Bebo@literature.cafe to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardianwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-link‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardianwww.theguardian.comBebo@literature.cafe to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square46fedilinkfile-text
It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?
minus-squarekromem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoIt’s not ‘programmed’ at all.
minus-squareMastengwe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoSo… AI…. created itself?
minus-squarekromem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoPretty much. What’s programmed is the mechanism for the model to self-supervise weighting its neural network to correctly model the training data. We have next to no idea what the eventual network does in modern language models, and it certainly isn’t programmed.
It’s not ‘programmed’ at all.
So… AI…. created itself?
Pretty much. What’s programmed is the mechanism for the model to self-supervise weighting its neural network to correctly model the training data.
We have next to no idea what the eventual network does in modern language models, and it certainly isn’t programmed.