Loneliness, Dependence, and the Digital Heart: AI Chatbots & the Digital Age

In this episode of our AI-focused season, SHIFTERLABS uses Google LM to unravel the groundbreaking research “How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Study”conducted by researchers from the MIT Media Lab and OpenAI. Over a span of 28 days and 300,000+ messages exchanged, 981 participants were immersed in conversations with ChatGPT…