues, they designed a controlled trial to see if this rang true for other people.
So he got about 300 people in this trial, and he had them take a survey about their loneliness.
He asked them stuff like, how often do you feel isolated or left out or lacking companionship, stuff like that.
And he split them up into different conditions.
So one group did basically what Julian himself had tried out.
They talked to the chatbot for 15 minutes.
Other groups spent 15 minutes doing something else.
So, for example, one group chatted to other participants.
So they were basically in a chat room talking to a stranger, a real human.
So, yeah, like what I used to do when I was a kid in the early days of AOL.
Another group spent 15 minutes watching YouTube.