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@louie Resonated. Nice post. I have those days too. I sit and look at stuff and then later wonder what the hell happened.
So this week I changed it up and built something:
@shockwaver @erosdiscordia Never saw this reply. Agree that in general I do not see an LLM as a direct categorical replacement.
But the concept is one avenue worth exploring and understanding.
Also, you said "someone who knows how to not inflict more harm," but let's not forget that humans make mistakes too. That outcome is possible even with a trained person.
@vicki This is so great! Adding to Feedly.
Also, not just humans writing stuff. Humans staying stuff too. And reacting to stuff.
Here was my take experimenting with OpenAI o1 as a therapist:
https://theteardown.substack.com/p/software-update-therapist-vo1?r=2dd9
In today’s newsletter, I revisited using technology for therapy, experimenting with OpenAI’s o1 model that has the power to reason.
My prior experiment (last week’s) post using the 4o model, not one tuned for complex reasoning.
Short story: o1 gets us closer to what seems like real, human conversation! To an undiscerning eye, you might not know at all.
So fascinated by the evolution of this technology.
@danluu This is great. I want to read through it a few times to really grasp his points.
But at first glance, I found myself saying: this is a postmortem on ... what? The product idea, pitch, goal wasn't obvious to me.
A postmortem may not need that bit but it does speak to a potential problem, right? Clear and simple articulation of what X is and why you're worse off not using X today. Didn't get it here.
Have it too (imposter syndrome). I wrote about something I tried to resolve it at link below! Short version: trying an AI agent as a therapist (in addition to in-person that I already do)
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https://open.substack.com/pub/theteardown/p/software-eats-my-therapist?r=2dd9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@CoolerPseudonym This is a valuable take. I continue to be, at best, skeptical of new/modern/etc. takes on some of these paths in the broad medical world.
I don't use BetterHelp but the site did seem very sleek, modern, etc. and I wondered if I was the customer or the product.
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