I wanted to inform folks about a little artificial intelligence Cyborg Psychology app that Dr. Philipp Burckhardt (Director of e-Learning, Analytics, and Technology at CMU) has written with his father, Dr. Martin Burckhardt (the German Cultural theorist I work with and translate for), using off-the-shelf AI products. Unlike pure chat GPT applications, however, this is a mixtum: a carefully curated and staged event where nothing is left to chance (right down to the music, in which I also have a part).

Part of their purposes in constructing it is as an experiment to bring the common perceptions into relief of what artificial intelligence is and isn’t capable of, and – more specifically, how this technology can used as a prosthetically-assistive self-mirroring of our own self-understandings. It’s also demonstrating the degree of sophistication of what can be assembled using today’s off-the-shelf AI apps. If one takes this as an AI augmented personal assistant, it gives an idea how this can be useful in the field of education.

If anyone wants to check it out, the app can be found at: https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/psychologie-des-cyborgs

In two or three days there will be a little text about the making of on the ex nihilo blog

Also, Philipp can be contacted directly for questions about how it was constructed or the like at: https://www.philipp-burckhardt.com

New to LessWrong?

New Comment
4 comments, sorted by Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 6:23 AM

The main link might be broken due to an extraneous ‘i’.

Hi and thanks…apologies for my being naive, but what do you mean be an extraneous ‘i’? I just checked the the link and they seems to work on both my iPad and Mac desktop. 

The app link is https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/psychologie-des-cyborgs 

I mean in the paragraph “If anyone wants to check it out, the app can be found at: https://cyborg-psychologiy.com”. I suppose I should have said “the main pseudo-link”. 🙂 What you gave in this last comment points to the blog post, not (directly) to the app.

¡Mucho Gracias! Especially since I didn't realize I'd cut/paste from the old, inactive test url as well. 🤭