Tinglesbar incorporates ASMR into elementary school and doctor's visits simulations, offering a social haven for introverts. "It's time for your lice check," a woman who goes by "Ms. K" whispers directly into my ear as she starts running her fingers into my scalp and through each strand of hair. I'm in a dark room, Eastern flute music playing in the background as I sit across from my partner who's also having his hair caressed by a stranger. We close our eyes so we don't burst out laughing.

'I'm baffled how anyone could use AI to participate in a hobby.' 'I'm baffled how anyone could use AI to participate in a hobby.' I'm a committed introvert - but no AI will take away the joy I get from other people T his is depressing: according to the Cut, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of spoiling your own fun? "Like going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end," says one TikToker quoted in the article. There's also an interview with a keen reader who uses ChatGPT as a book club replacement, scraping the internet and aggregating "stimulating opinions and perspectives". All well and good (actually, no, it sounds bleak as hell) until he had a character's death spoilered in the fantasy epic he had been enjoying.

Finding a job can often prove to be a full-time responsibility in and of itself. Whether you're seeking employment or recruiting workers to join your ranks, the time lost finding the ideal candidate can often translate to reduced productivity, which can also mean less money in your pocket and more stress. To level the playing field in a time when virtually everything else is already being automated, startup Opportunity has become the first networking site to integrate artificial intelligence into its platform. Utilizing the advanced technology to streamline many filters companies often search for, the hiring platform screens for personality, previous work, skill sets, location and other such requirements, refining the way companies and prospective employees connect. To understand how radically new hiring practices might emerge due to these powerful algorithms, PSFK sat down in an exclusive interview with the company's CEO and Co-founder Janis Krums.

A machine that can handle basic tasks -- think the self-service checkout at Walmart or an ATM machine -- is a better option for one particular segment of the population. That's right -- introverts already know the benefits of machine learning. Full disclosure here: I have not paid a human for gas in about eight years. There have been a few times when I go into the gas station, but it's always to scour around for donuts or to find the restroom. A few friends and relatives are in the same boat.

I've been around AI assistants for several years now, whether it's Siri or Google or Alexa or Cortana, and I've voluntarily spoken to these assistants less than 5 times. That last bullet point would place me in the vague psychological basket of "introverts," a group that I think will increasingly prove challenging for AI assistants and the humans who program them. The technology giants of the world are all moving in unison towards a vision of voice- and gesture-driven interactions with artificially intelligent butlers who know their human masters' preferences and provide quick, accurate, and personalized assistance. For example, as I'm typing this on my Windows 10 laptop, there's a message from Cortana at the bottom of my screen beckoning me to "Ask her anything." Well, I'm afraid you're going to be waiting a long time to hear from me, Cortana, because I am happily alone right now and feel no need to involve someone else in what I'm doing.

I can be loud at times, and I'm not shy, so a lot of people assume that I'm an extrovert. When I explain this to people, they ask me, "Well, if you're such an introvert, why are you talking to a group of strangers in an elevator? This is a social interaction that you initiated and could have easily avoided." I just shake my head at how misunderstood the word "introvert" is these days. For example, people think that if you're an introvert, you don't like parties.

I think the idea of designing robots that look like humans to better interact with humans is a solid "meh." The concept is good, but the execution is usually horrible, and the more your robot tries to look like a human, the more horrible it gets. Having said that, I think that the idea of using robots with specific human features, like eyes, can be a substantial asset for human-robot interaction, if you know what you're doing. Sean Andrist, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (who knows what he's doing), has been researching social gaze with robots. He's developed algorithms that help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways.

Estimation of a person's influence and personality traits from social media data has many applications. We use social linkage criteria, such as number of followers and friends, as proxies to form corpora, from popular blogging site Livejournal, for examining two two-class classification problems: influential vs. non-influential, and extraversion vs. introversion. Classification is performed using automatically-derived psycholinguistic and mood-based features of a user's textual messages. We experiment with three sub-corpora of 10000 users each, and present the most effective predictors for each category. The best classification result, at 80%, is achieved using psycholinguistic features; e.g., influentials are found to use more complex language, than non-influentials, and use more leisure-related terms.