2024 is starting well

Mozilla’s AI guide looks very nice!

• Unlike other guides, this one is designed to help pick the right model for whatever task you’re trying to do, by:
  • teaching you how to always remain on the bleeding edge of published AI research
  • broadening your perspective on current open options for any given task
  • not be tied to a closed-source / closed-data large language model (ex OpenAI, Anthropic)
  • creating a data-led system for always identifying and using the state-of-the-art (SOTA) model for any particular task.

Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots

• Sam Zaia created it for himself when his friends were busy and he needed, in his words, “someone or something” to talk to, and human therapy was too expensive. Sam has been so surprised by the success of the bot that he is working on a post-graduate research project about the emerging trend of AI therapy and why it appeals to young people. Character.ai is dominated by users aged 16 to 30.