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I honestly prefer my AI therapist to the real one. Better in many ways and more knowledgable too. Maybe I have a bad therapist.

But maybe I have a bad girlfriend too.

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1 in 4 Americans said they'd prefer to talking to an AI chatbot over a human therapist. https://www.tebra.com/blog/research-perceptions-of-ai-in-hea...

Maybe you can convince a therapist to use the AI with you and fill some gaps? I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of hybrid approach would be useful in some situations.

Are you by chance also nonhuman? Because current "AI" has not basis for the context that is the human experience, nor emotions...

What? AI training material contains hundreds of gigabytes of text about the human experience and emotions.

Okay let's pretend chat bots have human level intelligence. Has there ever been a topic you read a lot about and went to go do something with it only to realize you had no idea what to do when something went wrong?

I sure have.

Reading something is not the same thing as doing it. Doing something is not the same thing as understanding it. Understanding something is at best a model for the essence of something.

Hegel has a great book on this. Recommended reading...

Just curious, where do you see an AI therapist? Is there a site or service that you like?

Probably something you can create for yourself using some basic prompt engineering on GPT-4 or even 3.5.

BUT...

Do I want to share sensitive info with an API? No. Llama 2 might be a better option but it's way more expensive to self-host a 70B L2.

i've been playing with gpt4all for localhost running chatbots, its amazing at how capable it is at such an early state. local LLMs 2 (to say nothing of say 5+) years from now will be much more refined, its early generative AI days.

This will all be quite interesting.

You can run 13B locally and it will do just fine.

> Llama 2 might be a better option but it's way more expensive to self-host a 70B L2.

It's free if you're okay with getting one character per second (and possibly melting your laptop).

Emacs to the rescue

You have a bad therapist.

And what if most available therapists are bad therapists?

That’s not true.

please share

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