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AI Therapy Bot

1•FDX2018•1h ago
I am building a therapy bot and I need help with developing it

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FDX2018•1h ago
I need a team of coders to help me build the bot and I am building a focus group of mental health experts (therapists and psychology grads) to help me fine tune the bot to medical perfection
SamInTheShell•1h ago
This is one of the more concerning LLM use cases I would say is not a good idea. Most LLMs I’ve tested have the DSM-5 and other psych texts baked in. The problem I see with the idea is that they can’t proof their results. These inference engines can do sentiment analysis, which opens up a really good tooling opportunity for aiding a trained professional. What I see being problem though is that it’s too easy for a lay person to taint the context in ways the LLM can’t recover from. Also an LLM will have a really hard time calling someone out if they are blatantly lying to it.
incomingpain•54m ago
>I am building a therapy bot and I need help with developing it

Best of luck, no doubt something needed. Many other big teams working on it.

Check out: https://developers.google.com/health-ai-developer-foundation...

Or you can look chatgpt and their 'safety' stuff around people using chatgpt for therapy and friendship.

There's obviously many literal therapy bots: https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIoa2400802

https://www.trytherabot.com/ is the above one that's funded by microsoft.

Personally? I wouldnt even consider trying to go down this path to compete against these folks.

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