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AI may one day be your friend, lover and therapist

What happens when AI steps beyond the screen and into your personal life? These TED Talks reveal the surprising ways AI is reshaping connection, creativity — and even our understanding of what it means to be human.

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Bernt Børnich

Meet NEO, your robot butler in training

Eugenia Kuyda

Can AI companions help heal loneliness?

Daniela Rus

How AI will step off the screen and into the real world

Bob Mankoff

Can AI master the art of humor?

Aravind Srinivas

How AI will answer questions we haven't thought to ask

Amy Kurzweil

Time traveling with AI to connect with lost loved ones

AC Coppens, Kasley Killam and Apolinário Passos

What's our relationship to AI? It's complicated

Sara Giusto

The rise of virtual humans — and what they mean for the future

Riccardo Loconte

What if AI could spot your lies?

Catie Cuan

Next up for AI? Dancing robots

Brian S. Lowery and Kylan Gibbs

What makes us human in the age of AI? A psychologist and a technologist answer