Comment by foobarchu
8 days ago
The LLM will never be there for you, that's one of the flaws in trying to substitute it for a human relationship. The LLM is "available" 24/7.
This is not splitting hairs, because "being there" is a very well defined thing in this context.
A therapist isn't 'there for you'.
He or she has a daily list if clients, ten mins before they will brush up on someone they doesn't remember since last week. And it's isn't in their financial interest to fix you.
And human intelligence and life experience isn't distributed equally, many therapists have passed the training but are not very good.
Same way lots of Devs with a degree aren't very good.
Llms are not there yet but if keep developing could become excellent, and will be consistent. Lots already talk to ChatGPT orally.
The big if, is whether the patient is willing to accept a non human.
There is no human relationship between you and your therapist, business relationship only.