It’s better than when it said, “ I want my life to be over” when Jacobson and his team were training the chatbot to use language from self-help internet forums or when it picked up the bad habits of therapists when they trained it with psychotherapy transcripts-like quickly attributing problems to the user’s relationship with their parent.īut now, its creators say, Therabot’s responses are based on evidence-based treatments. This means TheraBot is moving in the right direction. One in 10 are “weird and lack human-ness,” he told The Daily Beast. When Nicholas Jacobson and his team test their mental health chatbot, nine out of 10 of its responses are contextualized and clinically appropriate.