u/CackleRooster

You've heard the horror stories about people killing themselves because their chatbot told them to. Now, "a mental health organization called Spring Health is looking to measure how AI tools can detect and respond to suicide risk. The company has developed VERA-MH (Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health), which it maintains is the industry’s first open-source, clinically validated evaluation framework for this purpose.

"At the heart of the conflict is a deliberate choice Anthropic has made: unlike nearly every other major tech company, it has refused to flatter or appease the White House. Washington insiders call it politically naïve. Anthropic’s employees and recruits, as well as some of the AI company’s customers, call it a feature." It's a feature. It's a feature that may yet lead to Anthropic moving its HQ out of the US, but it's still a feature.

Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control--just ask Anthropic Fable customers--for most countries and companies to rely upon. So, it is that both governments and businesses outside the US are turning to open-source AI models.

The sharp rise in AI token costs will remind many enterprise customers of cloud pricing's early days. However, measuring the value derived from AI remains an unsolved problem.

Look, every problem can't be solved by crunching numbers and throwing AI at it. Sometimes it takes the art, taste, subtlety, and creativity that only humans can bring to bear on a problem.

This is not your usual discussion of "Is AI sentient?" Instead, it shows how, by using goats (Yes, goats), you can build a neural network in AoE II that can support a Turing-complete machine. If that sounds absurd, well, that's the point. I thought this paper was hysterical, but it won't be to everyone's taste.