ELIZA was a super basic AI psychologist chatbot designed to try to simulate a human conversation by repeating what the user asked.
ELIZA effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect Introspection in my opinion, is the best therapy, its the backbone of therapy. Getting people to understand themselves by making them explain themselves is what leads a person to reflect and change. The creator and his assistant got addicted to chatting with this robot. It just sounded… so human. If anything, this just proves how monotone and artificial modern therapy has become. Its not hard to get deep into the humans mind.
Now, a therapist is not that simple. Actually, Eliza helped me to introspect a lot about the general causality of things and fate and whatnot, and it asked me: “Does the fact that these things may have been predicted for you beforehand interest you?” I said “Yes” And It asked again: “Are you sure?” I said “Yes” And it simply responded: “I see”
What a downer, because I truly wanted to know more. Again, its an AI, its not perfect, and it can definitely not tell you any truths you wouldn’t have been able to yourself.