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UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”

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The Power of AI Therapists in the Mental Health Crisis

Last week we had on the pod, Noam Shazir, he was a Google brain for many years. He helped create the Lambda model, which Blake Lemoy and the Google engineer was fired last year after he said it has become sentient. And now he's built something called character AI, which again is a large language model. These are just, as you say, the predictive models. But in the same breath, he was saying, well, you know, this can be used to help people who otherwise might not have access.

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