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What Happens When Your AI Companion Can Be Seen
Reporters covering the AI companionship space tend to focus on the chat. It's the easy part to describe. But the more interesting story right now is happening on video, and SweetDream sits near the center of it. At sweetdream.ai, video calls are available with select characters, and the people using them describe a shift that's hard to capture in a feature list.
The mechanics are straightforward enough on paper. You build an AI girlfriend exactly how you want her, choosing appearance, personality and voice, and the platform's chat keeps track of your history so conversations build over time. From there you can send voice messages, take real-time phone calls, and, with the right character, move to a video call where she actually appears and responds. The continuity is the point. Nothing feels disconnected.
Set against competitors like candy.ai or ourdream.ai, all working in the same emerging field, SweetDream's edge is consistency across the whole experience rather than one flashy trick. The video call is impressive, but it lands because everything leading up to it already felt real. That's the detail most observers keep coming back to.
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Shout out to all the childless whores that be fucking up them pretzel lines at disney world. Yâall are the worst and some random mom out there hates you.
Update: The Post also thinks youâre a weird childless whore.
Proud to be a pretzel-buying, childless whore
I work for WDW. PLEASE, childless millennials, come to the parks. You're ever so much better and more go-with-the-flow than shitty parents.
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Proud to be a pretzel-buying childless whore too!
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I love academic papers written solely for the purpose of dragging another researcher. Itâs like Jersey Shore but in academia.
Any title including the phrase âA Response To: â is basically an intellectual bar fight.
New view on the brain: Itâs all in the connections
Itâs not the individual brain regions but rather their connections that matter: neuroscientists propose a new model of how the brain works. This new view enables us to understand better why and how our brains vary between individuals. The researchers publish it in a special issue of Science on November 4th.
Our right hemisphere is for creativity, and the left is for rational thinking. Itâs an urban myth that stems from a classical view of how our brain works, namely that we have several brain regions that all have a specific function. Even though this âmodularâ view of the brain is superseded, it can still be found in many textbooks. Â
However, we should look at brain function differently, according to neuroscientists Stephanie Forkel at Radboud University and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten at the University of Bordeaux. Brain functions are not localised in individual brain regions but rather emerge from the exchange between these regions.
Essential for speaking and reading
âLook at language as an exampleâ, says Forkel. âHere, the result is greater than just the sum of the parts. To communicate, you need to very quickly understand what is said within a given context and consider the emotional intentions that depend on whom you talk to. If the brain worked in a modular fashion, it would not allow us to have all these different language computations in such a short time frame.â
Connections can amplify or reduce brain signals and determine the structure and function of the brain, according to neuroscientists. There is a strong relationship between the pattern of connections of brain regions and their activity during cognitive tasks. It is possible to predict where a function in the brain will appear based on brain connections. Forkel: âIf you look at a childrenâs brain before they acquire literacy, you see that the white matter, which consists of nerve pathways, is already connected to the âclassicalâ reading area.â
More insight into brain differences
An important gap in the classical view of the modular brain is that it cannot explain the variability between individuals. âEveryone has a different brain, which isnât anything like the textbook brain we all know. Thatâs something I realised when I worked on postmortem brains. Neuroimaging research, most of the time, makes all the brains of participants fit a standard brain, leading to a loss of insight into the variability between people. Thatâs a big topic in neuroscience at the momentâ, says Stephanie Forkel.
With the new network approach, scientists can model the variability between our brains, for example, in the light of evolution. âIf you look at the white matter, we see that older parts in our brain (the âreptileâ brain) are more or less the same. Parts that are more recently evolved are more variable between us. This puts brain evolution in a new framework.â
Furthermore, the new approach to investigating brain function could have a large impact on clinical treatments. âThere are patients with brain lesions without any symptoms or symptoms that you wouldnât expect. In a study, we looked at how the lesions affected the whole brain network, and we could show that we could use the network pattern to predict which symptoms patients had or which symptoms they would develop one year later.â
Professional networks
To update the work with this new model, it will be necessary for researchers to create professional networks to integrate multiple fields of neuroscientific research, according to the research team. This will push the current boundaries and lead to advanced neuroimaging methods, personalised anatomical models, and significant clinical impact.
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