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  • How Members of Congress Get SO Rich (Video 14mins)

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  • Just the headline had me saying trade fraud. Oh and piles and piles up on piles next to piles of cash from lobbiest.

  • An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism

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  • The article:

    A specialized chatbot named Noora is helping individuals with autism spectrum disorder practice their social skills on demand.

    Knowing what to say when co-workers tell you about their weekend is a social skill that many take for granted, but for some individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), this social interaction can be challenging. Struggling to find the correct response in social situations like these can negatively impact social and professional relationships for people with ASD, and can worsen co-occurring conditions like depression.

    Research has shown that practicing social interactions with professionals in a clinical face-to-face intervention can improve outcomes for individuals, but these solutions are often costly or not widely available. Lynn Koegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, in collaboration with Professor Monica Lam from Stanford’s Computer Science Department, are the authors of recent research published by the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders that investigates the role of AI in filling this gap.

    “Our research has shown that face-to-face work does help with social conversation … so we wanted to see if we could translate that into computer use,” said Koegel. “Accessibility is really important because a lot of people don't have access to a face-to-face provider and the providers can be really expensive.”

    Introducing Noora In this work, funded in part by a seed grant from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Kind World Foundation, Koegel and colleagues evaluated interactions between participants with ASD who struggle with social interactions and Noora, a chatbot built with a large language model (LLM).

    In one-on-one interactions, which can be written or spoken, Noora offers individualized guidance on a number of social communication scenarios; it helps users learn to ask questions, give compliments, respond empathically, and with other areas of social communication that are often challenging.

    In this recent work, Koegel focused on the impact of Noora's empathy module. The chatbot first offers a leading statement, such as “I’m feeling really tired lately and it’s been so hard to concentrate,” and then asks the user to assess whether the statement is positive, neutral, or negative. Noora will then grade this response and ask the user to respond empathically to the initial statement. Based on whether the user successfully responds with empathy, Noora either offers a gentle correction or validates a correct response.

    The research team carefully crafted prompts with representative examples to ensure that the answers are appropriate. To interact with users, Noora needed to know three things: what kind of statements warrant an empathic response, how to assess whether a user has responded empathetically, and how to offer a user helpful feedback to improve the response if it lacked empathy.

    To craft leading statements, the team exposed Noora to “golden” responses and to inappropriate responses. The team both wrote responses themselves and used the LLM to write other responses that they then verified, creating a pool of 330 statements designed to elicit empathetic responses from participants. This means that Noora was never creating leading statements on the fly, which could have potentially led to inappropriate questions.

    When it came to responding live to users' empathetic responses, Noora had freer rein. Taking advantage of the LLM’s abilities for in-context learning, the team simulated users' personalities and had Noora practice responding to users that showed varying levels of empathy. They also selected difficult cases and provided feedback for Noora to learn from.

    An example of the NOORA interface and a sample of an interaction.

    Putting Noora to the Test To see how well Noora stacked up against treatment as usual, Koegel, Lam, and colleagues conducted a randomized trial with 30 participants in which half were assigned to use Noora for four weeks and half received no intervention. Participants using Noora were asked to complete 10 trials per day, five days a week for a total of 200 trials.

    Ultimately, Koegel said, the team was looking to evaluate whether Noora could improve users’ empathetic responses and if improvements could be generalized to show empathy in human-to-human communication as well.

    “There's a lot of AI research out there that shows that the ASD students improve using a program, but doesn’t show that it generalizes to real life,” said Koegel. “So that was our main goal.”

    Comparing responses from the start of the experiment to the end, Koegel said that 71 percent of participants improved their number of empathetic responses when using Noora.

    To see whether this progress could generalize, the team had participants take part in a Zoom call with a team member before and after the experiment, which included leading empathic statements. When reassessed after the intervention, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group with an average increase of 38 percent, while the control groups pre- and post-scores were similar. This shows that just four weeks of using the AI program significantly improved verbal empathetic responses.

    With this success under Noora's belt, Koegel and Lam are now interested in testing the effectiveness of other modules as well. They’re also working to open Noora for beta testing for public use and in clinical settings.

