I wanted to inform folks about a little artificial intelligence Cyborg Psychology app that Dr. Philipp Burckhardt (Director of e-Learning, Analytics, and Technology at CMU) has written with his father, Dr. Martin Burckhardt (the German Cultural theorist I work with and translate for), using off-the-shelf AI products. Unlike pure chat GPT applications, however, this is a mixtum: a carefully curated and staged event where nothing is left to chance (right down to the music, in which I also have a part).

Part of their purposes in constructing it is as an experiment to bring the common perceptions into relief of what artificial intelligence is and isn’t capable of, and – more specifically, how this technology can used as a prosthetically-assistive self-mirroring of our own self-understandings. It’s also demonstrating the degree of sophistication of what can be assembled using today’s off-the-shelf AI apps. If one takes this as an AI augmented personal assistant, it gives an idea how this can be useful in the field of education.

If anyone wants to check it out, the app can be found at: https://martinburckhardt.substack.com/p/psychologie-des-cyborgs

In two or three days there will be a little text about the making of on the ex nihilo blog

Also, Philipp can be contacted directly for questions about how it was constructed or the like at: https://www.philipp-burckhardt.com