Comment by michaelhoney

But a sufficiently advanced LLM could do all of those things, and furthermore it could do it at a fraction of the cost with 24/7 availability. A not-bad therapist you can talk to _right now_ is better than one which you might get 30 minutes with in a month, if you have the money.

Is a mid-2025 off-the-shelf LLM great at this? No.

But it is pretty good, and it's not going to stop improving. The set of human problems that an LLM can effectively help with is only going to grow.