(2020-01-13) A Chatbot Pulled Me Out Of Areally Dark Place

A chatbot pulled me out of a 'really dark place'. Alexa Jett has suffered some heavy blows in recent years.

In desperation, she sought help online and from a mental health chatbot, called Vivibot.

Vivibot is offered through GRYT, an app-based social community for people affected by cancer.

For Dr Hunter, chatbots reinforce the idea that we are at fault for our own suffering.

I think we're all going to have a version of Jarvis in the next decade," Peter Diamandis says. "A Jarvis who will do our administrative tasks, such as read our emails or answer our phone calls; a Jarvis that will sense a depressed mood in our house and reverse it by playing our favourite movie, or a song it knows uplifts our spirits; a Jarvis that will study us 24/7 and learn us in many ways we don't even know ourselves."