Weekly: Emotional AI, heat pumps, liberty money

This week’s “Weekly” is about emotional AI: The cognition researcher Eric Schulz has investigated whether language models – in this case GPT-3 – can be scared and how the language model reacts to it. To do this, Schulz and his team fed the AI ​​with classic psychological tasks. Using questionnaires similar to those used to measure human anxiety, the research team determined the “emotional” state of the AI. What does it mean to attribute emotions to an AI? And how does the behavior of this AI then change?

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Also in this week’s “Weekly”:

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More on this in the whole episode – as an audio stream (RSS feed):

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(jl)