I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Cossty@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I know it's not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?

You might think this is a stupid and irrational question. "There is no way AI will do psychology well, ever." But I think in today's day and age it's pretty fair to ask when you are deciding about your future.

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[-] dog@suppo.fi 1 points 11 months ago

Eh, I give it 5 years.

Never say never, because everything is possible given enough time. The only question being how much time.

[-] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

you are being wildly optimistic. AI confidently lies to you about purely objective things such as asking it to write a program and it confidently writes it wrong and tells you that it is correct over and over. Something like psychology and mental health is far from objective and is constantly evolving, and also differs from person to person based on a gazillion different variables, the most important of them being emotion, something a robot will most likely never have. Even some living animals do not have a wide range of emotions such as snakes that only feel fear and anger, they don't feel sadness or happiness or anything. What would make you think that artificially created robots would have enough emotional intelligence to replace human psychologists within 5 years?

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