{"id":828,"date":"2025-01-08T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2025-01-08T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:10:26","slug":"building-a-better-teddy-bear-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/building-a-better-teddy-bear-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cbuilding a better teddy bear\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created a cybernetic teddy bear; something that helps to sustain an illusion of conversation that people can use in order to facilitate the well-known psychological fact that putting your thoughts into words and trying to explain them to someone else is a good way to think and have ideas. (That this would be a big use case ought to have been obvious to anyone who knew the history of ELIZA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I genuinely don\u2019t know how revolutionary this might be, even if this is all there is to it. A machine that doesn\u2019t get bored listening to you could be an incredible boost to a lot of people. It\u2019s actually quite hopeful in my view; although it is nowhere near as science fictional and glam as \u201cAGI\u201d, this could be a very relevant use case\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/building-a-better-teddy-bear\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/building-a-better-teddy-bear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created a cybernetic teddy bear; something that helps to sustain an illusion of conversation that people can use in order to facilitate the well-known psychological fact that putting your thoughts into words and trying to explain them to someone else is a good way to think and have ideas. (That this would be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}