Chris Lloyd wrote:

Ai should probably not be relied on for personal counselling or advice.  A friend of mine who is going through a divorce, was asking Chat how to deal with his ex. Luckily he ran it past a real friend (me) first. The AI advice was a mixture of motherhood suggestions, one good suggestion that I might not have thought of, and several bad. The best way to use AI in this context (if you must) is to share the output with a trusted friend. 

Thx Chris

The problem is for some matters we need an independent advisor or counsellor, who we can trust not to have been nobbled in some way, or have any connection with our real life. I actually asked Chat GPT this the other day and it insisted nobody has interfered with its training. I insisted that I had heard otherwise and so on - to protect people of course. Sorry. I would hate that anyone would think I would suggest anything untoward by my use of "nobbled". I have no idea how statristical modelling works but in the early days LLMs seemed almost radical, but sadly perhaps also reinforcing problem thinking., Who knows. Have you tried arguing wih one recently? Sorry for going on but for some matters we do not have trusted friends - not so much untrusted but people who understand and it sounds dodgy but sometimnes you want them to be on your side and believe what you say

Anyway Census soon. I wonder what AI makes of it all?

Edit I just remembered creating a few agents to do stuff for me a while back. Not sure if they have achieved anything helpful yet. I am convinced that the capabilities have been intentionally nobbled since it first appeared on the scene. Whatever happened to giving it a 5 minute job description and leaving it be to work for you

Hi all 

I know this is the stats forum so we should be discussing AI applications to data and stats. But since the model is based on statistical principles I think we can discuss almost any application

Recently I have actually been trying to use it (mainly Chat GPT, am considering Claude) for some extremely complicated and serious personal and professional counselling matters. I hate to sound disrespectful to another associated profession of mine but it is like a poorly trained second rate counsellor using templte advice. LLM not AI

I feel they have lost their way in the interpersonal space. Trying to get it to be more human and not just reframe everything out of a book. The whole point of an AI/LLM best friend is that they are on your side or at least talk to you like a mate

Sorry folks

But to be fair it happily took my criticism on board and continued :)

and it has helped me write a few useful scripts without me having to learn new APIs