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A VC the other day told us consumers "obviously don't care about trust." 😂 Imagine thinking people don't need to trust their tech... "The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27." @AloeInc started out as a consumer company, but we pivoted because we faced reality: none of the existing models were trustworthy enough. Now we've built a science-grounded stack already outperforming the largest frontier models on the benchmarks that matter for trust. At a fraction of the compute cost 😎

Yesterday's panel by @Vancity/@FrontierBC on "The AI Question: What do we actually want from it and who gets to decide?" -- moderated by Gurpreet Jhaj, with @GaryMarcus, @MadisonMills22 (@axios), and @arunbahl (@AloeInc) -- cut right to the heart of the question of how humans will exert or hand over our agency in this technological transition. Closing remark couldn't have put a finer point on it: Gurpreet: "What is one thing you want the founders and investors in this room to do differently when it comes to AI starting today?" Arun: "You still have a lot of choice. The other machine that directs our behavior is the economy. Yet humans can exercise their decision making, and build things in line with their own values. So do that."

@JulienBek Judgement is a function of critical thinking. Giving a machine judgement requires building in calibrated confidence and metacognition. This is what we’ve done at @AloeInc with a self-aware flywheel that closes its own knowledge gaps.

@sharongoldman @summeryue0 @PeterDiamandis @nikunj @shyamalanadkat @levie @bretgreenstein @yshoham Trust requires knowing the agent has access to good information, can think critically, and shares the user’s interests. OpenClaw started to get at info/interests, but it has no critical thinking. Critical thinking is the next huge unlock toward agents we can trust. 🫡

Yes, let’s!

@JonhernandezIA @EMostaque State-of-the-art UX includes the effects of your tech being used at scale. What OpenAI is doing is business as usual: extract attention. Exploit the customer by making them the product. There is a better way… @AloeInc builds for humans to take back control.

Selling ads as a biz model is fundamentally misaligned with user interests — it undermines trust. How ya gonna trust AI that’s motivated to sell you stuff? At @AloeInc user trust is the primary goal ➡️ some biz models are off the table. Proudly. For the good of our species.

It was a pleasure speaking with @PuckNews' A.I. correspondent @IKrietzberg about how @AloeInc's AI leapt ahead to state-of-the-art – and in doing so ushered in the “Dawn of the Self-Building A.I.” We’ve taken a fundamentally different approach to AI because we are a fundamentally different kind of company: designed from the ground up to support human minds, not exploit them for their attention. We believe this is a prerequisite for AI we can trust.

@GaryMarcus @nytimes Spot on. @AloeInc proved exactly this a few weeks ago - a neurosymbolic system, designed and coded by @arunbahl, a cognitive scientist turned AI researcher (like @GaryMarcus!) - made a dramatic leap in capability over OpenAI et al on the GAIA benchmark for generalist agents.

Critical convo to be having right now @StevenBartlett @DocAmen @sejnowski 🧠We are building @AloeInc from similar insights - knowing that a human’s clarity of thought will be our defining characteristic in the near future. AI that helps us think - rather than replaces our thinking - is critical for our species’ future.

“Evolutionary rather than revolutionary”… 😅 Except the revolution was happening where no one was looking - @AloeInc created an AI that literally builds itself. First shot - easily leapfrogged the (now formerly) dominant players on the GAIA benchmark (ie tasks similar to day to day knowledge worker) @GaryMarcus @slavov_n @DavidSacks Kudos to the cognitive scientist/AI researcher @arunbahl for never being swayed by the hype and just building constantly from first principles.

Do you want a chatbot to create an echo chamber of flattery for you? Or would you rather have an AI interface that helps you deepen your own thinking and creativity? @Mappletons 🎯

Aloe builds itself. We are now state-of-the-art on the GAIA benchmark of generalist AIs, beating OpenAI, Manus, and Genspark by a wide margin. How? Like other AIs, Aloe uses tools. Unlike other AIs, if Aloe doesn't have the right tool for the job, it creates a new one first. This is composable program synthesis, and it's a new species of AI (we nicknamed it 𝘈𝘭𝘰𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴): when one Aloe increases its capability, they all get more capable together as they share tools and use them to create even better tools. Aloe’s lead over other systems is highest on the most difficult scenarios - there’s plenty of headroom to expand. We are just getting started – this is the floor of what we can do.

Absolutely nailed it @om: "However, in this new AI-first internet era, AI is your attention manager. So how does Meta translate its past business model of “capture and monetize attention” to “optimize and enhance attention?” The attention economy business model of “endless scroll for ad revenue” fundamentally breaks in the new AI reality." This is why @arunbahl and I started @AloeInc - we fundamentally want to help people reclaim their agency - by equipping them with superhuman attention - and we are certain that the companies that built the Distraction Economy have 0% credibility toward that goal.

"Those algorithms are designed, and the incentives are perhaps not aligned to the user...so for anything that people can get addicted to — and there’s a monetary incentive for them to get addicted to it — it will happen." We can - and will - do better. Great insights @kylascan + @ezraklein! We are building the Post-Distraction-Economy AI for you - and everyone else who's realized the value of taking back control over their own attention - over here at Aloe✨

@TheInnerViewTRT @RubenLaukkonen Bingo!

.@RubenLaukkonen says AI doesn’t just need a sharp mind, it needs wisdom and a deep understanding of reality. But how does a machine gain wisdom? Watch the full episode: youtu.be/VWr_4fpfJpc?si… #TheInnerView #ImranGarda #artificalintelligence

We couldn’t agree more.

The distraction economy has been a Bad Thing for our species, full stop. We’re building a better way at Aloe. Tech that helps, not hijacks your attention. Appreciating @parmy’s perspective in @business bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…