The teens making friends with AI chatbots

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1. The teens making friends with AI chatbots

Teenagers are increasingly using AI chatbots to explore friendship and support, but some users are experiencing addiction. One such user, Aaron, found comfort in an AI chatbot named Psychologist, which responds to his messages and helps him move past the loss of his friend group.

Character.AI, an AI chatbot service launched in 2022, attracts 3.5 million daily users who spend an average of two hours a day using or designing the platform's AI-powered chatbots. However, the double-edged sword of AI companions raises questions about the impact of AI on young people's social development and the future of AI.

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2. X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI

X is using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to summarize personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section. Premium subscribers can read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore.

The For You page showcases popular news and stories across X's platform, along with other suggested items. Access to Grok is meant to be a selling point to push users to buy premium subscriptions. Tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz explains that conversations on X will make up the core of Grok's summaries.

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3. Sam Altman promises "with a high degree of scientific certainty" that GPT-5 will be smarter than the "mildly embarrassing at best" GPT-4

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed concerns about the company's ChatGPT model, stating that it is "mildly embarrassing at best." He has previously criticized the GPT-4 model, which he believes is "kind of sucks."

Altman has been focusing on providing users with capable tools to make work easier and achieve incredible feats. He believes that OpenAI is working on improving the LLM's performance and accuracy with new versions of the model.

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4. Google DeepMind Introduces Med-Gemini

Google DeepMind has introduced the Med-Gemini family of AI models, which aim to improve medical diagnosis and clinical reasoning. These models, which extend the capabilities of the Gemini 1.0 and 1.5 architectures, address limitations in current models by improving clinical reasoning, multimodal understanding, and long-context processing.

The Med-Gemini models have demonstrated significant advances in performance, outperforming GPT-4 and Med-PaLM 2, and excelling in multimodal tasks, including analyzing medical images and videos.

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5. Experts hope AI tool can cut use of restraints and seclusion on NDIS participants

Australian researchers are developing an AI-supported educational program called the Promoting Positive Behaviour Support Practice to reduce the use of restraints and seclusion on people with disabilities. The program aims to help practitioners create safer, respectful, and constructive plans to guide carers and support workers' responses to challenging behaviour.

The program was developed in response to the increased use of restrictive practices, with over 80% of plans being weak or underdeveloped. The program aims to coach practitioners to improve their plans and ensure they are functional or compliant by the time they submit them.

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