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Business idea: Machine learning drives a realistic video and audio avatar of a human therapist to ask occasional "How does that make you feel" type questions.

As part of the session the therapist asks you to rate a few different categories of your mental life (e.g. "How content are you with your life/relationships/family/future on a scale of 1 to 5?) The ratings then can be used for data to develop better questions and techniques and marketing claims (people with 1 or more Virtual Therapy seasons a week experience an X% improvement in indicators of mental health).

Subscription model: 10 bucks a month gets two one hour virtual therapy sessions a week.



This concept is explored in ELIZA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_(video_game)






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