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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by ALittleLight on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:47PM (#20718978)
Business idea: Machine learning drives a realistic video and audio avatar of a human therapist to ask occasional "How does that make you feel" type questions.

As part of the session the therapist asks you to rate a few different categories of your mental life (e.g. "How content are you with your life/relationships/family/future on a scale of 1 to 5?) The ratings then can be used for data to develop better questions and techniques and marketing claims (people with 1 or more Virtual Therapy seasons a week experience an X% improvement in indicators of mental health).

Subscription model: 10 bucks a month gets two one hour virtual therapy sessions a week.

Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by vageli on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:53PM (#20719050)
This concept is explored in ELIZA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_(video_game)

Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by dllthomas on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:54PM (#20719056)
Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by hindsightbias on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:12AM (#20722227)