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PLUS: AI Helps Some Autistic People Communicate
Davis McCondichie
May 30, 2023
What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. We missed you yesterday,but hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day if you’re State-side.
Here's what to catch up on:
Nvidia wants you to talk with video games
AI helps some Autistic people handle social anxieties
A lawyer cites ChatGPT and it doesn’t end well
Voyager is an AI that loves playing Minecraft, all on it’s own
AI HELPS VIDEO GAME NPCS COME TO LIFE
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, during Computex 2023, just gave us a sneak peek into the lovechild of gaming and AI, and it's a bit of a wild ride.
Picture this: a sultry cyberpunk ramen joint where you can actually natter with the boss man.
Yes, you read that right. No mouse-clicking on tedious dialogue options. Instead, you press a button, blurt something out, and voila, an actual response from a video game character.
They're painting it as a "sneak peek into the future of games."
But the chat demo’d still left me a bit underwhelmed. Maybe Nvidia should get some tips from GPT-4 or Sudowrite.
Watching the dialogue unfold in the video, it doesn't exactly feel like a seismic leap from the old NPC dialogue tree.
But what's impressive here is the generative AI making sense of our natural banter. Here's hoping Nvidia lets us play around with the demo and see different outcomes.
How does it work, though?
The demo is a love child of Nvidia and Convai, created to show off Nvidia ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) for Games, a middleware suite that can run on your PC as efficiently as it can in the cloud.
It's still murky whether developers will embrace the ACE toolkit, as the demo suggests.
It’s fresh tech and that means we have a way to go before you’re shouting at Mario to jump higher makes real sense. Till then, you can keep yelling at the screen.
We won’t judge.
Prepare to have your mind blown! Meet Wispr.ai – the next giant leap in personal computing.
Wispr is building the consumer hardware for the AI revolution. It's quite evident that language user interfaces (LUIs) are going to be a dominant form of interaction in every application - powered by GPT, Claude, and other AI platforms.
But current interfaces aren't built for a natural language first world. Keyboards are too clunky, and voice is not private. Wispr is building the most natural and seamless interface, and democratizing it for millions of users.
What if interacting with technology could feel just as natural as interacting with other people? For the first time, Wispr's neural interface + LLMs makes it possible.
With backing from some of the top investors like NEA and 8VC, and the founders of Dropbox, Turing, Whoop, Coinbase, Synchron, CTRL-Labs, Color, Warby Parker and more, Wispr is set up to redefine human-computer interaction.
What makes Wispr unique is their focus on not just bleeding edge neural interfaces, but also design & AI. Their team includes some of the most brilliant engineers, scientists, and designers.
CHATGPT HELPS WITH COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN A BIG WAY
Prompt: robot talks to human Style: Impressionism
Mandi Young, a whiz consultant based in Seattle, has mastered "masking.”
It's sort of like learning a second language, but instead of words, it's neurotypical social behaviors and body language. For someone with autism, like Mandi, masking is tough, exhausting, and can lead to misunderstandings.
Now, cue the entrance of ChatGPT.
Unlike human conversation partners, ChatGPT doesn't do body language. It's all about the words, and that's something Madi and others in the community find pretty refreshing.
Madi uses ChatGPT for a variety of tasks, from brainstorming sessions to therapeutic conversations. They've even found the bot useful in their work, developing communication strategies that create a smoother dialogue between autistic and neurotypical people.
Of course, ChatGPT isn't without its hiccups.
It can spew out biased or unpredictable answers from time to time. And let's not forget that pesky little thing called privacy.
But for many in the autistic community, the benefits outweigh these drawbacks.
Take Hadley Johnston for example. She's a fresh-faced first-year college student navigating the tricky waters of roommate living.
When she got into a squabble with her roomie, ChatGPT came to the rescue, helping her articulate her emotions. The result? A newfound sense of confidence and independence.
It's too early to start drawing conclusions. But one thing's for sure: in its own little way, ChatGPT is making waves in the autistic community.
And if you ask me, it's not just riding the wave, it's surfing it in style.
Quick Nuggets
📌 22-words that’s how simple the risk of extinction is in this statement from top AI researchers
😓 The hard things no one tells you about building products with LLMs
🕹️ Voyager: an embodied AI that likes playing Minecraft without outside help
🤔 Steven Levy give his take on the failures to regulate AI
💼 A lawyer uses ChatGPT as a citation in his case and it does not go well
✨ ChatGPT Plus users can now share prompts and chats with people in-app
👎 Eating disorder hotline replaces their staff with AI after unionization efforts
📸 Generative AI is helping falsify memories and blur the lines between reality and fiction
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Good Content, Down Time
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That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.
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