Co-Founder of millionways, the frontier lab for behavioral intelligence. Building Thorsten, the first Large Psychology Model that helps AI read the room.
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Joined March 2022
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Language models learned to predict words. Thorsten-4 learned to predict people.
Built on years of real human behavior, it maps how someone communicates to 50 behavioral traits. Ask it the same question twice and you get the same read.
Check it out in the link below.
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AI might be getting its biggest psychology upgrade yet.
millionways just introduced Thorsten-4, a model trained to understand human behaviour.
We're talking 15+ years of psychology research, 7,000+ people interviewed, and 35 million words analysed by researchers.
It's designed to understand what motivates people, how they make decisions and how they're likely to react.
The company reports 90% validated accuracy...
And you can plug it into existing AI agents.
Imagine what this could mean for AI handling sales calls, interviews and customer conversations.
Max Weidemann retweeted
AI can understand your words. But can it understand YOU?
That’s what @millionwaysai is tackling with Thorsten-4, a Large Psychology Model built on 15+ years of research, 7,000+ human interviews, and 35M+ words analyzed by psychologists.
It helps AI understand human motives, decisions, and reactions, with 90% validated accuracy, according to millionways.
And the best part? It works with the AI tools you already use.
This could be a major step toward AI that truly understands people.
Explore Thorsten-4: bit.ly/4BvIQQL
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Max Weidemann retweeted
Brilliant release and this is such a different kind of AI.
@millionwaysai launched Thorsten-4 today, AI that reads people’s motives
Every AI company trains on the same internet, and the internet doesn’t record why people do what they do.
So the AI agents now running sales calls, job interviews and customer service keep misreading people, and each misread costs a dea.
> Thorsten-4 is built on 15+ years of psychology research that started long before ChatGPT,
> 50+ trained psychologists interviewed 7,000+ people repeatedly over 4 years (from an 8-year-old to billionaires),
> hand-tagged 35M+ words from those conversations, and checked the model’s predictions against what people actually did.
It’s a Large Psychology Model that lets AI read the person behind the words, predicting their motives, decision style and likely reactions with 90% validated accuracy.
AI agents now run sales calls, job interviews, and negotiations, but they miss the hesitation and pushback that decide how those conversations end, like the doubt behind a prospect’s “sounds great”.
LLMs were built to read words, not people, and 10 leading AI models fall about 45% short of humans at tracking how a person’s thoughts and feelings change over time.
They also cave easily, since leading AI models flip a correct answer 46% of the time when a user pushes back.
Thorsten-4 reads the conversations companies already have (meetings, interviews, emails, chats and support calls) and scores each person on 50 behavioral and psychological traits, showing what drives them, how they decide and how they react under stress.
Its training data can’t be scraped off the internet, because 50+ trained psychologists interviewed 7,000+ people again and again over 4 years and hand-tagged 35M+ words from those conversations.
The team then checked the model’s predictions against established psychology tests and against what those people actually did over several years.
Every read is explainable and traces back to the evidence behind it, and Thorsten-4 holds its read when a user pushes back.
Companies plug it into the AI tools they already use, so their agents know when to push, when to pause and how to adapt.
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🤝 Paid partnership
Max Weidemann retweeted
Today in @semafor: a closer look at millionways and Thorsten-4.
semafor.com/article/11/11/20…
Max Weidemann retweeted
AI can talk. It still can't understand people.
Meet Thorsten-4: a Large Psychology Model, built on 15+ years of human research. It predicts how people think, decide and act.
Finally, AI will be able to read the room.
Max Weidemann retweeted
AI can write code, pass the bar exam and sound human.
It still can’t tell when you’re unsure, holding back or about to walk away.
Today we’re introducing Thorsten-4, a Large Psychology Model that predicts what people will do next.
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🎙 New Podcast! Watch: youtu.be/DKXZoUktZqE
Can #AI have emotional intelligence? @cordsmeier and @MaxIntolerator of millionways join the #podcast to discuss #GenerativeAI and emotionally-intelligent AI plus:
➡ AI ethics and AI bias
➡ Slowing down AI development
➡ Generative AI vs scientific AI
