Slingshot AI: Building a Model of the Mind

Part 4 of our "Healthcare in a Post-LLM World" series: Slingshot AI, founded by Daniel Reid Cahn and Neil Parikh, building a "Model of the Mind" to power an AI therapist, with a vision to help 1 billion people with their product. One of the most common emergent behaviors observed amongst users of generalist AI chatbots is therapy, but tuning an LLM for actual therapeutic benefit requires a deep specialist approach like what Slingshot is executing: "This is like the most obvious thing you could possibly work on. It's just insanely hard to actually achieve." We discuss how AI therapy will intersect with the traditional mental healthcare system, what Slingshot's cost-disruptive approach means for consumer access relative to existing cash pay and reimbursed options, and how super emotional responses (both positive and negative) from users is a beautiful thing.

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