Jan. 4, 2025
Well folks, here we are again. January 4th, 2025, and my head feels like it’s being crushed in a vice while some tech journalist is telling us that AI can now solve our drinking problems. Pass the aspirin.
Let me tell you something about sobriety apps - they’re about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when you’re staring down that bottle of Jack at 2 AM. But apparently, the latest thing is getting life advice from the same technology that keeps trying to convince me that hot dogs are sandwiches.
Dec. 17, 2024
Listen, I’ve been staring at this MIT study for the past three hours, nursing my fourth bourbon, trying to make sense of why anyone would want to spill their guts to a chatbot. But here we are, living in a world where 150 million Americans can’t get proper mental health care, so they’re turning to whatever digital shoulder they can cry on.
The real kick in the teeth? These AI shrinks are actually pretty good at their job. According to some fancy research involving Reddit posts and professional shrinks (who probably charge more per hour than I make in a week), GPT-4 is 48% better at getting people to change their behavior than actual humans. That’s like finding out your local dive bar’s mechanical bull gives better relationship advice than your buddies.