'Centaur AI': Predicting human choices with unprecedented accuracy
A new AI called Centaur, built by researchers in Munich, can predict what people will do in all kinds of situations with a noteworthy level of accuracy.
Trained on over 10 million decisions from thousands of real people, Centaur even beats older models and handles scenarios it's never seen before.
How does it work?
Centaur runs on Meta's Llama 3.1 tech and was fine-tuned using a huge psychology dataset.
It figures out common decision-making patterns and adapts to whatever's happening.
Interestingly, its inner workings end up looking a lot like how our brains process choices—even though it wasn't trained with brain data.
Potential applications and concerns
Centaur could help researchers understand human behavior or test ideas about mental health—kind of like having a virtual lab for the mind.
But as AI gets better at reading us, there are big questions about privacy and how all this should be used responsibly.