Artificial Intelligence?

It seems to be everywhere, and people are using it for so much. We worried about robots taking over the world and never thought that artificial intelligence would instead!

I just read about another Artificial Intelligence (AI) company offering “therapy”, which I think cannot offer an interpersonal relationship cause there’s no “personal” in Artificial.

Then I wonder, how did this start? Is an AI therapist worried if it’s doing a good job or not? Is it tired at the end of the day? Does it share in some of the pains its patients are going through because it has had similar experiences or knows someone who has? When it talks about death does it worry about its own?

I was taught that relationships can be therapeutic just by themselves. A good friend or a neighbor can offer insight, advice and support. One of the reasons is because friends and neighbors can understand what it’s like to be human, to be unsure, to have been an adolescent, to have lost in love. That’s different from what you get from a psychotherapist but still can be super helpful.

On the other hand, maybe we don’t relate to other humans as much anymore. We live such sheltered and removed kinds of lives, working from home, looking at things online that have been offered to us because we looked at something like it before. And now some AI algorithm decides to bombard us with more of that kind of thing and doesn’t show us any other things.

I think life is about curves and rounds, not squares and edges. Humans are about curves and rounds. AI somehow takes away the mystery and the magic and makes everything grey and square.

What do you think?