Especially considering I pay for Claude, the beer, and my business _thru Stripe_!
P.S. I'm so glad you're able to derive some joy from these new technologies, but I would also offer a soft suggestion to watch Season 3 of Westworld. It's probably not as good aesthetically as the previous two, but it's also pretty separated and deals throughout with the concept of AI therapists/friends, and how they might be a short-term comfort but a long-term threat to our individuality. Obviously a chat here and there with current LLMs is nowhere near that yet, but thought you might find it interesting!
On topic though, I wholeheartedly agree that this valuation seems rather... unrealistic. I do think "hype" is how we currently handle a lot of valuations, for the worse in my opinion.
with all due respect, how can you take yourself seriously doing this? I tried to use an LLM as a "cheap therapist" exactly one time and it felt so phony I quit almost instantly, after about four messages.
The bot pretends to feel compassion for you! How does that not induce rage? It does for me. False empathy is way worse than nothing.
And on top of it, you're talking to a hosted LLM! I hope you are not divulging anything personal to the random third party you're sending your thoughts to..
This stuff is going to be such a huge boon to authoritarian governments.
Feel free to pass over useful tech, but no need to disparage others for not wearing your tinfoil hat.
In light of all that it's hardly "chicken littling" to assume that hosted AI chat bots can't be trusted with intimate and personal details. The companies running them should be seen as inherently untrustworthy.
- build structure into conversation
- identify root causes of issues
- provide advise about behavior/thinking changes which could mitigate root causes
You’re not wrong, but you’re not right either. For whatever it’s worth, I absolutely plan on self hosting (nvidia Digit!) my future conversation partner. But nothing about me is terribly private. I love my wife and my sons and sometimes I wonder if I’ll be forgotten or if we’re about to give birth to the overman. It’s nothing I wouldn’t tell a stranger.
Lastly, no therapist I’ve ever met can talk about my favorite authors with me for hours, ad-hoc, on-demand, for pennys a day. All my real friends are sick of Dostoyevsky, but not Claude!
This is how I feel and it is so rare and refreshing to see someone else say it.
It appears to me that most people are very private and will go to great lengths to protect their privacy.
If privacy wasn't of particular concern, this is as near an "absolute good" idea as one can forge.