FRIDAY HEALTH REPORT: Scientists say AI mimicking emotions could be a low-risk way to test mental health theories

FRIDAY HEALTH REPORT: Scientists say AI mimicking emotions could be a low-risk way to test mental health theories

A new study suggests AI models can imitate human emotional patterns when given emotion-based prompts.Researchers at TU Dresden University of Technology tested several large language models, which are computer programs like ChatGPT that are trained to generate human-like responses.They found that prompts designed to induce fear, anxiety, anger, disgust, sadness, worry and stress caused most AIs to rate those emotional states higher on a scale of …