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6 Myths of Chatbots (Podcast)

In this episode of the Synthetic Knowledge Podcast, New Sapience Founder and CEO, Bryant Cruse, goes over the 6 myths of chatbots, which are:

1. If the illusion is good enough, it’s the same.

2. LLMs make stuff up, but that can be fixed.

3. LLMs already have human-level performance.

4. LLMs are bringing us closer to AGI.

5. LLMs know things that no one has told them.

6. LLMs are self-evolving.

The Chatbots Have Gone Crazy! (Podcast)

In this episode of the Synthetic Knowledge Podcast, New Sapience Founder and CEO, Bryant Cruse, discusses the recent news of the current top two chatbots, ChatGPT and Gemini, malfunctioning in a very public way. ChatGPT was spitting out gibberish at the end of its output for some time, and Gemini was seemingly incapable of producing images of White people.

Air Canada’s Chatbot Failure (Podcast)

In this episode of the Synthetic Knowledge Podcast, New Sapience Founder and CEO, Bryant Cruse, discusses the recent chatbot controversy that affected Air Canada. Further, Bryant goes over why businesses should be weary of introducing LLM chatbots into their operations, and precisely why these specific AI’s fail at doing basic tasks. Finally, Bryant offers hope for the future, showcasing how sapiens will make a substantial improvement in these domains.

Part 5: AI and Magical Thinking

The term “magical thinking” is usually used to heap scorn on scientifically unsupported conjectures, but it is a real phenomenon. The fact that magic has been a part of so many human cultures indicates that it should be considered an aspect of human psychology and not dismissed out of hand as folly or simple superstition. Once again, if we want to understand what people say, think and feel about Artificial Intelligence we must consider human psychology.

Psychology & Artificial Intelligence: 6 Part Series

Humans create the technology to change our world, then the worlds we build change us. Nowhere is the intersection of technology and human nature more compelling and problematical than the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Part 4: AI & Theory of Mind

People “intuitively” understand that other people have thoughts and feelings that, though they differ in the particulars at any given moment, are basically of the same kind as they themselves experience.

Part 1: AI The Seductive Allure

Like alchemy which, through the transmutation of “base metals” into “noble metals,” aimed at nothing less than an elixir of immortality, the very idea of AI fires the imagination. We say that intelligence defines us as human beings.