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ChatGPT recently passed the Turing Test, showing it’s hard to distinguish between human therapists and AI.
ChatGPT surpassed human therapists on a variety of measures.
ChatGPT reminds therapists how to improve their therapeutic work.
Research on "supershrinks" shows a remarkable parallel to what ChatGPT therapists do best.
If your therapist is staring off into space and mixing up your boyfriend’s name with your cat, be kind. Odds are, they’re still processing the news that artificial intelligence is replacing them. Or at least, that’s how this news makes them feel. Source: Gerd Leonhard/Wikimedia Commons Stabbed in the back, punched in the gut, few words describe being outperformed by an algorithm. But this is just what artificial intelligence is starting to do.
Last week, ChatGPT passed the Turing Test, a measure of whether humans can detect if they’re talking to a sentient creature or merely a machine. Turns out, it comes down to pretty much a simple coin toss.
Research by PLOS Mental Health found that participants were only slightly better than chance at detecting whether they were conversing with an actual therapist or ChatGPT, correctly identifying ChatGPT therapists 51 percent of the time and human therapists 56 percent of the time.
No matter how many hearts you’ve stitched back up, your clients won’t notice or care if you’re in the room or not. It’s pretty depressing for those in the Hope business. But there’s more, and maybe you should sit down for this one.Subjects found ChatGPT to be a better therapist when it came to the strength of their relationship alliance, their emotional sensitivity, and even their cultural competency with subjects. ChatGPT took greater time and care than its human counterparts, offering more encouraging and elaborated responses, brimming with nouns and verbs. It helped participants tell a richer, fuller story of themselves.This research echoes an Australian study that found ChatGPT offered more balanced, thorough, and emotionally clued-in advice on social dilemmas compared to human advice columnists. So no matter how much it hurts, this isn’t an anomaly, and it’s just the beginning.But, even though my job seems on […]
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