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‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No. It can’t. It’s programmed to mimic. Nothing more. It’s doing what its word prediction programs it to do. It follows no logic, and doesn’t care about anything including you.

This is just more evidence of how easily people can be manipulated.

[–] kromem 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not 'programmed' at all.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So… AI…. created itself?

[–] kromem 1 points 9 months ago

Pretty much. What's programmed is the mechanism for the model to self-supervise weighting its neural network to correctly model the training data.

We have next to no idea what the eventual network does in modern language models, and it certainly isn't programmed.