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Join Doctor JR and mythologist Dr. Cassandra Smith on a data-driven journey through humanity's eternal fascination with artificial beings. From bronze giant Talos to Prague's legendary Golem, artificial companions have captivated us for millennia—and now they're real.
MIND-BLOWING STATISTICS COVERED:
- Replika: 10M+ downloads, 70-minute average daily usage
- Character AI: 20M monthly active users (Nov 2024)
- Global emotion AI market: $5.9B (2024) → $17.2B (2029)
- 43% of Americans 18-29 use AI for emotional support
- 37% of enterprises deployed emotion AI in customer service
- GPT-4 fools humans 41% of the time in Turing Tests
- Stanford fMRI study: brains respond similarly to AI and human friends
- Carnegie Mellon research: emotion-adaptive AI improves satisfaction 42%
- EU AI Act: ...
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