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42 ZHANGJING · EPISODE COLLECTION

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· 60:11 · ZH + EN

Character.AI’s Post-Training: More Conversation Does Not Necessarily Mean Better Understanding

Guests / narrator:Ted

Open conversation has no single correct answer. A user may enjoy a response, rewrite it, delete it or request another. Reflecting on approximately a year at Character.AI, Ted discusses turning such behavior into data, training and experiments. The central subject is a system that continually discovers mistakes.

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· 45:16 · ZH + EN

EVE’s Companion Design: How a Relationship Continues After the AI Remembers You

Guests / narrator:Tristan

Tristan wants EVE to build a continuing relationship around the real user’s life: understanding earlier experiences, connecting them with present goals and participating in new daily conversations. He distinguishes this aim from jointly creating stories about characters. The host points out that extended use can also come from consuming content.

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· 52:24 · ZH + EN

Personal AI’s Hard Question: When Does Remembering Your Life Become Understanding You?

Guests / narrator:陶芳波

An AI can retrieve information or fill out forms without knowing which result matters to you. Tao uses this distinction to explain the move from MindOS to Me.bot: first build AI that understands an individual’s needs, then let it call tools providing services. He also wants AI to keep learning from daily experience rather than depend permanently on its original workflows.

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· 79:21 · ZH + EN

Three Routes to AI Product Fit: Help Beginners Finish, Professionals Refine, and Fans Return

Guests / narrator:赵充 / Joe / 胡修涵

Product–market fit, or PMF, means that a group of people repeatedly finds a product worth using or paying for. These three interviews show why no single number proves it for every business. An occasional office tool can first demonstrate that individual tasks merit payment. Professional software needs to participate in real delivery. A character entertainment product must explain why people return.

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· 55:52 · ZH + EN

AI Product Judgment Comes From Running a Model as a User Experience

Guests / narrator:张涛(Hidecloud)

Hidecloud previously designed consumer products and worked on customer success, presales and consulting at 神策数据. Reflecting on roughly seven months of AI practice, he repeatedly emphasizes understanding through direct work: how a model receives input, where it fails and which change makes an interaction possible. His argument does not require every product manager to become an algorithm engineer.

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· 49:57 · ZH + EN

FlowGPT’s Early Growth: Let Creators Finish the Experience, Then Ask Why Users Return

Guests / narrator:Jay 党嘉成

A prompt contains instructions, background and rules supplied to a model. Sharing one can resemble sharing a template, but a consumer may actually want a text adventure, a conversational character or a tool that repeatedly completes a task. FlowGPT’s changing description reflects a move from collecting instructions toward consuming those experiences directly on its platform.

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