Until I read Faking It by Toby Walsh, I thought that I worked in a field that was unlikely to be taken over by artificial intelligence. Wrong! Weizenbaum created a system in 1967 called ELIZA, which he intended to be a parody of a psychotherapist – others saw it as having real, clinical application. And fast-forward to 2015, when a chatbot known as Karim was used as a ‘therapeutic assistant’ to help refugees in Germany manage traumatic stress. Continue reading →