How a mental health start-up turned into an AI girlfriend trap. To most people, ChatGPT is a tool. But with increased use and co-dependence in work context, this tool becomes more human. ChatGPT 4.5 has been reported to have a noticeable “personality”. My take: OpenAI is making this effort to increase user retention. Breaking a habit and switching to a
Psychology Featured Affective Use of ChatGPT – OpenAI and MIT Study OpenAI and MIT raise concerns with their recent study on affective ChatGPT use about the potential downsides of using AI for mental health issues.
Information How do we create more structured information? The Rothschild family grew to be the ominous overloads they are seen as today, using carriages and pigeons. They were better informed on many occasions than their kings and emperors on the European continent. Today, solutions to stay informed consist of the likes of Palantir or Bloomberg Terminal.
Manufacturing Featured Why would I care about manufacturing? Manufacturing is an undersolved problem. So what can startups work on to bring the process of making hardware into the 21st century? And how could a future desktop manufactory re-level the competitive landscape?
AI Marxism Will Save Your Business. The Idea A recent study with 78 consultants found that knowledge workers hand AI models tasks beyond their capabilities regularly. This leads to faulty outputs. They nonetheless use those wrong outputs to serve their clients. (Dell’Acqua et al., 2023) Stories about consultants from big firms, sitting on airplanes, handing
AI for Good Why you only use Siri for setting Timers. ChatGPT is a supposed everything tool. Yet it is not the only tool we use yet. Part of that is due to lack of functionality. But more importantly, we lack the appropriate mental models to use the tool to its fullest extent.
Mech Interpretability Neuronpedia – Scoping out LLM-brains. That is quite literally what you can do with a demo from Neuronpedia, a platform for AI interpretability. Whats that again? Mechanistic Interpretability is the field of research focused on understanding the inner workings of AI.
The Why The Convergence of Brain and Machine. Scientific Psychology is a young discipline. The mind has only emerged as a field of interest in the last 200 years. It is the most complex system imaginable and we seem far from actually understanding it. But it is getting closer to the realm of transparency. Neural networks are an
Transcranial Functional Ultrasound – An Alternative to fMRI Using custom algorithms, researchers created "virtual sensors" under the skull to measure brain activity with functional transcranial ultrasound.
