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AI language model ChatGPT caught the world's attention last year when it was launched by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. And new studies have revealed that it can generate personalised narratives based on stream-of-consciousness thoughts, according to IANS.

Research in the past claimed that such personal narratives (stories we tell ourselves) play an important role in making sense of the past and the current scenario. By reworking these narratives, trainers guide patients to improve their thoughts and behaviour.

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To dig deeper, researchers at the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania experimented with ChatGPT-4's ability to generate such personal narratives. The study discovered that responses generated by the model received a positive response from 25 (out of 26) people who termed them accurate.

The research can be considered "exploratory." (Image:Pexels)

Out of the total, 19 marked the narratives as surprising, and 19 discovered something new from the output. "This is a rare moment in the history of scientific psychology: Artificial intelligence now promises much more effective psychotherapy and coaching," said Psychology Professor Martin Seligman and Director of the Positive Psychology Center.

ChatGPT was fed with recorded stream-of-consciousness thoughts as inputs, similar to diary entries. In another study in The Journal of Positive Psychology, the researchers entered five narratives as inputs and asked for intervention for coaching strategies. "Since coaching and therapy typically involve a great deal of initial time spent fleshing out such an identity, deriving this automatically from 50 thoughts represents a major savings," IANS, citing the researchers, reported.

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The team concluded that ChatGPT can generate accurate personal and detailed narratives with just 50 stream-of-consciousness thoughts and demographic data. "This could be a tool for helping people gain self-insight. We see this as something that can be used in the therapeutic context, not as something that would replace a therapist," the researchers stated.

However, the research can still be considered "exploratory." But considering the results, there is still room for exploration and its deployment with trainers.