A new AI model wants to read between the lines
They see the model as particularly useful in sales and executive hiring, where a search firm could prompt it to evaluate an interview transcript to gauge how a candidate will behave under pressure.
Key points
- The Scoop New York-based AI startup millionways on Thursday launched its new AI model that claims to offer insight into human intent and motivations.
- Just this week, leading voice AI company ElevenLabs, for example, announced a healthcare-focused version of its new transcription model.
- This gives CIOs more choice and customization, but it also adds the burden of testing whether specialized models actually beat fast-improving frontier ones.
The Thorsten-4 model was born out of a research project in Germany in which dozens of psychologists interviewed more than 7,000 people about their personal lives and aspirations.
That data — which the psychologists labeled by hand to capture what people’s words revealed about their motives and thinking — was used to train the model.
Additional details
- Millionways cofounders Martin Cordsmeier and Max Weidemann argue that understanding is missing from regular AI models, which are trained on internet text.
- The company also told Semafor it has raised $6 million in US funding, with investors including football stars Jason Kelce and DK Metcalf.
- It (correctly) noted that my “unstated goal was source cultivation.”.
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