Intro to AI in Forensic Psychology

is AI? I think at this stage, there's two ways to approach defining AI.

And I'm going to let Ben or Heath actually give the more polished definition of when we as a group talk about AI, what we mean.

But there were like earlier versions of artificial intelligence.

which is what some people get stuck on.

And then there's another way to define AI, which is like what it isn't.

You know, I've heard, especially in our community, an interest in referring to AI is like a search engine.

And that is not what it is, especially the kind of artificial intelligence we're going to be talking about today.

So I just wanted to put that out there to help people get anchored to the concept generally.

I agree.

There are different types of AI.

AI can be used for a lot of different things, analysis, ranking, classification, etc.

But generally, when we're talking about AI within our group, what we're always referring to is generative AI, which is sort of a subtype of AI.

And in this case, generative AI is artificial intelligence that's actually generative.

It's generating something new.

And that could be text, it could be images, it could be video, it could be music.

There's all sorts of things that it might be generating.

But for the purposes of our talks and the things that we're really focusing on, especially as it relates to the practice of forensic psychology, it's the generative AI that we're discussing.

So sometimes we'll have people say, well, you know, I have a smart toaster.

Does that somehow relate to this? And I would say, no, it does not.

That's not at all what we're discussing here.

So usually what we're talking about It's these large language models, some of the foundational models, and that might be something like Cloud from Anthropic or Gemini from Google or ChatGPT from OpenAI or Grok from XAI, etc.

And we're also talking about the different AI companies or platforms that have based their service, their company on these larger foundational models and how they're using them in various applications and how we might be then considering those in a practice of psychology.

Okay, so I get that it's not a search engine and it's not a toaster.

I feel like I've got the floor.

And so there's something generative about it, right? You've used that word.