Can A.I.-Driven Voice Analysis Help Identify Mental Disorders? (Published 2022)

What counts, though, isn’t that the therapist has developed an accurate diagnosis but that the patient is allowed to recognize it for themselves, by a process of carefully designed prompts, in a way that they can absorb without fear, in their own time. That is why therapists tend to proceed via gentle questions—“I wonder how it felt when Mom went a

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Tyler Cowen:   I don't think most people want a better therapist.  That's part of the issue: what role do therapists serve? You want it to be somewhat scarce. You don't want it to be available at your fingertips. You want to lie to it to some extent. You want it, maybe, to be reassuring in a particular way with just enough challenge inje

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