Microsoft patents AI therapist for emotional support

Microsoft’s latest patent application dated November 7 this year, has in tech giant Based in Redmond and providing therapeutic treatment in one application.

Essentially, it creates a user profile based on the emotional cues extracted from the images and then generates a memory entry based on the images and the profile.

AI therapist capabilities:

• Emotional impulse: The AI ​​therapist is here to offer personalized emotional support.
• User Profiles: Create user profiles based on emotional cues in images for a more personalized experience.
• Super Chatbot: Our AI is not your average therapeutic chatbot; Has a chat window, a processing module and a response database.
• All in one: The chatbot can do everything: answer questions, read emotions, save user information, and even conduct psychological tests.
• Chat options: Users can communicate with the bot using text, voice, or images for a full conversation.
• Telepath: AI can conduct psychological tests based on how users react and feel.

In its demo, Microsoft details some of the device’s capabilities. chatbot and how it works. It has a chat window, a processing engine, and a database of responses—more than any “regular” AI therapy chatbot.

And that is not all. It also has modules for answering questions, analyzing emotions, creating memories, testing users, and storing user information.

“Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is becoming increasingly popular and is being used in more and more scenarios. The chatbot is designed to emulate human conversation and can communicate with users through text, voice, images, etc.,” Microsoft said in its presentation.

Interestingly, this chatbot can conduct psychological tests on users, both by explicitly asking them questions and by implicitly monitoring their responses and using this information to provide feedback.

This process also performs an implicit psychological test and can be triggered based on the user’s current emotional state, the content of their current session, or other factors.

Therefore, when activated, it selects suitable psychological questions for the test based on the current session and knowledge graph.

It’s a lot, but you can check out this patent application at the US Patent and Trademark Office right here.