If you haven't read Frederik Pohl's
Gateway (1977) I can recommend it as one of the best science-fiction novels ever. It won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Locus Award and the John W. Campbell Award (
CLICK). Part of the story is recounted by the protagonist to an Artificial Intelligence Freudian therapist program he nicknames Sigfrid von Shrink. Whenever I see the latest attempts at AI psychotherapy, I think of Gateway. Here is
Elle Virtual Shrink, a computer-generated image created by the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). She will be a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder when she is ready to go solo (
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2 Comments:
Weren't they going to do something like that with the NHS? You had to skype in your complaint. Stupid.
It's called NHS Direct:
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
Great for hypocondriacs! They can visit every time they sneeze.
The virtual shrink is totally different. It works, but needs refining.
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