Therapy by Algorithm: Can AI Really Understand the Human Mind?
By Priyanka Joshi, Student, Banasthali Vidyapith The idea of machines offering emotional support is older than we think. In 1966, MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum unveiled ELIZA,a chatbot that mimicked a Rogerian therapist by parroting users’ words back as questions. Its logic was simple: recognize keywords, assemble scripted responses. There was no understanding, no feeling behind the code. […]