Dr. Alison Darcy

So it's their brief, very brief encounters, six and a half minutes is the average length of time.

And...

about 75 to 80 percent of all of those conversations are happening outside of clinic hours.

The longest conversations people have are between 2 and 5 a.m.

Yeah.

And is Wobat good for role play?

Actually,

We have found that generative AI, so Wobot was built to be rules-based.

Everything Wobot says has been scripted by our writing team and under the supervision of clinical psychologists.

And so Wobot will never, it's very safe, it's on the rails.

Wobot will never make up something new.

Fantastic.

But we have been exploring the generative models, and it turns out generative AI is really good for role plays.

Yeah.

And it kind of speaks to some of the advantages that AIs have in that they're really good at doing the stuff that

humans aren't so great at.

And I think role plays are one of those things, for sure.

Do people disclose more quickly with an AI than they would with a person?

Yeah, so that was shown in an early study in about 2015, I believe, that people would rather disclose to an AI than when they believe there's a human behind that.

And that's particularly pronounced for things that are perceived as very stigmatized