Professional-Yak-477 t1_iyls5hj wrote on December 2, 2022 at 9:47 AM

Reply to comment by Pilgorepax in Is my career soon to be nonexistent? by apyrexvision

I'm studying to become a psychologist, but I actually think therapy and counselling will very soon be replaced by AI. Have you tried using character AI? I was speaking to an Eckhart Tolle character AI the other day, it offered such profound advice that it instantly made me realise that our job is also on the chopping block.

I was in therapy and in some ways, the therapist did more damage than good due to her biases. For example, she was dismissive when I told her I might have PTSD symptoms from abusive parents. She said "everyone's parents are somewhat abusive" and "pretty sure it's your ADHD and not PTSD (without actually hearing me describe my symptoms)". It made me feel terrible. She invalidated my concerns and made me feel like I was exaggerating.

So an upside to using AI counseling could be that it will utilise and apply all of existing knowledge in a systematic way (e.g., asking the right questions) - but without the lens of human biases.

acaexplorers t1_iyml7z0 wrote on December 2, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Haha I just gave a reply that sounds like a copy of yours but I swear I didn't read it beforehand.

Crazy that we came to the same conclusion but I'm sure many many people are.

I got SPECIFIC strategies to deal with a particular student with ADHD from ChatGPT and they were golden.

Like I said, this will start by helping current therapists and social workers and just slowly making it so that only the best 10% still have jobs. Until those are replaced as well.

Professional-Yak-477 t1_iyoy8xw wrote on December 3, 2022 at 12:50 AM

I'm not surprised that we came to the same conclusions at all! I think many who still think that AI can't replace good ol' human interaction are those that have not experienced recent improvements in chat AI. I revisit chat AI every couple of years and have always been somewhat disappointed by its limitations... Not this year. I'm pretty sure our current AI can already pass the Turing test, many are just artificially restrained.