ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence & Mental Health

Human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI) recently took another step into the future. OpenAI's ChatGPT has swept headlines and captivated nearly 500 million users, since its November 2022 launch.1,2 Psychiatry is no stranger to HCI. ELIZA, a computer program created by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT in the 1960s, introduced how simple communication patterns provided by artificial means can illicit very real human emotion. Although our lifestyle has evolved drastically, the fundamental structure of our brains is quite like those of our ancestors 200,000 years ago.