{"id":105036,"date":"2018-02-15T15:44:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105036"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:39:42","slug":"would-you-open-up-to-ai-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/would-you-open-up-to-ai-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you open up to an AI Therapist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97764\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W9.V4.news3_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W9.V4.news3_.jpg 540w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W9.V4.news3_-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/TA.EN_.W9.V4.news3_-304x170.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/02\/22\/worlds-first-ai-therapist\/#B6lDqzQ5e5qN\">Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With therapists charging by the hour for long rambling conversations about how who you were effects who you are and AI text bots desperate for the human interaction, they need to learn <strong>it was only a matter of time before an AI therapist hit the scene<\/strong>. Meet T.E.V.I, the Textpert Empathetic Virtual Interface, currently being developed by a team of UCLA researchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tevi has a simple text-based interface<\/strong>. You type in your query and then Tevi responds by giving you different results and trying to <strong>classify your query relating to relationships, socializing, health, dating, or other topics<\/strong>. You can also ask Tevi to talk to you and offer some thoughts on your query.<\/p>\n<p>Tevi should be able to participate in full conversations <strong>by the end of 2018 and will cost $9.99 a month<\/strong>, which is a lot less than a human therapist would cost. Do you think Tevi could help? <strong>Would you tell an AI robot all of your problems?<\/strong> Tell us what you think in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mashable With therapists charging by the hour for long rambling conversations about how who you were effects who you are and AI text bots desperate for the human interaction, they need to learn it was only a matter of time before an AI therapist hit the scene. Meet T.E.V.I, the Textpert Empathetic Virtual Interface, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/would-you-open-up-to-ai-therapist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Would you open up to an AI Therapist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1028],"usertag":[781],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-health","usertag-purchaser"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328280,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105036\/revisions\/328280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105036"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105036"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105036"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}