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New MIT Study: GPT-4V Can Predict Your Brain’s Response to Social Situations
A new study proved a machine without feelings can now “read a room” with terrifying accuracy. Seriously. Here’s the breakdown of how they did it.
We’ve all been in that situation. You walk into a room, and you can just feel the tension. No one’s yelling, but the body language, the quiet glances, the way someone holds their coffee cup… it all screams “something is wrong.”
This is social perception. It’s our human superpower. It’s the subtle, unspoken language we use to navigate everything from first dates to boardroom meetings. It’s messy, intuitive, and something we’ve always thought was uniquely human.
Well, think again.
A new research paper just landed from a team in Finland and China, and it’s one of those quiet breakthroughs that should be making huge waves. The paper, titled “GPT-4V shows human-like social perceptual capabilities at phenomenological and neural levels,” basically confirms that OpenAI’s vision model, GPT-4V, has gotten insanely good at reading the room.
Not just recognizing objects in a picture, but understanding the vibe. The dynamics. The human element.
