{"id":169951,"date":"2023-08-18T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/googles-apparently-building-an-ai-that-tells-you-how-to-live-your-life"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:25:11","slug":"googles-apparently-building-an-ai-that-tells-you-how-to-live-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/googles-apparently-building-an-ai-that-tells-you-how-to-live-your-life","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-apparently-building-an-ai-that-tells-you-how-to-live-your-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.<\/p>\n<p>According to internal documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/16\/technology\/google-ai-life-advice.html\" class=\"\">obtained by <em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, Google and the Google-owned DeepMind AI lab are working with \u201cgenerative AI to perform at least 21 different types of personal and professional tasks.\u201d And among those tasks, apparently, is an effort to use generative AI to build a \u201clife advice\u201d tool. You know, because an inhuman AI model knows everything there is to know about navigating the complexities of mortal human existence.<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>NYT<\/em> points out, the news of the effort notably comes months after AI safety experts at Google said, back in just December, that users of AI systems could suffer \u201cdiminished health and well-being\u201d and a \u201closs of agency\u201d as the result of taking AI-spun life advice. The Google chatbot Bard, meanwhile, is barred from providing legal, financial, or medical advice to its users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI. According to internal documents obtained by The New York Times reports, Google and the Google-owned DeepMind AI lab are working with \u201cgenerative AI to perform at least 21 different types of personal and professional tasks.\u201d And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1495,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-health","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}