Co-founder & CEO of @HumanAI - psycholinguistic Artificial Intelligence
Our primary work is revisioning technology's relationship with Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Conversations.
Social Impact technology in the fields of #conversationalAI #HumanlikeMemory #anxiety #stress #depression #dementia #metaverse #HumanAI #bruadar #cuimhne
Big detractor of foundational technologies like LLM.
StreetPass for Mastodon takes the same idea, but applies it to the web instead. Every time you visit a website, you can make a connection with the owner of that website, if the website has registered a verification on Mastodon. All websites can now suddenly become potential social connections.
The Twitter API shutdowns show the fragility of social graphs that are siloed and owned by big private companies. A small part of the solution is to move the social graph to the web itself instead.
Meanwhile, here is some actually good coverage about the current generation of chatbots, from @kharijohnson
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-got-big-and-their-ethical-red-flags-got-bigger/
On #ChatGPT, Nick Cave may not be sitting on the fence
His view is that the latest wunderkind is "replication as travesty”
He clarifies: "with all the love and respect in the world, this song is bullshit, a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human, and, well, I don’t much like it."
And there's the thing - Nick Cave articulated an opinion based on experience and understanding and backed it up with meaningful and relevant insights
SO un-GPT of him
Pretty flattering to be identified being part of the Spatial Computing element of the #Metaverse - our psychospatial data layer is designed to enrich conversations, identify a range of psycholinguistic aspects, and inform the Human Experience
It being a cold day and a great snow my physic did not work so well as it should have done.
CTRL - SALT - DELETE. One of the new names for one of our city snow plows #hamont
This makes me very angry.
These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.
The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.
A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.
Be a designer, not a decorator.
The masculine urge to share your new toys with others is 100% of the appeal behind large language models like #ChatGPT
https://masto.ai/@HumanAI/109692540603411614
ChatGPTs greatest contribution seems to be the enablement of theft but isn't too far off the hype of Crypto as the narrative is pushed by fan-techies
ChatGPT 2/2
That bring us to ChatGPT for therapy - as it progresses from being a GPT3 therapist that advocated suicide to a GPT3 client, it's still a poor fake and creates a shallow relationship with the user
There are massive unknown costs - a $30bn tech company won't be offering this for free - and the carbon footprint is unknown
It's primary corpus is the Internet 2001-2021 - it's is a copyist rather than inventor / innovator - it's still just an auto-plagiariser and plausibility vacuum
As we build psycholinguistic technologies, we have many VCs ask us about ChatGPT
First, we assessed it by trying it on our own code but it seems to only work on code that everyone else uses as it looks to be a scrape of GitHub rather than anything unique or custom.
Second, it rips off original thinkers and creators and much of the information it provides as fact is actually false - as evidenced by ripping off our work & effort in psychological imagery as a dream interpretation method.
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@emilymbender I totally agree. I recall a GPT-3 'therapist' advocating suicide to a GPT-3 'client'.
Couching such conversations in the right grammar isn't enough.
True psychotherapy demands a safe conversational space where clients can talk: where the therapist asks questions and builds on the answers. Therapists never advise.
While there is a therapeutic morphology, the therapist has to be able to allow for tangents.
GPT may be suited to Mindfulness and CBT, but not psychotherapy.
The Enemies of the NHS are now softening it up for destruction. https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/10/nhs-privatisation-rishi-sunak-enemies-softening-destruction/
Our work in psycholinguistic AI, ML, DL is (by both accident and design) strongly oriented around addressing the dangers of the Metaverse.
This includes:
Increased data sovereignty
Psycholinguistic fingerprinting
Identification and management of mental health issues
Identification and reframing of bias
Anticipation and management of conflict
It is definitely an arms races between positive social impact and bad actors.
https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/what-are-the-dangers-of-the-metaverse/
https://chaos.social/@thomykay/109660240344948986
Thomas is right to question old approaches to organizational analysis and culture analysis
A lot comes down to individual & collective perspectives and perceptions
Sheep-dip approaches designed to fit into a spreadsheet are, as he says, reductionist - they are also no longer for purpose.
Our R&D into contextual psychology began in 2004 - it's evolving but already provides contextual insights to work at individual, team, and organizational levels
https://techhub.social/@IntegerMan/109660109429357917
Matt is 100% correct
ChatGPT is too busy being a smart-ass to consider the consequences
The tech has a history of malpractice in mental health
Our work in AI Psychotherapy meant the invention of a conversationer that asks questions rather than demands to be trained (on shaky corpora) and throwing out words of wisdom
To be fair, CBT / Mindfulness and ChatGPT will make for good bedfellows - both lacking substance and both getting VC funding to drive PR
Just found that @SirHairyPoppins is on here.
And this is his latest piece of work - the portrayal of a right piece of work...
Suella Braverman in her standard outfit for a quiet night in, spitefully demonising and persecuting minorities immigrants and refugees
Rather amazingly, Tory peer, serial con artist and all-round dreadful person found to have fiddled millions of pounds.
Go figure.
https://www.ft.com/content/7a2093f8-55f8-400f-9176-2225b9193e05
