[HuggyBear]

I found a guy who says that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is great to help people with mental health issues.

You "talk" with an AI thing and it would help you.

Where is empathy?

An AI algorithm can't be emphatic.

In my own experience of escape from depression, I think that I have been lucky because I met psychologists who believed in me and felt my pain.

I don't think that a robot could really have helped me because it can't ever understand my pain and can't share the experience of being human with me.

What do you think?

Has anyone here got any help from AI things?

The guy I was talking about above is "happy" with doing without empathy. Maybe money killed his empathy.

Is this killing empathy actually *the* problem modern society suffers from? Or is it OK?

With a lot of empathy and love...

[12AM]

I don’t think empathy can be killed. It’s whether you have have it or you don’t. I think AI can help people to some extent though. Have you ever heard a therapy application called Woebot? That app teaches you about the basic of CBT so that you can rationalize your symptoms and gives you direction about what you should do when your symptoms are flaring up. I do believe though, rational thought alone won’t really help me. Most of time when I’m having an episode, I don’t need all logic about this and that. I need a hug. I need an empathy.

[possum220]

Originally Posted by HuggyBear

I found a guy who says that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is great to help people with mental health issues.

Nope nope nope. How is this a great help? How can a robot truly relate to human suffering? It can't. Using AI further increases a person sense of isolation. If this guy who says that AI is a great help to people with mental health issues could please provide the evidence I might think about it. I dont think that anybody can kill empathy. It's either there or not.

[Fuzzybear]

I agree... that empathy is either there.. or it isn’t.

Thanks for sharing

[MickeyCheeky]

Yeah, I don't think an AI is capable of recreating human empathy and love. So I'd stick with real people

[-jimi-]

I think AI shows more empathy than the therapists I had.

[saidso]

Actually that's a mega interesting thought Jimi.
I've sometimes considered that psychotherapists in my area might be computer-programmed AIs. They seem to come out of the same local 3 year training with identical profile information and stock responses. Few exceptions.
I've learned not to expect open-mindedness or curiosity. And that's not meaness, but voice of my true experience.
Many people in my local area act like they have been programmed by some higher artificial intelligence, not only therapists.