That is one bullshit headline. Forbes keeping the AI pump and dump scheme going.
TLDR: People correctly discerned that written responses were from an “AI” chatbot slightly less often than they correctly discerned that responses were from a psychotherapist.
“AI” cannot replace a therapist and hasn’t “won” squat.
Holy shit, thanks for saving us the click. Wtf
You’re doing the lord’s work 🫡
A bit disingenuous not to mention this part:
Further, participants in most cases preferred ChatGPT’s take on the matter at hand. That was based on five factors: whether the response understood the speaker, showed empathy, was appropriate for the therapy setting, was relevant for various cultural backgrounds, and was something a good therapist would say.
Patients explaining they liked what they heared - not if it is correct or relevant to the cause. There is not even a pipeline for escalation, because AIs don’t think.
Exactly. AI chatbot’s also cannot empathize since they have no self awareness.
You can’t say “Exactly” when you tl;dr’d and removed one of the most important parts of the article.
Your human summary was literally worse than AI 🤦
I’m getting downvoted, which makes me suspect people think I’m cheerleading for AI. I’m not. I’m sure it sucks compared to a therapist. I’m just saying that the tl;dr also sucked.
but it can give the illusion of empathy, which is far more important.
I don’t trust therapists, but I trust OpenAI with my mental state about 100x less.
Imitating a therapist is not too hard, look up Eliza. Was it good as an actual therapist? Haha, no.
Or Doctor Sbaitso.
Did they compete on providing actual therapy? No? Then this is meaningless.
From the study
Using different measures, we then confirmed that responses written by ChatGPT were rated higher than the therapist’s responses suggesting these differences may be explained by part-of-speech and response sentiment. This may be an early indication that ChatGPT has the potential to improve psychotherapeutic processes. We anticipate that this work may lead to the development of different methods of testing and creating psychotherapeutic interventions. Further, we discuss limitations (including the lack of the therapeutic context), and how continued research in this area may lead to improved efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions allowing such interventions to be placed in the hands of individuals who need them the most.
