Business News – January 11, 2025

1 – After a 2-hour interview, Google can make an AI that thinks and acts like you (refers to the process of creating an artificial intelligence (AI) system that emulates an individual's unique characteristics.)

BGR. January 9, 2025

Imagine distilling a person’s personality, opinions, and decision-making style into an AI replica. This concept isn’t science fiction—it’s the foundation of a groundbreaking study by Stanford University and Google DeepMind. Researchers crafted AI copies of over 1,000 participants using info gleaned from two-hour interviews.

The project sought to create AI agents that could mimic human behavior. Participants were recruited by the market research firm Bovitz and paid $60 to engage with an AI interviewer. Each interview began with reading lines from The Great Gatsby to calibrate the audio system.

Then, over the course of two hours, participants discussed a range of topics, including politics, family, job stress, and social media. These conversations produced detailed transcripts averaging 6,491 words, which became the foundation for training the AI replicas.

The results were impressive. When tested on social surveys like the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Big Five Personality Inventory (BFI), the AI replicated 85 percent of the participants’ responses. However, accuracy faltered in economic decision-making tasks like the Prisoner’s Dilemma, where AI alignment with human behavior dropped to around 60 percent.

Still, the potential applications here are vast. Policymakers and businesses could use AI simulations to predict public reactions to new policies or products. Why rely on focus groups or repeated polling when an AI replica of your constituent could offer insights based on a single, detailed conversation?

The researchers believe this technology could help explore societal structures, pilot interventions, and develop nuanced theories about human behavior. However, these advancements come with their own risks.

Ethical concerns loom over the misuse of AI replicas. Bad actors could exploit AI like this to manipulate public opinions, impersonate individuals, or simulate public will based on synthetic data. These concerns only further raise overall concerns about the rise of these models and how AI might affect humanity’s future.

2 - Well, Well, It Looks Like Mark Zuckerberg’s Wardrobe and Morals Both Got a Lil’ MAGA Rebrand

Vanity Fair. January 8, 2025

First, Mark Zuckerberg dropped the “the” from Facebook (it’s cleaner) and we said nothing—partly because he was a college student and most of the world didn’t know about the social networking startup. Then, he ditched the signature dark gray Brunello Cucinelli t-shirt he’d adopted as a daily uniform (an update on his earlier go-to of zip-up hoodie and flip-flops) and started wearing chains and posting shirtless UFC thirst traps, and we said nothing. Now, Zuckerberg has pledged $1 million from Meta to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund and announced that Facebook is going to ditch its fact-checking program and rely on community members to police one another, a technique that, wow, has really not worked out well in the past. It’s long past time to say something.

Zuckerberg’s transformation, both inner and outer, appears to be complete. Tech schlub be gone: Mark’s a MAGA Guy now.

What happened to the guy who, at a Facebook town hall event in 2014, explained that he wore the same thing every day because, “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.” He said that small decisions like choosing an outfit, for example, “kind of make you tired and consume your energy. And my view is, I’m in this really lucky position where I get to wake up every day and help serve more than a billion people. I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life.”

Things can change

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Episode 3784 - Jan 12 - Tiếng Anh - Tin Kinh doanh – Ngày 11 tháng 1, 2025 - Vina Technology at AI time