How Do You Teach an AI Model to Give Therapy? – MIT Technology Review

Read article - Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in an article about the process of developing Therabot. The model initially learned from conversations on forums between people discussing their mental health crises and was not successful so the team turned to transcripts of therapy sessions. "This is actually how a lot of psychotherapists are trained," Jacobson said.