It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?

    • @kromem@lemmy.world
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      110 months ago

      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.