ChatGPT Goes Analog, AI Therapy, and Better AI Dialogue

This week we explore OpenAI's new phone service for ChatGPT, the growing role of AI in mental health support, and a fresh approach to creating natural AI conversations.

This Week in AI: Updates That Matter

📞 Call ChatGPT Anytime!: OpenAI Unveils 1-800-CHATGPT for Free Conversations

You can now dial 1-800-CHATGPT in the US for a 15-minute chat with the AI, offering a new, accessible way to engage with the technology. This feature is designed to simplify the AI experience, making it easier for newcomers to explore its capabilities through familiar phone and WhatsApp channels.

Why it matters: This initiative breaks down barriers to AI interaction, paving the way for more users to experiment with and benefit from AI technology.
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Turns out, 'AI for everyone' was not the winning move

More AI everywhere doesn’t mean better results. Small teams of AI experts beat mass licenses. Attackers now use AI to run cybercrime at machine speed. Leaders can’t keep up. Tools still forget us. The winners? Focused expertise and hybrid AI, not AI everywhere.

Build AI · Dec 11 · 1 min

LLM-as-a-judge: the measurement problem

You've built something and you need to know if it works. So you do what's sensible—you ask an LLM to grade it. Factual accuracy, code quality, agent outputs. The machine judges the machine, and you get a number you can act on. Except that number

Understand AI · Dec 10 · 2 min

Tsinghua: focused AI expertise

Imagine you have a bunch of teams, some with AI, some without, and some where everyone gets their own AI. Researchers ran a big experiment with over 400 people to see what actually happens when you mix and match humans and AI in different ways. Here’s what they found: