My passion is helping people change what is possible. At work, that means what is possible within the constraints of time, budget, and staff while delivering on behalf of the mission and beyond the goals. In life, well just about anything! I have over 30 years of experience including roles as a developer and senior executive at start-ups, mid-size companies, and Forune 500 companies. My academic background is in symolic and statistical inference and I have incoroporated AI capabiliies into 5 software products. I am currently focused on applying my expertise to higher ed, ed tech, and health care organizations desiring to explore the use of AI in addressing their risks and opportunities.
In March of 2024, I published benchmarks comparing the empathetic capability of multiple LLMs. Over the past six months, significant advancements have been made, with new models emerging, such as upgrades...
This post was originally publcijed on Hackernoon, Spet 19th, 2024. OpenAI o1 came out just in time for me to add it to my 2024 Q3 benchmarks on AI empathy (to be published next week). The results for...
Introduction This post is a follow-up to Testing the Depths of AI Empathy: You Decide! (also publish on Hackernoon as Can Machines Really Understand Your Feelings? Evaluating Large Language Models for...
Introduction Have you really thought about empathy? What does empathy mean to you? Is your ability to judge empathy different from your ability to be empathetic? This article will challenge you to consider...
For several months https://embench.com has been tracking the empathetic capability of AI models and apps. Although it has not yet published the results, EmBench has already tested ChatGPT 4o. This testing...
After my posting regarding Hume, people reached out and asked for a similar comparison with Pi.ai. I was also asked to cover more scenarios and longer scenarios. Regarding the more scenarios, it is effectively...
The benchmarks in this article are the results of testing the empathetic capability of generative AI models using standard psychological and purpose built measures. Prior to presenting and analyzing the...
Shortly after I finished writing Testing the Extents of AI Empathy: A Nightmare Scenario, I came across the funding announcement for Hume. The last time I visited their site a few months ago, they did...
First, I'll acknowledge the clickbait. In this article I discuss how AIs respond to users saying they have nightmares. This is not an article about the AI Apocalypse. My previous posts have been process...
A search of Google Scholar for "empathetic ai" results in over 16,000 items since 2023. A search for phrases like "testing empathetic ai" and "evaluating empathetic ai" reduces this set to about 12,00...
