A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real users

Re:A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real... by voakbasda on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:25PM (#34395232)

I believe in the singularity, so I guess I meant to say AGI. Such an AI will learn to be a therapist the same way that we do. Even if it’s only as smart as a human, I would trust it more than a human.

Because, yeah, I don’t trust humans to program an AI that I could ever trust, unless the model and training data are all made fully available for independent analysis.

Tweaking the model would be telling it to favor certain paradigms over others.

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Re:A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real... by x86x87 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:46PM (#34395378)

If (and it's a huge if) we ever get AGI we're either 1) screwed and the machines will remeber us like we remember cave people - ie footnote in the history "books" or 2) we will have a human + machine symbiosis where the AI will literally remove all out flaws.

Either way, therapy will be useless. Also, IMHO we are at least 500 years from anything that resembles AGI - if it ever happens.

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