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Increasingly people confess their deepest psychological problems to artificial intelligence instead of a human psychotherapist. While I don’t think AI will fully replace human psychotherapists in in the near future, ever since Weizenbaum in 1964 created the psychotherapy program “Eliza”, people discuss issues about their inner self with seemingly ever more intelligent AI. My co-author Marc Schreiber and I just finished a short book for the Springer Essentials series discussing the role of AI for different aspects of psychology (in German). As ChatGPT is capable of leading increasingly sophisticated dialogs about basically any topic , we decided to let it rewrite our book, using the same chapter structure as the Springer book, but all content written by ChatGPT. Here is the l ink to the formatted book rewritten by ChatGPT , as well as the transcript of our dialog with ChatGPT , both in German, as well as the translation to English by Deepl of the ChatGPT book. On a side note, as Sp...

by Ernesto Strazza This post is based on a class project done for the 2013 COINs Seminar What do the Web and Twitter tell us about mental conditions and problems? How are the basic ideas related, and what is their context?  What are some key institutions and organizations?  The results shows that "self esteem" and "depression" tend to be away from each other. Causes and effects of related mental conditions seem to be closer to "depression" and isolated from "self esteem." With the addition of the concept "drug", the relation between "self esteem" and "depression" becomes stronger and more connected.  The second part of the study shows that  "fame" increases the influence of the concepts "drug" and "self esteem." Objectives: - Find relations  and interaction between psychological concepts and conditions. - Discover how  those concepts relate (link) and aggregate on the Web....