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1 points by fishfl 5 hours ago

We’ve built AI that writes poetry, drives cars, and even diagnoses diseases. Yet somehow, modeling human behavior—the thing we’ve been studying for centuries—is still "largely unexplored"? That’s not just ironic, it’s embarrassing.

This paper called <Be.FM: Open Foundation Models for Human Behavior> which I readed recently steps into this gap. A foundation model trained on behavioral data? Yes, it can predict decisions, infer traits, even generate context insights. But here’s the unsettling part: we’re handing over the keys to understanding people to machines before we’ve fully figured it out ourselves.

Think about it. Behavioral science has always been messy, full of contradictions and "it depends" answers. Now, an AI can crunch data and spit out predictions—clean, cold, and uncomfortably accurate. Does that excite you, or terrify you? Because it should do both.

The real question isn’t whether this works. It’s whether we’re ready for what happens when it does. What if it understands your biases better than your therapist? We’re not just building tools anymore. We’re building mirrors.