Sophie Haigney
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320 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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Hard Fork · ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste · 26 Jun 2026
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This company likes to say that they're trying to build robots with soul.
Robots that don't just wait for you to ask them something, but robots that work proactively to become part of your life.
Most of the AI that we interact with right now sort of sits dormant and waits for us to prompt it.
We say, hey, can you help me write this email?
Can you answer this question that I have?
But if we're not engaging the AI, it's not engaging us.
This technology is built to be constantly proactive.
It doesn't wait for you.
At least eight times a day, this technology is going to ask you a question.
It's gonna jump in and tell you a joke.
It's constantly monitoring the room through its cameras, its listening devices.
It's constantly trying to assess, is this person open right now for conversation?
And if they are open to conversation, what's the best way for me to start that conversation?
She was sort of freaked out.
She was like, what is this thing and why is it talking to me?
You know, Jan was born at a time where there wasn't color television.
her efforts to FaceTime with her great nieces and nephews, as she describes it, are often a disaster, right?
She can't get the camera to work.
She doesn't see anything.
She can't hear things.
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