Bhaumik Patel

“Once people learned the messages were co-created by a machine, it didn’t work. Simulated empathy feels weird, empty.”

The connection between psychedelics and neural networks and AI by @erik_davis

David Krakauer, president of the Santa Fe Institute, has a useful framework for describing the tension between assistance and agency that underlies both AI and mental health. Some technologies help us think, like the abacus, or a map. They open up new ways of thinking that we develop over time. Eventually we might not need the technologies any more... See more

IFS comes with a user manual. The role of the therapist is not to diagnose or to heal the client, but rather to guide them step-by-step through the relevant protocols. With a less structured modality like talk therapy, AI chatbots can only mimic therapist behavior, producing a simulacrum of empathy. With IFS, an AI-powered tool can do much of the... See more

Metacognitive Prompting The overall goal is to create AI systems that can deeply understand and align with individual human users. To achieve this, the researchers propose using a learning technique inspired by cognitive science theories about how human brains work.… Show more