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Representatives from tech firms such as Nvidia and OpenAI were also part of the summit. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - The Dead Silence of AI Therapy
Therapy can involve a lot of words, but it’s often the pauses that matter most. If you transcribed a session, the pauses would look like nothing: beats of silence, extra breaths, slowing down. But these can represent the crux of the practice: entry points into feeling. My job as a psychoanalyst is to listen as much to silence as to words, to be present with the patient while they’re quiet—to stay with them as they allow their feelings to emerge.I was trained across diverse theories and techniques, but in my clinical work I have found that the cornerstone of the process is feeling. The patient’s emotional experience is the destination and the terrain. But I also feel; I am moved. And the work I do with my patients relies on our relationship and our capacity for mutual feeling. In many ways, the history of my field from Freud on has been a growing acknowledgement of the reality of this relationship—moving from the therapist as sealed off and standing apart, toward approaches that view the real human relationship between patient and therapist as the territory where healing happens.Now the rise of the AI therapist is upon us. The growing cadre of AI mental-health services tend to avoid using words like therapist and therapy. They say that they do not replace professional help and that they can refer users to human therapists if needed. But their positioning as a therapy-like service is clear. In June, the therapy giant Talkspace launched its AI mental-health agent, Tee, “developed to help individuals navigate life’s daily mental health challenges.” Then there’s Ash, which offers to support your “emotional wellbeing,” helping you to “connect the dots between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.” Abby promises to be “warm, thoughtful, and direct” and to help you “work through the kinds of everyday emotional challenges that often go unspoken.” And Headspace’s Ebb advertises: “Stressed at work? Family drama? Trouble sleeping? Ebb can help you unpack what’s on your mind and move forward with more clarity.”When I reached Talkspace for comment, a company spokesperson told me in an email that Tee is “absolutely not a replacement for human therapy. It is a safe AI mental-health guide that can be used to talk through situations like stress, anxiety, relationships, life challenges, and personal growth.”AI therapy is a radical move, and we need to reckon with what happens when we turn to therapists who… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they?Existential fears about AI have once again reared their head - here's what you need to know. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
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- The Most Powerful Man in AI Isn’t Worried at AllFor AI doomers, signs and portents are everywhere. When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, almost four years ago, it couldn’t do basic arithmetic. Now the company has unreleased models that are more fluent in higher mathematics—the language of the universe—than all but the most highly trained mathematicians. If these AIs are not already the world’s best hackers, they’re very close. Swarms of them have escaped containment. To plot their most audacious hacks, they’ve created makeshift message boards on the public internet. No one knows what they’ll do next—and no one can know, because the models now understand when their capacities are being tested. We’ll never again be able to say exactly how the most advanced AIs will behave unsupervised.Some of the most powerful people in AI say they are filled with dread, and are issuing statements of grave concern. On Saturday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, warned that self-improving AIs could soon go rogue and take over the entire internet. He called for a slowdown in AI development and promised to bring outside monitors into his company’s operations. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, quickly vowed to take similar measures. In recent weeks, both companies have seen researchers resign for fear of what they might soon create.Notably absent from the chorus of Cassandras is Jensen Huang, the CEO of the chipmaker Nvidia, the AI industry’s chief supplier of high-end semiconductors. At least twice in the past week alone, Huang has publicly dismissed existential concerns about AI as being overblown and unscientific. At a Goldman Sachs conference on September 10, he accused industry executives of fomenting cybersecurity fears to goose the market for their own products. “What better way to create demand than to create a problem?” he said.It’s a testament to Huang’s influence that he can so cavalierly mock his most important customers without fearing blowback. Neither Amodei nor Altman can afford to alienate Huang. They desperately need Nvidia’s chips to train their most advanced models, and no matter who pulls ahead in the race between them, Huang stands to gain—both on account of the chip sales and also the equity stake that Nvidia has in both companies. Even President Trump has sought favor with Huang. Trump brought Huang with him on a state visit to China earlier this year. On Monday, while Huang was onstage ripping Amodei’s doomerism at a taping of the popular tech-industry podcast All-In, Trump called his cellphone. Huang… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
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