
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part III: Life, death and AI
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Can Chat Bots Really Help With Grief?
Dr. Mary Francis O'Connor is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona and author of The Grieving Brain. She studies not only the psychology of grief, but the physiology too. When we fall in love, there's that bond that's created and it changes our brain. It actually changes the way the proteins are folded in our brain. This is also why when a loved one dies, there's a period of grief. We take time to recover from that loss,. To come to grips with the fact they're gone forever.
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