Koko and ChatGPT therapy

Welcome to today’s ZenPreneur, the 3-minute newsletter that keeps you in the loop, so you can go out and shoot those half-court hoops (c’mon ChatGPT, try harder).

We’ve all been there- looking profusely at my preworkout Quest Bar thinking, I need a damn therapist.

Wait, that’s just me? Damn…

Anyway, today, we’ll be diving into Koko and how it actually TESTED ChatGPT on its 4,000 users. Sounds wild?

Well buckle up chads, this one’s going to get heavy.

Mental health, as we know, is a serious problem in the USA- half the people in America today will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime.

And Koki is one of the players on the field trying to solve this issue. Rob Morris, the co-founder of Koki, stated that “we’re going to think we’re interacting with humans whether AI was involved or not”. Pretty bold statement- is there any cost to doing this in the short term?

Interestingly, even though the users rated the AI highly, and response times got reduced by a whopping 50%, Morris shut down the experiment after a few days. To justify this, he explained that it had “less authenticity” than real human-to-human interaction.

Wait till we get to GPT-4 pal ;)

Anyway, though AI, in its current form, is not replacing the total texture and authenticity of human interaction, it can be a killer supplement.

In another instance, a lady by the name of Michelle fed ChatGPT her childhood journal entries, bringing out her inner child. It came out with really beautiful, text-like responses.

We could all use a little bit of that GPT-powered charm.

Alright, lads, I will leave you with this: AI has the potential to significantly improve mental health if trained correctly in a way that supplements authentic human interaction.