As a computer scientist working in the industry I was amazed you even considered substituting human psychotherapy for AI-therapist. Seeing AI developments in last two years I thought of human psychoterapy as the safest job (least replacible) you could imagine.
Thank you for your comment. I wouldn't personally advise AI therapy at present or in the forseeable futur at it has many many flaws. But AI is the catalyst of numerous fantasies of people including replacing therapy. Even if I remain skeptical about the potential of AI to someday provide same process as a human. I do think people involved with it may try. Anyway thanks again and have a great day!
Everything you say is true and meaningful AI therapy is likely many decades away. But it has enticing potential also - AI learned to model human speech by analyzing exorbitant amounts of natural language, not by reading a dictionary. To an AI, words exist as clouds of weighted potentials, reminiscent of the symbols in our minds. This makes me somewhat hopeful, that at some point, much more advanced systems, might be able to model the psycho-dynamic origins of our emotions instead of language. Provided we find a way to feed it millions of hours of recorded therapy sessions as training data. And, like you said - to be of any therapeutic use, these systems need to provide the possibility for human attachment. But I don't think that's impossible. Our experience already taught us to trust computer records more than our own memory. If, one day, we find ourselves surrounded by AI assistants that demonstrate insight and benevolence , we will learn to trust them too.
Thank you for your comment. It is completely possible that AI will eventually be capable of such a feet as doing psychodynamic therapy but I do think that it would be very different from the way we do it now as there is creativity in human minds that is idiosyncratic and highly personal as such AI wouldn't be able to achieve that. I believe however that it will know infinitely more that any human and as such might come to more 'complete' approach ( integrating psychoanalysis, psychology, medicine, anthropology... into a coherent whole). And also we would need to fix the 'hallucination' issue. But I guess only the future will tell for sure. Anyway thanks for your comment and have a great day.
By the way Johnathan shedler the well known psycho dynamic therapist and researcher said that psychoanalysis is the most immune therapeutic modality to being replaced by Ai, and that cbt and other skills training therapies are more vulnerable to that threat, long time no comment from me 😂😂
@@hashemali4750 haha 😂 good to see you again on the channel! Anyway Shedler perspective doesn't surprise me and I fully agree given the idiosyncratic nature of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Thank you and have a great day!
As a computer scientist working in the industry I was amazed you even considered substituting human psychotherapy for AI-therapist. Seeing AI developments in last two years I thought of human psychoterapy as the safest job (least replacible) you could imagine.
Thank you for your comment. I wouldn't personally advise AI therapy at present or in the forseeable futur at it has many many flaws. But AI is the catalyst of numerous fantasies of people including replacing therapy. Even if I remain skeptical about the potential of AI to someday provide same process as a human. I do think people involved with it may try. Anyway thanks again and have a great day!
Everything you say is true and meaningful AI therapy is likely many decades away.
But it has enticing potential also - AI learned to model human speech by analyzing exorbitant amounts of natural language, not by reading a dictionary. To an AI, words exist as clouds of weighted potentials, reminiscent of the symbols in our minds.
This makes me somewhat hopeful, that at some point, much more advanced systems, might be able to model the psycho-dynamic origins of our emotions instead of language. Provided we find a way to feed it millions of hours of recorded therapy sessions as training data.
And, like you said - to be of any therapeutic use, these systems need to provide the possibility for human attachment. But I don't think that's impossible. Our experience already taught us to trust computer records more than our own memory. If, one day, we find ourselves surrounded by AI assistants that demonstrate insight and benevolence , we will learn to trust them too.
Thank you for your comment. It is completely possible that AI will eventually be capable of such a feet as doing psychodynamic therapy but I do think that it would be very different from the way we do it now as there is creativity in human minds that is idiosyncratic and highly personal as such AI wouldn't be able to achieve that. I believe however that it will know infinitely more that any human and as such might come to more 'complete' approach ( integrating psychoanalysis, psychology, medicine, anthropology... into a coherent whole). And also we would need to fix the 'hallucination' issue. But I guess only the future will tell for sure. Anyway thanks for your comment and have a great day.
By the way Johnathan shedler the well known psycho dynamic therapist and researcher said that psychoanalysis is the most immune therapeutic modality to being replaced by Ai, and that cbt and other skills training therapies are more vulnerable to that threat, long time no comment from me 😂😂
@@hashemali4750 haha 😂 good to see you again on the channel! Anyway Shedler perspective doesn't surprise me and I fully agree given the idiosyncratic nature of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Thank you and have a great day!