    Beyond Noora, Koegel said she’s also incorporating AI into other aspects of her autism research as well, including motivational treatment for children with ASD who are in the beginning stages of using communication.

    “I'd like to take a lot of the work that I've done over the decades that's face-to-face and see how much we can translate to AI,” said Koegel. “Since kids really like the computer, we want to see if instead of just spending time on their computer or iPhone we can create a learning experience.”

  • Energy drinks to be banned for under-16s in England

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  • They won't for much longer =\

  • F-Droid @lemmy.ml
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    Slow packages?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Love me a good BLT

  • DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to 'vulnerable' cloud server, says whistleblower

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  • ...bruh

  • Modern Windows in a nutshell

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  • Download pro, during install before setting initial account: shift+f10 (may have to hold fn key if laptop). When the cmd box opens type oobe\bypassnro hit enter an PC reboots. Disconnect networking. Say I don't have internet. Now you can do local accounts.

  • If you've recovered from depression, what did it feel like?

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  • Hey, hang in there. Keep searching. I'm still on the journey. I'm over 40 and recently diagnosed with ADHD and some form of bipolar/manic stuff.

    Finally found a good head doc, meds etc. up until this, it was a slow but increasing downward spiral. I just became apathetic....to existence.

    At work, I constantly felt imposter syndrome, couldn't stay focused. Any minor mistake felt like the world was ending. At home, minor family drama felt like I was a complete failure as a husband, father and an adult.

    Now? Most of all that is fading away. Still a ways to go but hope is in sight. I've began to recognize things that would have put me in a dark place. Now it mostly rolls off me.

    So, to answer your question: It feels like every little mistake, insecurity etc is nothing more than a memory of shit that got to me. It's a sorta weird poetic justice. Like seeing a bully get out in their place.

    Edit: I'm sure you have but get some blood work done. Hormones, and Vitamin D levels. I've been struggling with vitamin D for a while now. It absolutely will cause issues if too low. It's an "easy" fix with simple supplements. None of this is quick. Takes a few weeks generally to even begin to notice. But in time you should.

  • More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county. August is on track to be hottest on record, with temperatures hitting at least 110F (43C) nearly every day.

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  • Where I used to live, temps at night would be around that temp. Sucks.

  • Super Grover enters the MCU

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  • The power creep in the MCU is already bonkers. We can't go and add him. We don't have any villains to challenge the Super.

  • My mop and its new fresh cut

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  • Mid at best

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    My mop and its new fresh cut

  • Tech Support Memes @lemmy.ca
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    "Can ya fix it?" Bruh...

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    Hughes.net?

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  • Former hughes repair guy here. If it's your only choice, sure. But it's utter trash. It's susceptible to so many environmental conditions. Certain geographical areas can experience various service levels too. Data caps will sneak up on you faster than you realize too. Not to mention the pole or tripod mount that has to be installed, yard dug up and holes drilled into the house. Seen plenty of tripod mounts be ripped off a roof, damaging the roof in the process.

    Anyways...avoid any satellite isp if possible.

  • Former Biden, Obama spokespersons cash in on Gaza genocide - The Grayzone

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  • Just trying to scan my TPS reports

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  • It does, naps was a last ditch effort. Unfortunately the clients software requires twain support =\

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    terminhell @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Just trying to scan my TPS reports

  • What's your favourite meat that isn't chicken, beef, pork, or lamb?

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  • Mine was from one my dad killed in our yard. We then cooked it over bonfire that evening.

  • What's your favourite meat that isn't chicken, beef, pork, or lamb?

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  • Got to thinking, it's kinda like shrimp, but taste kinda like chicken. It's been like 15 years.

  • No more spoons ig

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  • Do gamers actually like the look of gaming computers and accessories?

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  • Can't remember =\ may have to reverse search it

  • Do gamers actually like the look of gaming computers and accessories?

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  • Generally I'm not a fan. Personally I like cold, unassuming industrial stuff.

    Something like

    OR

  • What's your favourite meat that isn't chicken, beef, pork, or lamb?

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  • Rattle snake is pretty good from what I can remember. Like chicken, but... different

  • US Congressmen praying inside the House of Representatives

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  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    terminhell @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Perfectly clear instructions HP